How many blogs does it take to have the impact of a newspaper?
Dave Pollard makes a very rough numerical comparison of bloggers with mainstream media outlets. It’s a brave effort but it’s clearly impossible to compare newspapers and blogs - not just because the texts tend to be different sizes but because they are likely to be consumed (and produced) with such different motivations and under such different circumstances.
It does hammer home though just how limited our knowledge is of the micro-detail of how blogs are consumed compared with the detailed knowledge we have of who watches what TV programmes when and how. It’s a pity more of the large weblogs don’t provide details of their traffic as boingboing does.
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April 24th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Not often that I disagree, David
I think it is an issue of different metrics which are however reconciliable. How do you maseure how many people read a story in a paper anyway, or how many pay attention to a specific items of news on the tellie? How many read online nespapwers, and how? It is a matter of finding the propoer unit of analysis I reckon, which will need to respond to the requirments of different research questions and designs. But I would nbot say they are irreconciliable a priori. It will be chaklengin to find such units and questions though: anyone here wanting to discuss?
[and one problem you are right is: bloggers preach for transparency but are way more opaque then they're ready to admit.]
April 24th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
I think I half agree with you, Wainer - it may be possible to compare blogs to newspapers in terms of impact but only in a very particular context for a particular purpose or research question - not ‘globally’.
April 27th, 2005 at 9:44 am
I sort of half-agreed with the original post, but was in a hurry ;), Which you can tell from the numberof mistakes and non-split infinitives in the message. I certainly fully agree with your comment.