Afrigator

TweetAfrigator is an African social media aggregator. The site also gives an idea of the current distribution of bloggers in the continent: * South Africa 1055 blogs * Kenya 124 blogs * Africa General 108 blogs * Nigeria 93 blogs

Long tails and fat cats: Social networks and inequality

TweetI’ve been fascinated by the idea of the “long tail” and online media for about a year now. The long tail is a distribution graph. For example, you might graph the number of blog readers for each blog, and arrange them in descending order of popularity – you’d find that a small number of blogs [...]

Blogging Beyond the Men’s Club

TweetSince anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males? By Steven Levy Newsweek March 21 issue – At a recent Harvard conference on bloggers and the media, the most pungent statement came from cyberspace. Rebecca MacKinnon, writing about the conference as it happened, got a response on the “comments” space [...]

Bloggers are trusted least as news sources, but youth prefer online sources

TweetPoll ranks the Internet and blogs at the bottom among news media. May 4, 2006 Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London. The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the BBC-Reuters-Media Center “We Media” Forum and released [...]