Blogging
Ben Smith, Buzzfeedās editor in chief [http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/this-is-my-blog]: > Indeed, the strongest new news outlets and the most nimble elements of the old ones have also co-opted and professionalized the tools and ethos of bloggers ā fast, direct publishing; an informal voice; a commitment to transparency.
Buzzfeed
Thereās a rather famous graph of Buzzfeedās traffic kicking around. Iāve used it a bunch of times in lectures and training, and it looks like this: Thereās a crucial point where the Google referral traffic drops sharply for a while. Jonah Peretti, Buzzfeed founder and CEO,
analytics
Dan Barkerās been poking at the tracking javascript on Buzzfeed, and found some very interesting data being captured from quizzes [http://barker.co.uk/buzzfeediswatching]: > In other words, if I had access to the BuzzFeed Google Analytics data, I could query data for people who got to the
advertising
Copyranter on Buzzfeedās flavour of native advertising [http://copyranter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/buzzfeeds-native-advertising-is-nothing.html] : > In an interview with Wired last February, Peretti spouted [http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/02/features/buzzfeed] about how they ālabel everything really maniacallyā (How does one label an
Buzzfeed
Interesting interview with Jonah Peretti, the founder of Buzzfeed. Heās somewhat guarded, as you might expect, but what he does say is interestingā¦ [hat-tip: Alex Watson [https://twitter.com/Sifter/status/468121076531466240]]
Buzzfeed
Charlie Brooker [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/16/five-years-time-news-articles-single-icon-fires-info-nuggets-charlie-brooker?CMP=twt_fd] : > Now, here, in the present day, itās clear the internet wasnāt a fad. More or less everything else was. Newspapers, for instance. They used to be sombre dossiers issued each morning, bringing grave
Buzzfeed
Iāve been watching Buzzfeed UK with interest since Patrick Smith [http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith] jumped ship from The Media Briefing to join them last year. I was curious to see some examples of his journalism filtered through Buzzfeedās style. Hereās a couple of examples: * The Independent
Buzzfeed
Interesting column from John Gapper in the FT today. Here heās talking about Jonah Peretti [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05c084ae-69cc-11e3-89ce-00144feabdc0.html], founder of Buzzfeed: > His insight was that sharing works differently from search. Search is a way to discover information, whereas sharing is prompted by
Buzzfeed
It might be a good time to start culling the politicians you follow on Twitter. Buzzfeedās Jim Waterson explains why Labour spammed its followersā Twitter feeds [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/labour-have-found-a-new-way-of-spamming-everyone] : > Itās an attempt to recreate blanket broadcast-style coverage on Twitter. And if 4.5m people
Buzzfeed
Buzzfeed writer resigns in plagarism shocker [http://www.theonion.com/articles/buzzfeed-writer-resigns-in-disgrace-after-plagiari,32616/] : > The 26-year-old Mills, a once promising young writer in BuzzFeedās Animals division best known for authoring the popular posts āFirst-World Bear Problemsā and āSeal And Owl Are BFFs,ā admitted this week that he copied captions
