We have asked some of our friends and colleagues who attended technology and new media conference South By Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) to share their highlights and takeaways from the conference, which wrapped up earlier this week. Today we share the first part (of four) by guest correspondent Susan Bratton: Susan says: SXSW is “old home […]

Information released this morning by digital measurement company ComScore says that people’s use of mobile devices for accessing news and information on the Internet “more than doubled” from January 2008 – January 2009. Over a third (35 percent, or 22.4 million) of the 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices […]

I’m not a fan of gossip sites, but Perez Hilton is a force of nature to be reckoned with. Yesterday, Perez Hilton (Mario Armando Lavandeira) announced that his site had its busiest day ever – getting an astounding 13.9 million page views in one day. Meanwhile, the Hearst corporation announced huge layoffs at the San […]

Blogging platform Tumblr has added a neat new feature that lets users create audio blog posts via telephone.

Enter their phone number, and messages called in to Tumblr’s toll-free number get posted to your Tumblr blog.

Web-wide business content tracking and programming platform company Attributor has announced the private beta version of FairShare. The program is a free service intended to help help bloggers track their content’s usage throughout the Web – and whether that usage complies with your copyright and licensing requirements. Late last year, Attributor published a report about […]

The biggest new story of the day may be Barack Obama’s Presidential inauguration, but, at least for people interested in new media, the most interesting story of the day may be the introduction of an official White House blog.  Three years ago, we predicted that the next President would be a podcaster, saying: The next […]

The Times Online has an interesting story today about Scottish beer maker Brewdog, looking at how it used blogging to market their beers. Brewdog’s approach was smart and incredibly cheap – give bloggers free beer. Brewdog was struggling to sell its product until its co-founders hit on the idea of using the internet to market […]

Six Apart, the creators of Movable Type, have introduced an add-on that turns Movable Type into a social networking platform.  Motion is a Movable Type application you install and run on your web server. Motion will be freely available in early 2009 for any licensed user of Movable Type Pro.  According to Six Apart, “We looked at […]

Hide the iPhone! Unplug the WiFi hub! A new survey by Intel has found that 46% of women would rather go without sex for two weeks than give up the Internet for that long.  Just when we thought we were getting our sexy back, too.  Here are the bare facts: 46% of women would rather go […]

comScore today released a study of blog traffic in the U.K. that found that 41 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience visited a blog in August. “Blogs have become part of the essential fabric of the Internet today,” said Herve Le Jouan, Managing Director, comScore Europe. “They’re increasingly displacing traditional media usage and carving […]