Kirk Lapointe has some interesting results from a Cornell Study
As for the notion that the blogosphere originates stories that mainstream then adopts, the study found that only 3.5 per cent of stories started in social media.
I’ll buy that. I think what the blogosphere, and especially Twitter, does best is disperse the information. And really, I think that sums up the financial issues the MSM is experiencing right now…
The dollars are in the delivery of the information, not in the information itself.
The only difference between the web and print is that the preferred medium of delivery used to be owned by the same people gathering the facts and writing the stories.
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