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The Decline of Citizen Journalism
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by mtippett | January 13, 2008 at 08:21 pm
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I recently revisited the Alexa data on companies and sites
that I used to watch when I first started NP.
It’s interesting to see how the original ‘citizen journalist’ sites like
Slashdot have actually suffered a decline in the wake of the 2.0 revolution.
Of course this decline is more than offset by the successes of newer entrants like Newsvine, Digg, Flickr, Youtube and (I'm relieved to say) NowPublic. But what is interesting is that in spite of having real first-mover advantage none of these innovators have grown over the last 2 years.
NOTE: Alexa is notoriously unreliable as a metric but as they say, in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
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at 21:06 on January 13th, 2008
mtippett, This Alexa site was quite interesting to see the comparisions as well as how Now Public has grown in the last few years, judging by the graphs it certainly shows Now Public is not slowing down. Congrats on your success
at 22:19 on January 13th, 2008
Yeah, Alexa actually doesn't track the NP growth very accurately. Our internal traffic numbers show much more substantial growth over the last year. My experience is that Alexa numbers are pretty solid if you're dealing with sites in the top 100 but otherwise can be subject to the whims of statistical aberration.
at 23:50 on January 13th, 2008
So what's the big deal about Alexa anyway?
at 11:06 on January 14th, 2008
My biggest problem with Alexa is that it bases its numbers on what sites people who have downloaded their Alexa "toolbar" go to. I'm no great statistician (having only earned a "C" in econometrics and every other advanced statistics class I've ever taken) but basing traffic numbers on people who have downloaded your toolbar seems like a biased sample to me.
Oh, and good job with NP.