Nearly 9-in-10 smartphone owners have used their phones in the past 30 days to perform a real-time query. (via Just-In-Time Information Through …

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Bitly, the URL shortener of choice for most people, has analyzed its click-tracking data to find the optimal days and times for posting links to social media. The results show interesting, distinct patterns among Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. On… …

“Young reporters tend to think they need a byline from The New York Times to make a difference in the world. If they really want to have an impact, get a job with a community paper, and start asking the tough questions that no one ever asked before.” - Samantha Swindler, managing editor of the Corbin (Ky.) Times-Tribune, explaining  …

Emerging evidence suggests the sudden decline in usage of Facebook news apps is a symptom of the social network’s varied experiments in promoting reading activity in users’ main News Feeds. On Monday I questioned …

Something strange is happening in the world of Facebook’s frictionless sharing apps. News apps that automatically share a user’s reading activity with their friends lost huge amounts of active users in April, according to AppData.com tracking. Forbes’ Jeff Bercovici first… …

Technology Review Jason Pontin’s latest column is perhaps the most simultaneously complete and concise summary of publishers’ disappointment with mobile apps. When Apple released the iPad in April 2010, the Tec …

“We’re switching to Facebook comments because building or maintaining our own system does not seem like a good use of our company resources and because we believe fixed identities will make the comment threads more civilized, engaging and less threatened by marauding trolls and bad (comment) actors.” - Josh Marshall,  …

comScore New research from comScore shows that “while political blogs and sites may attract a good amount of visitors from across party lines, they are still more likely to regularly engage visitors who share the same views.” Among the sites… …

New York Times Buzz Bissinger’s e-book sequel to “Friday Night Lights” was suddenly pulled from Amazon, David …

Rapid changes in digital journalism and its audiences have inspired a lot of research. Much of that research measures how much things have changed, or describes the latest state of affairs …

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“Social media platforms are like different countries with different languages and different customs. Certainly there are many aspects of them that overlap, but I think the key to being successful on a social platform is having a keen understanding of what makes each unique community tick. For instance, Tumblr thrives on strong visual material; Reddit is grea …

One of 12 New Yorker covers you were never meant to see. “Zohar Lazar’s image of gay U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan kissing can be seen as either a celebration of tolerance in a repressive place or an example of America imposing …

“The fact that the president is now incorporating hashtags into his speeches shows how Twitter is redefining the means by which politicians shape, distribute and refine their messages.” - Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campaigns - The Washingt …

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“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” - Former Facebook employee Jeff Hammerbacher, in This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek …