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15 Vintage Photos of Librarians - Mental Floss
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Everyone Should Read: Game of Thrones by George R Martin
Great book series. I’m on #4
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“Watched my first real Bollywood movie. One of the character’s names was Jai Dixit. Let me know if you want to know how to pronounce it. ”
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The increased use of mobile devices has provided a boost in readers for long-form journalism, according to the State of the News Media in 2012 report released today by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
With Americans now getting their news and information across multiple platforms, data showed that people spend “far more time with news apps on the smartphone and tablet, visit more pages at a sitting, and return more frequently than they do on conventional computers,” the report stated.
But making money to support long-form journalism in newspapers and magazines remains the big challenge:
According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism:
“Magazine publishers’ two main revenue sources remain in print –sales and advertising– and both fell again in 2011. Circulation revenues were lower, as were the number of print ad pages sold. The weak economy and the shift to digital share the blame. So far, most magazines are not capturing enough of the growth in digital to make up for what is disappearing from print. The industry’s digital revenues, while fast growing, are just 5% of the total, lower than in newspapers. (See Newspaper Essay for more) There are exceptions, though, which may point the way for others. Four years after launching an aggressive strategy to prioritize digital, The Atlantic announced that it earned more from digital advertising than print ads in the month of October.
Readers, meanwhile, are migrating fast to digital and mobile, a move that accelerated in 2011 with the explosion of tablets and smartphone ownership. Thanks in part to the popularity of apps such as the Apple Newsstand, which make it easy to find and download magazines and other publications, that acceleration is likely to continue.
As the print world continues to try to figure their way around the money-making muddle, tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are strengthening their footholds in the market:
“…in the last year a small number of technology giants began rapidly moving to consolidate their power by becoming makers of “everything” in our digital lives. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and a few others are maneuvering to make the hardware people use, the operating systems that run those devices, the browsers on which people navigate, the e-mail services on which they communicate, the social networks on which they share and the web platforms on which they shop and play. And all of this will provide these companies with detailed personal data about each consumer.
Already in 2011, five technology companies accounted for 68% of all online ad revenue, and that list does not include Amazon and Apple, which get most of their dollars from transactions, downloads and devices. By 2015, Facebook is expected to account for one out of every five digital display ads sold.1”
Read the full report here:
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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I am watching The Station Agent
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I am watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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I am watching The Walking Dead
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