Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News Source: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. More Young People Cite Internet than TV Overview The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely used source for national and international news – 66% of Americans say it is their main source of news – but that is down from 74% three years ago and 82% as recently as 2002.
The national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Dec. 1-5, 2010 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that more people continue to cite the internet than newspapers as their main source of news, reflecting both the growth of the internet, and the gradual decline in newspaper readership (from 34% in 2007 to 31% now). TV News Still Dominates Among Less Educated. Who Looks for News Online and on TV? Television has long been the primary source of news for all Americans, but for the first time, young adults have changed that trend.
Consumers ages 18 to 29 now say that the internet is their primary source of national and international news, according to The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Overall, the internet remains in the No. 2 position behind television, though several factors will continue to propel it to the top spot. For one, the internet offers an infinitely more diverse array of viewpoints than any other form of media. Additionally, that content is always-on and, therefore, always available at the demand of the consumer. The growth of broadband is also resulting in the rise of the internet as not just a text-based medium, but a complete multimedia platform.
Newspapers have suffered the heaviest decline in influence due to the internet, but television has been steadily eroding as well, most notably for Americans ages 49 and under. Rebooting Web Publishing Design. Let’s start by reviewing the basic ingredients of a successful online publishing operation: 1 / Quick load. 2 / Ease of operation and update 3 / Consistent visual identity 4 / Platform independence 5 / Open to the rest of the web 6 / Geared for transactions 7 / CRM and marketing-friendly Why am I scrutinizing this?
Because we are not there yet. But stay tuned: the future looks bright, it’s called HyperText Markup Language version 5, in short HTML5. (No worries, no program code in this column, just a few ruminations). Back to our list: 1 / Quickly loading contents. 2 / Smooth Operation. 3 / Visual ID. 4 / Platform independence. Combine all of the above, multiply the number of versions — either functional upgrades or bugs fixes — divide by market reach, apply monetization parameters and you get an idea of e-publishing’s hurdles. 5 / Openness. 6/ The transaction issue. 7/ CRM. For most of the requirements in our list, HTML5 looks promising.
—frederic.filloux@mondaynote.com. 10 Chrome Web Apps to Check Out. 25 reasons why I'll leave your website in 10 seconds. What makes people press the back button, shortly after visiting your website? Why do they bail out so quickly? And what can you do about it? I’ve been thinking about this and realised that there are many more negative factors than I’d originally anticipated. Taken at individual level some of these factors might not be enough to make visitors back out, but when combined together they may give off entirely the wrong impression. It’s not easy to create a beautiful, brilliant user experience, and the reality is that most sites have issues of one kind or another. But keep an eye open for the following – often avoidable – negative factors and try to eliminate them, to create a stickier website for users. Let’s start with the truly horrific… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. There are all kinds of other factors as to why people will leave a website before they've really visited it.