FAQs About Brand Surveys. What piqued your curiosity this year? As 2012 comes to a close, it's time for our 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist—an in-depth look at the "spirit of the times" as seen through the billions of searches on Google over the past year. On our 2012 Zeitgeist website, you can explore the most popular and hottest trending search terms from around the world. This year’s site is our most global to date, with a total of 838 lists from 55 countries. We’ve also added a number of new features, including an interactive map that shows where and when some of the hottest terms spiked around the world, and a Google Zeitgeist Android app coming out later today (with an iOS version coming soon too).
For a round-the-globe tour through 2012, take a look at our video: So what kinds of things were top of mind this year? Global superstar Whitney Houston topped many countries’ lists as well as three of our overall trending lists—her unexpected death surprising fans around the world. Then there was the superhuman. The newsonomics of going deeper. The news industry appears to be having another one of its Admiral Stockdale moments.
Who am I? Why am I here? From Columbia’s “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” report (“A new Columbia report examines the disrupted news universe”) to information overload, the basic roles of what news companies should do for readers and citizens seem once again at issue. Without debating that here, let me point to one answer very much in formation: Go deeper. It’s a new age, one with great potential to go deeper, broader, and smarter. Going deeper means many things, from national investigative reporting to hyperlocal community info. You’ve read about some of this, with the “Robots Ate My Newspaper” headlines this summer as the Journatic faked-bylines scandal fueled popular dismay.
First: Readers are fast becoming the primary revenue source for newspapers (“The newsonomics of majority reader revenue”). Second: We live in an age of way too much. Third: Creating content is too expensive. More Tweets to discover.
The Social Times - Covering All That's Social on the Web - By the Numbers: Inauguration Day’s Impact on Social Me. Mark Ghuneim, (@mediaeater) is the Founder/CEO of digital marketing agency and technology incubator Wiredset and social media tracking service Trendrr.
Yesterday made history on so many levels to so many people. The ushering in of a new political era, in a peaceful manner has always been a calling card for democracy but never before has it been such a participatory experience. Thanks to the living, breathing web, the inauguration allowed people to share the excitement and historic nature of the experience in real time, whether in Washington or Walla Walla, London or Tokyo. Here are a few quick illustrations of the collective mindshare so many of us were a part of… Twittering The social web flexed its muscle yesterday with Twitter reporting five times the normal tweet volume, and Facebook/CNN showing mind blowing engagement.
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