The Musings Of A Newman

Want to Twitter from bed .. well feel the twitter love and get a bed like this...

Re-blogged from the Coveted

Ok so it cost me about £100 from Amazon but it's worth the money.. only problem is once you have one you want more and well this could get expensive.... why oh why am I such a gadget hoe...

Here's a thought.... !

I'm just wondering if it would be possible to control the light via my mac seeing as the remote is technically wifi.. I'm thinking how cool would this light be paired with Photoshop talking about living your designs... ummm.

Musing Done

According to an article recently published at Guardian.co.uk Source the ABCe: Mail Online has become the "most popular UK newspaper site", I reckon some of their global traffic is down in part to the spamming of popular social news portals.

Increasingly I've noticed that Diggand Reddit seems to be containing stories from the Mail, so much so it leads me to conclude that someone is doing a brilliant seeding job whether it's a tech savvy employee or a paid for service by one of the millions of seeding/seo partners springing up, I can't tell.

Even this morning in the latest news I can spot 2 articles from The Telegraph, 1 from the BBC and a few others from traditional news sources, are these down to social network links on these sites or auto submission bots?

Screen grab - Digg - Most Recent News - Monday 23/06/08 - 10.15am GMT -

I'm not the only blogger who has noticed this trend, here are a couple of other random blog posts on the subject.

www.ohforfuckssake.com -goes into a great amount of detail on the Mail and Digg.

Mc Garveys post is a little me more of a fair and balanced posting, and the comment from a user called theredrocket is even more enlightening.

theredrocket
April 2, 2008 at 11:15 am

"A really interesting find John. Unfortunately - and I say unfortunately, coz I’m really not a DM fan - is that they’ve got their finger on the pulse of how so many people thing in this country. A friend of mine who works for the BBC said that when working out what are the main topics of the day for BBC News, they pick up a copy of the Daily Mail in their news meetings. Which is more than a little bit worrying."

Does this mean that traditional media is finally fully embracing social news network trends, SEO practices and the power that these weld to drive traffic, or are they just using back handed link baiting / buying techniques to squeeze out content from independents, who are increasingly finding it harder to hit front pages / get exposure on the fore mentioned services.

Personally I feel that the strategies of the bigger players in both the UK domestic market and abroad are bearing fruit but at what cost, with rumors of Google eying up the social news service Digg is it only a mater of time before Digg becomes yet another "who's got the most ad spend = front page exposure = traffic to client" service.

Only time will tell.