Andrew Golis

• The New York Times Explains Twitter…to the New York Times | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
  This blurb on twitter is fantastic:

  "The first stage for many users is soul searching, or Why Bother?

  This sort of existential malaise grips most newcomers to twitter, especially if many of their friends aren’t on it….

  Still it’s a good question, why would the world care what you are twittering about? And the truth is, in most cases, the world doesn’t! … But you’re not twittering to the world, you’re twittering to your friends and family. And they do care…

  People who attack twitter for being mundane and banal are missing the point. It is mundane, but then again so is most of what I talk about during the day. When I’m talking to my friends we don’t quote epigrams from Voltaire or compete to create choice bon mots. We make dumb jokes, we talk about the weather, what’s on TV, our weird dreams whatever. The stupid and the trivial are the social glue of conversation.

  I like to say that Twitter is stupid, but it’s the right kind of stupid…"

  (tags: nyt new.media twitter powerpoint)
• What happens to all of those laid-off and bought-out journalists? – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  Wow is THAT depressing.
  (tags: economics romenesko journalism jobs)
• Web Traffic To Top 10 Online Newspapers Grows 16 Percent In December | Nielsen Wire
  Continually amazed at just how few uniques the newspapers in the 5th to 10th ranks get.
  (tags: new.media newspaper metrics nieman)

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