Podcasting

Podcast Audience Small But Growing...Enough?

by Mark Glaser

You could call it the Headline Conundrum. Or maybe Sound-Bite Logic. Whatever the term, there's a regular problem with journalism related to the brevity of space to explain a complex issue or finding. A recent survey by Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 12% of Internet users have downloaded a podcast, up from 7% who said they did the same thing in a similar survey six months before. But as for people who download podcasts on a daily basis, the number was a tiny 1%.

• December 1, 2006
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Your Take Roundup

MediaShift Readers Want More MSM, Business Coverage

by Mark Glaser

There's nothing like an anonymous website survey to learn what people really think about your work. That's why I did an online survey to help give me an idea of what direction to take PBS MediaShift in the coming year. Have I done a good job? Have I covered the right type of stories that appeal to you? Is there something else I could be doing to improve the site?

• November 20, 2006
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MediaShift

Help Improve MediaShift with Your Feedback

by Mark Glaser

This is the post where I plead with you, offer you crazy schwag, and hope you will take 5 minutes out of your very busy lives to please fill out first ever MediaShift Reader Survey. I know, every other site on the planet is asking you for feedback too this week or this day or this minute.

• September 29, 2006
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