News Orgs: their Fans and Followers, March 2012

The Onion, holding its own.

(Source: futurejournalismproject, via ilovecharts)

They say that people in Hollywood are always nice to everyone [..]because they’re never certain whom they might be dealing with[..].

Well, we’re all in showbiz now [..] we’re always selling ourselves. We use social media to create a product — to create a brand — and the product is us. We treat ourselves like little businesses, something to be managed and promoted.

The self today is an entrepreneurial self, a self that’s packaged to be sold.

Generation Sell - William Deresiewicz

Journalism in the Age of Data

Really interesting documentary about the rise of data visualization. Click here to check it out.

via soupsoup:

Physical sales in a digital era

For decades, the music industry has been looking to the album charts to establish what made a hit. In the past 10 years, though, album sales have plummeted, sales of singles have surged and new sources of revenue have emerged — like fees for music streamed online and ringtone purchases — that are changing the definition of a hot artist.

Just wanna add that in the 90s the big labels stopped releasing singles afraid of the cannibalization of album sales.

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