Tag: survey

XKCD’s Big Data Survey

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XKCD is running a survey of pointless questions to generate a big data set. That data set will go public when it is all over and then Randall Munroe is hoping that creative people will be able to do interesting things with the anonymized (but public) data. For example… … Fill this text box with gibberish by mashing random keyboard keys … When you think about stuff on the internet, where do you picture it being physically located? Even if you know it’s not really how things work, is there a place you imagine websites and social media posts sitting before

Should Breakfast Radio Be Short Spots Or Longer Features

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Some interesting thoughts via Media.Info on breakfast radio and why common perceptions and styles don’t match up to the data: New data analysis based on millions of listener movements from the official Scandinavian PPM ratings systems show that this long-standing model has too rigid a focal point. Only half of listeners on Scandinavian airwaves leave their homes during the breakfast show and during the 6 AM to 9 AM period the in-home listeners heavily outnumber listeners on the go.

Ever thought that newspaper stories were getting smaller?

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Some interesting graphs and numbers on the length of stories on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Capsule fact, the wordcount has dropped, 2500 worders are almost nonexistent. The Wall Street Journal’s page one has long been the standard-bearer for business writing and reporting, at least for newspapers. It took news and turned it into narrative nonfiction, everyday, twice a day, for decades. But Rupert Murdoch made it no secret that he disdained the Journal’s page-one tradition of long-form journalism, and it’s been de-emphasized under his ownership. That’s our qualitative impression, anyway, based on reading the paper, following

Podcasters ask “Are you listening? Are you going to reply?”

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“Lies, damn lies, and statistics.” To the old clichĂ© it might be worth adding “number of internet downloads” because working out just how many people are consuming your content is the source of countless applications, rules of thumb, and the occasional touch of snake oil (yes, I still get pitched with measured “hits” in 2011).  It gets even more interesting with podcasting… So how do you work out who’s listening and engaging with your podcast? Some of my suggestions are up on the BlogWorld Blog.

More than 1 in 7 people in the UK listen to podcasts

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Of course with the BBC dominating the iTunes podcast charts, they know for sure that podcasting is still growing, and attracting new listeners all the time. More than eight million adults in the UK – around 16% of the adult population – have downloaded a podcast, with almost half listening to one at least once a week. This figure is echoed in the US. And as I get ready to do one of my biggest podcasts of the year from The Fringe, it’s always good to have my experience backed up.

Your mobile is the wallet of choice

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Of the 2400 mobile visitors to m.myxer.com that we surveyed, 53% responded that they had made a purchase from their mobile phone. The largest group, 19%, said they made between 2 and 5 purchases a month. Surprisingly, 16% said that they make more than 10 purchases a month. That’ a nice big sample size, and over half of them are confident to use their phone to buy stuff. Even allowing for a self-selection bias, that’s promising news for a lot of start-ups out there. And Paypal.