All around the world…
Posted by ptobin on April 23, 2008
A technical innovation, on this very website, proves in yet another way how the internet is shaping journalism. If you look to your right you (should) see a little map of the world decorated with red dots.
Now all of those dots represent people(s), in those areas of the world, who have seen this blog. Whether or not they were wowed and impressed by the content remains to be seen but they were here. Now, knowing this I can see that, through whatever searches or links, people from the US but mostly Ireland have stumbled upon this corner of the web.
If I were commercially minded then I could intentionally begin posting stories tailored to the areas from which people are logging on and hope that this would result in higher numbers of visits and, through this, advertising could become an option.
It is almost like reverse news customisation. You don’t have to do anything, I’ll just do area appropriate news to you.
