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The use of social media among US teens

Pew Internet has just published the results of a new survey called Teens and Social Media. It shows that US online teens increasingly are using the internet as a means to collaborate and to engage in conversations. Among the findings:

– 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos, up from 33% in 2004.
– 33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments, basically unchanged from 2004 (32%).
– 28% have created their own online journal or blog, up from 19% in 2004.
– 27% maintain their own personal webpage, up from 22% in 2004.
– 26% remix content they find online into their own creations, up from 19% in 2004.

Overall, girls seem to dominate the teen blogosphere in the US.

“35% of all online teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online teen boys. This gender gap for blogging has grown larger over time.”

Another interesting finding was that “Only 14% of all teens report sending emails to their friends every day, making it the least popular form of daily social communication on the list we queried.” Talk to friends on landline telephones is still the top channel.

Tags: pew, social media, sociala medier, bloggar. Ping.

Major increase in traffic from Aftonbladet to blogs

Two weeks ago I wrote about how aftonbladet.se noticed a 12% increase in incoming links after the news site started showing blog links to articles. Then I got an email from Roland Karlsson, the person behind the popular Swedish blog networks blogg.se and webblogg.se. Roland told me that the incoming traffic from aftonbladet.se to the blog network quadrupled since the introduction of blog links.

Number of visitors sent to blogg.se and webblogg.se from aftonbladet.se:

week 41: 5,005
week 42: 5,438
week 43: Aftonbladet introduces blog links
week 46: 15,084
week 47: 24,854

Aftonbladet leapfrogged into 10th place of sites that sends most traffic to the blog network, and #6 if you exclude Google, according to Roland Karlsson.

1. google.se 407,526
2. images.google.se 356,596
3. google.com 126,878
4. bloggtoppen.se 50,028
5. englasshowroom.com 38,928
6. lunarstorm.se 37,067
7. images.google.com 31,492
8. playahead.se 31,144
9. bloggkoll.com 26,341
10.aftonbladet.se 24,854

At first sight it might look like a no-brainer that Aftonbladet would send loads of traffic to anything it links to. But a recent example shows the opposite. When 7 bloggers, including myself, participated in blog panel at aftonbladet.se, none of us recieved more than about 20-30 visitors per day from the panel. So the question is whether our topic was too narrow for Aftonbladet’s readers or if it is more beneficial to piggyback on news articles than actually contributing your own original content. I’m leaning towards the former.

Footnote: During week 47 blogg.se/webblogg.se had 58,000 active bloggers.

Tags: aftonbladet, newspapers, statistik, bloggportalen, bloggar, aftonbladet. Ping.

A few technical changes to this blog

I’ve made some changes to the way this blog gets published. In order for the social bookmarks (below) to work, every blog post now also gets published as a separate page, which they weren’t before. That means that the permalinks now look like this:

http://www.kullin.net/2007/11/media-culpas-top-10-blog-pitch-pet.html

instead of this:

http://www.kullin.net/2007_11_01_mc.html#1862016548464840488

Both new and old URLs seem to work so hopefully you won’t notice any difference. But if you find som bugs, please let me know (I wouldn’t want every link to this blog to become invalid).

Tags: blogger, bloggar, media culpa. Ping.

The state of the Swedish blogosphere – Q3 2007

Primelabs issued a new report (pdf) this week about the Swedish blogosphere, ranked by number of incoming links from other blogs. Twingly Report Sweden outlines the most influential Swedish blogs between May 1st and Aug 31st, 2007. Among other things it shows that 13 of the 20 most linked to blogs are about politics, 4 blog about everyday life experiences, 3 write about media and 2 about culture.

The ten sites that Swedish bloggers link to most are:

1. Dagens Nyheter
2. Svenska Dagbladet
3. Aftonbladet
4. YouTube
5. Swedish Wikipedia
6. English Wikipedia
7. Expressen
8. Flickr
9. Internet Movie Database
10. Technorati

Only four out of ten are MSM, and five (YouTube, 2*Wikipedia, Flickr and Technorati) could be categorized at user generated content sites.

Listed below are the ten most influential Swedish media blogs. And since influence isn’t easy to measure, I added these blogs’ Technorati rank, inbound links via Technorati and Technorati authority (a higher number means more authority). To my knowledge, Twingly/Primelabs do not measure international blog links but are mainly tracking pure Swedish blogs. I also added Media Culpa as comparison at the bottom of the table and as you see it has higher authority than any of the blogs on the list.

Tags: technorati, twinglyreport, twinglyreport, bloggar, media, primelabs. Ping.

Aftonbladet shows blog links

Aftonbladet today started to link to blog posts that link to online articles (example here). But unlike all the other Swedish dailies which show blog links via the Twingly service, Aftonbladet chose to use its own blog portal Bloggportalen.se. On the site it says that the five most relevant comments are shown and to see all comments you need to go to Bloggportalen.se. It would be interesting to find out what factors that decide this relevance. [UPDATE: I didn’t read properly. Lotta Holmström writes that it is decided after how many incoming links a blog has.]

And since Aftonbladet.se is Sweden’s second largest website (MSN.se is no 1 according to KIA index) with close to 4 million visitors (unique web browsers) per week, prepare to see a major increase in blog links to Aftonbladet the coming weeks.

Tags: aftonbladet, twingly, bloggportalen, bloggar, aftonbladet. Ping.