Who Owns What Feed + Widget Available
We finished the RSS feed and widget, so if you want to track who's buying/ selling what in the new media landscape, have a look here. (You can also click on that big button up and to the left of the page).
Some questions I've been getting:
- Where's eBay? We're purposefully not tracking eBay because it's not distributing news content. On the other hand, eBay somewhat recently acquired StumbleUpon. And I'm guessing that part of the motivation behind that buy has to do with the amount of relational data that's being collected by StumbleUpon. To wit: Do you like politics, hamburgers, Apple products and Baltimore? You and 40% of general users with these same preferences seemed to also like the new ad on McDonald's site for new hamburger widgets...
- How come I'm not getting new items on the feed daily? Good question. We're filtering the information based on certain keywords, so you'll only see news items about the buying/ selling of properties by the six companies listed on the Who Owns What chart.
- Can I reprint and use all this stuff for my journalism class/ newsroom training/ blog? Of course! All of this research is meant to spark discussion in the journalism community. Just please link back to MyDigimedia.
