Social Media On The Up!

We recently picked up this piece of news from Matt Williams from Brand Republic and wanted to share it with you. What we found most interesting was that the age of the social media user is getting older and well on the increase. This surely makes for a stronger case for services such as Online PR and blogging for your business.

LONDON - The social networks and blogs category has become the fourth most popular online, according to a new report by Nielsen.

The report, called Global Faces And Networked Places, has revealed that such sites are now visited by more than two-thirds of the global online population, accounting for almost 10 per cent of all time spent on the internet.

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Do Bloggers Count As Journalists?

In America there’s been a recent stir in the bloggersphere relating to a bill of Congress that state a journalist has the right to keep his or her sources confidential, effectively banning the government from forcing journalists to reveal whistleblowers.

Bu wnen it comes to bloggers as well as freelancers, independents, and nonprofit journalists – the government can in effect force you to divulge where information has come from. 

The reasoning is that if journalism is a hobby or passion you do as a public service, or if you are a freelancer without a boss, both of which easily describe a blogger, then the government reserves the right to force you to tell them who told you something, much like the government tried to do with New York Times journalist Judy Miller under the Bush Administration.

What do you think? Is this fair? Will it stop radical views being aired online?

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