links for 2010-09-14

Another key way in which we are different is that we strive to be real time with our news coverage – publishing the news as we get it via the site, RSS, Twitter and Facebook. Whereas our local newspaper publishes once a week and even its web site is only really updated with news stories once per week, although we would assume that will change sometime in the not too distant future.

The study sampled 13 newspapers blogs covering the 2008 presidential campaign and 13 unaffiliated political blogs based on circulation and blog popularity rankings. The sample included 3,527 sources, from which 1,469 were used in the posts of the newspaper blogs and 2,058 were used in the unaffiliated blogs.