Louis' Online Reading List

Facebook: 350M People Using Messaging; More Than 4B Messages Sent Daily | TechCrunch

BBC News - Facebook revamps messaging system

A sign of Facebook's domination of the online instant messaging market

BBC - Radio - Site Usage

How many people are consuming BBC Radio and how?

Email Evolution: Web-based Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise - comScore, Inc

Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise

Shareable: The Future of Peer Production [Event]

More people than ever are using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn

ABCs: National daily newspaper circulation September 2011 | Media | guardian.co.uk

The declining circulation figures for UK national newspapers

BBC - Podcasts - John Peel Lecture

"Pete Townshend examines the current state of music media and asks the question: Can John Peelism survive the Internet? In an age of free downloads and a disposable attitude to music, can creative people earn a living, and without radio how can the "unpolished" music that John Peel championed find an audience?"

Baird Lecture 2011: Digital Journalism Is In Golden Era, Says Sky News Boss John Ryley | Technology | Sky News

A great piece about why digital journalism is thriving

Why do children learn things much faster than adults do? - Sharecare

A brief explanation of why children learn things faster than adults.

BBC News - Third of adults 'use smartphone' says Ofcom report

Social Media Marketing Stats

If Facebook Were a Country…

The amazing stats about Facebook's user popularity

Clearing up those digital radio listening figures - James Cridland

Is digital radio actually making a big impact?

It's a matter of privacy

Interesting article about what is private these days.

Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com

Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."

James Surowiecki: When social media became news | Video on TED.com

James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering

Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail | Video on TED.com

Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous.

Average home broadband user downloads 17 gigabytes a month | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Oregon Court Rules Blogging Isn’t Journalism | Techland | TIME.com