Comments on: Viral News: The Distributed Watercooler http://ryanthornburg.com/2009/02/18/viral-news-the-distributed-watercooler/ Ryan Thornburg Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Maurreen Skowran http://ryanthornburg.com/2009/02/18/viral-news-the-distributed-watercooler/#comment-86 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:27:16 +0000 http://www.ryanthornburg.org/blog/?p=230#comment-86 How much does this matter for local news?

Local issues are unlikely to interest people elsewhere. How likely is issues-oriented coverage to go viral, especially for the people in the local area?

And if event-oriented coverage does go viral, and a local site draws a lot of people from other regions — those visitors are unlikely to be customers for local advertisers.

Don’t viral effects have the potential to give misleading numbers?

]]> By: Zach Seward http://ryanthornburg.com/2009/02/18/viral-news-the-distributed-watercooler/#comment-85 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:08:24 +0000 http://www.ryanthornburg.org/blog/?p=230#comment-85 Glad to send you traffic! It was a great slideshow.

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