These figures measure the top 100 U.S. newspapers and their online offerings. It doesn’t measure some of the newer, powerful components of the Network Effect (Video, users ranking content, mashups, MyYahoo-type personalization, newspaper database searches) but is still noteworthy.
It is a score card for how well papers are now beginning to understand the dynamics our new era of customer-driven, networked journalism. A Washington D.C. outfit called the Bivings Group tallied these numbers and almost instantly amateur journalist bloggers counted the feature list for newspapers in Italy, New Zealand and the U.K.
Last week Bivings added figures for Japan making more comparisons and analysis practical.
