No one covers DEMO like DEMO. Is this a good thing?
Many a journalist has framed TechCrunch and DEMOfall as combative peers. Both events, now underway, showcase new tech products and services.
We're currently analyzing the 293 tech news articles published in June 2008 by the Wall Street Journal.
With tech coverage ever harder to win these days, subscribers are asking us whether fewer tech articles are being written.
We love to analyze trade show coverage. We learn which media outlets see themselves as citizens of the tech community. Each outlet reveals its journalistic values and priorities.
Want to get into the business press? Line forms to the rear.
As promised, today we look at how Cisco's Nexus 7000 launch strategy played out, and how you or your clients might "borrow" some of Cisco's ideas.
Consumer tech coverage dominated while enterprise tech coverage was all but absent from January's "most e-mailed" and "most popular" articles in the WSJ, NYT, Forbes.com, USA Today and News.com, according to SWMS research.
Here's what else we turned up.
* Photo essays ranked as the first, second or third most popular content at News.com on 12 of the 15 weekdays we studied. Examples: Cracking Open the Xbox 360 Elite (Jan. 14, via TechRepublic) and LEDs in Your Contact Lenses? (Jan. 22). Photo essays typically are fun to view and generate more page views than articles.
Who's done the best job covering Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo? Having scrutinized coverage from more than a dozen outlets, we'd have to say that as of Sunday night, the hands-down winner was Silicon Alley Insider.
