Great Graph: Information Age(s)

So I Stumbled Upon a great graph and related blog post on the evolution of media. The graph is shown right here for your math induced dorky delight:

Where do you get your news?

I really liked both the write up on the site and the presentation of news sources, even though the timeline is abbreviated… you still get the right idea.  I love graphs and images that take a big concept and shrink it to a single, coherent image that just makes sense.

This also spawned a great, quick email conversation with some friends on whether the recent and upcoming years were right: is social going to dominate media?  Short answer, yes, content will be coming from a million different places in the next few years and we all have the ability to produce content.  I thre in that targeting has to be a bigger piece of the puzzle because all that content will just get crowded.  I view social media more as context than content… what is the slant or the framework put around an article more than what is in it.  Targeting that social media will make every browsing experience a positive one, rather than wading through endless content.

At any rate… It’s a great graph and great topic of conversation.  So, where do you get your news?

Oh, and I highly recommend trying Stumble Upon… it’s a great way to browse the web with your own parameters loosely guiding the way… you set up topics of interest, click a button, and stumble your way through the endless content that other stumblers tagged as things that may interest you.  Worth an audition…