Interesting trend. Thanks, Michael. Here on washington, Al-Jazeera has become the the essential place to go for timely and in-depth coverage of events in the Middle East. Some Al-Jazeera watchers are starting to suggest that their information on other parts of the world are superior to that of CNN, the US broadcasters, and -- yes -- even the BBC.
With my interest in the Middle East, the public sources I I follow daily: Haaretz, al-Jazeera, Guardian, Le Monde, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Al-Ahram, BBC, NYT, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post (despite its dramatic deterioration over the past couple of years and now horrible website). Cheers, Lawry On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juergen Fenn > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 3:42 PM > To: nettime-l mailing list > Subject: <nettime> Middle East crises and Japan disaster lead to an increase > of online, TV viewers > > > > The revolutions in Tunesia and Egypt and the civil war in Libya as well as > the earth quake and tsunami leading to a nuclear catastrophe in Japan have > lead to a sharp increase of users viewing TV on-line. I have just come > across a blog post by web TV provider Livestation that says the number of > users has risen by 1047 percent (sic!) in the first quarter of 2011, making > it the first profitable one in the company's history. The blog post says > there are some 10 million viewers per month now watching international news > channels such as BBC World News, AlJazeera, or AlArabya on the peer-to-peer > service, as access is free to everyone who installs the client necessary. > Mobile sessions also increased to some 15 million in March 2011. > > <http://blog.livestation.com/index.php/2011/04/the-livestation-revolution/> > > Regards, > Jürgen. > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # > <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative > text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: > http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > > > !DSPAM:2676,4db9486040303383636737! > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
