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> The conclusion: NPR's commenting system — which gets more expensive the more comments that are posted, and in some months has cost NPR twice what was budgeted
by acbabis 10y ago
> The conclusion: NPR's commenting system — which gets more expensive the more comments that are posted, and in some months has cost NPR twice what was budgeted — is serving a very, very small slice of its overall audience.
If this was the extent of their analysis (the article doesn't say), shame on them. People reading the comments should count too.
- coldtea 10y agoPlus, in a meta argument, NPR itself only serves a small slice of the overall US audience -- should it be shut down too?
- rexaliquid 10y agoWayyy different orders of magnitude. From NPR's self reported estimates, ~10% of the US population listens to NPR radio weekly. Only ~0.013% of web users commented on articles. No telling how many regularly read the comments without contributing. Does anyone have lurker estimates?
- acbabis 10y agoSome comment service providers like Disqus only load the comments if the user scrolls to them, while others only load if the user clicks on a button. If these services' analytics tools don't track this, they should. I'm much more interested in how many people interact with the comments section. This includes posting, lurking, voting, and flagging.
- dominotw 10y ago> ~10% of the US population listens to NPR radio weekly ~30 million users per week would put NPR on par with some of the social networks. Amazing feat by NPR if that number is legit.
- rexaliquid 10y agoNumbers from the NPR Fact Sheet: http://www.npr.org/about/press/NPR_Fact_Sheet.pdf http://www.npr.org/about/press/NPR_Fact_Sheet.pdf
- vacri 10y agoAnecdata: a few years ago I did a road trip through NV, UT, and CO, and for large swathes of that trip, the only radio station that wasn't glassy-eyed christian pap ("if we make 20k donations, it can ONLY by god's will!" and similar) was NPR. If I lived in the area, it would be the only sane choice for radio...