Time Inc. Peers into Digital Crystal Ball and Future Looks Good
by Sherri L. Smith
A little taste of where magazines could be headed in the future, imagine what this technology could do for Sports Illustrated’s sister publication Essence.
Read MoreBlack Actresses ranked by Google
by Markus Robinson
There was a great post in Rock Candy ranking Hollywood’s Black Leading Ladies using web metrics. The site did an exhaustive search of popular black actresses, and rated them in A-D listed categories determined by the look of their official web destinations and the number of fan sites dedicated to them. Rock Candy’s approach was a great idea, but it forgot to take into consideration one key component when determining a celebrity’s popularity. Search terms! What better measure of popularity than the number of people searching for you in Google!? We decided to take Rock Candy’s study a step further by using Google Trends to measure each actress’s search popularity. Let’s see if our results jive with theirs.
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