Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Benefit of "Fun" Articles


I read an interesting article on lifehacker.com this evening describing how inserting a straw into a ketchup bottle can increase the speed of ketchup flow. The reason I find this interesting is because I believe short articles like this have a place in the future of online journalism.

People enjoy reading short articles that provide tips to everyday problems. Articles like the one I mentioned have a chance to increase readership and more importantly, sharing via social media. Social media sharing increases traffic and if news organizations begin creating a small section for fun articles it may become a sufficient tool in the future. 

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