The Internet & the future of news

The Akamai Net Usage Index for News,5 which monitors aggregate Web traffic generated at more than a hundred global breaking-news websites, shows that when news occurs, the Internet serves as a primary means for seeking information because of its accessibility, convenience, breadth of data, and ability for the end user to control the specificity and customization of the news. Since consuming news is such a big part of people's daily lives, tracking where news is consumed and which news stories attract the most online attention are critical measurements in determining a variety of geographic and sociological trends. [...] not least, industry adoption of open standards and platforms will be critical to accelerate user adoption and technological innovation, as well as to enable the massive scale in infrastructure that video portends.