Riders on the Storm – NYTimes.com

But the core find­ing is that most Inter­net users do not stay within their com­mu­ni­ties. Most peo­ple spend a lot of time on a few giant sites with polit­i­cally inte­grated audi­ences, like Yahoo News.

via Rid­ers on the Storm – NYTimes.com. Inter­est­ing one study finds that the idea of peo­ple avoid­ing web sites that dif­fer from their own point of view isn’t so true. How­ever this is hard to ratio­nal­ize with my thoughts of most peo­ple that I know. It’s far more likely the ide­o­logues only visit a few sites and most every­one else floats from site to site as the study suggests.

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