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"Whenever I go on nytimes.com, I always found myself in the most emailed section reading all the links. You know the most emailed news is gonna be a good read since a lot of people took the extra step to tell a friend. MostEmailedNews.com takes those boxes from a bunch of popular different news sources and puts them all together for you on one concise page. It gives you a nice cross section of what people are emailing, right now, all over the world."
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"'Based on our research, the conversation [with advertisers] gets interesting at 200 million page views plus a month, but much more so around 800 million,' Ms. Fine oc ContentNext writes.
"Those ambitious numbers, she continues, show how hard it is for local news sites to be really profitable, and underscore 'why local papers will have trouble offsetting traditional media declines' with revenue from their websites.
"The report also looks at whether the Times could ever succeed as a web-only product, and concludes that it could — once NYT.com starts generating 1.3 billion page views a month.
"By Ms. Fine's back-of-the-envelope calculations, that kind of traffic would bring in $300 million in quarterly advertising revenues, about what the flagship paper is expected to generate in the fourth quarter.
"The Times' site had 173 million page views in October, according to ComScore Media Metrix."
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"Omniture SiteCatalyst users can now analyze data from Apple iPhones. The application, AppMeasurement for iPhone, lets marketers and software developers understand how iPhone users interact with their applications.
"SiteCatalyst helps marketers quickly identify the most profitable paths through their Web site, determine where and when visitors navigate away from their site, and identify metrics for online marketing campaigns."
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Interesting collection of maps related to current humanitarian crises around the world.
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Facebook group for Nigerian city currently experiencing considerable unrest
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Oakland County, MI: "Today we announce the formation of The Oakland Press Institute for Citizen Journalism and invite readers to attend our classes. Local News Editor Julie Jacobson Hines, Sports Editor Jeff Kuehn, Photo Editor Tim Thompson, Online Editor Stephen Frye, High School Sports Coordinator Keith Dunlap and videographers Jim Martinez and Andrew DuPont will be the teachers at our institute."
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Great podcast, worth a listen:
"Saul Griffith’s solution framework for the climate challenge, begins with a 6-step model. Assume changes in CO2 cause climate changes. Choose a temperature where we’d like to set the planet. From temperature, calculate how much carbon we can burn. Figure out what fuels we can burn. Analyze new energy sources. Finally calculate a new, survivable energy mix. His primer on energy units makes his model accessible to all, no matter their level of technical knowledge.
"Griffith then shows the audience how he calculated his personal energy consumption based on his lifestyle and the changes he will need to make to use no more than his share of the total energy resources coming out of his model. He describes the engineering task of creating the new energy mix and ideas that industry could undertake. He ends with a striking object lesson involving a bottle of energy water and finally his sense of what will be the hardest part of implementing his solution."
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"Funny thought perhaps, or maybe only in the Bay Area — but our subway system — BART, has an API. And it's kind of fun…."
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Steve Outing's excellent critique of the new Detroit Newspapers strategy to scale back on print. One key point:
"Paid editions on the non-home-delivery days is a mistake. Younger people will not, for the most part, pay for these on the newsstand. So this does nothing to address the problem of newspaper print editions’ aging demographic (average age, over 50)."
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Hands down, one of the very best online resources on the basics of polyamory. This is a good link to send to people who aren't familiar with polyamory or who are skeptical but willing to learn.
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Great podcast well worth a listen. could have significant implications for media as well as telecom/telephony:
"We've become so used to the idea of telecom as a service in the style of the railroads that the biggest impediment to moving ahead is recognizing that we don't need depend on service providers to assure that we can communicate. It's just the opposite – the Internet has demonstrated that it's hard to prevent connectivity. Instead of moving ahead we vesting more of our effort in pipes controlled by providers and thus stifling the Internet dynamic.
"Our challenge is to first understand connectivity apart from telecom. We can then focus on local connectivity and then interconnecting the local efforts outside the purview of traditional telecom. The key is understanding and a community built on common protocols."
