The Internet Discovery Machine: Archive

September 2010

30 posts

Game Changing Rumor: Hulu Coming To Roku Media Streamers → facebook.com

Sep 28, 2010

Washington Capitals, Pittsburgh Penguins to be on HBO '24/7' reality show for Winter Classic - ESPN → facebook.com

Sep 24, 2010

Sep 23, 20102 notes

#hitwise #analytics #digg.com

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Sep 22, 2010

“Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profit as media companies struggle with declining print circulation and advertising revenue.” —

Apple to announce subscription plan for newspapers - San Jose Mercury News

Here we go, another media vertical to be swallowed up by Apple (music, tv, etc.)

Sep 15, 2010

#apple #industry news

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Sep 15, 20101 note

#twitter #web analytics #analytics

BREAKING NEWS — Break Out the Three Buck Chuck: Clarendon Trader Joe’s Close to a Reality | ARLnow.c → facebook.com

Sep 15, 2010

Sep 13, 201026 notes

#anthony bourdain #travel channel

Police fatally shoot dog at Adams Morgan festival → facebook.com

Sep 13, 2010

“The Post’s solution was elegant and organic at the same time: It took a basic question — a question everyone, anyone can answer — and molded it into a simple but powerful piece of journalism. The tag — a more creative, dynamic version of MSNBC’s yearly replay of its initial, frenzied 9/11 coverage — invited its participants to take part in the yearly ritual of collective memory. And it defined the news organization not merely as a collector of news, but as a curator of experience.” —

#Wherewereyou: WaPo puts the humble hashtag to work » Nieman Journalism Lab

Good summation of the social media team’s efforts. Well done!

Sep 13, 2010

#wherewereyou #wapo #washington post

Fireball to Flying Fish

fuckyeahdementia:

awesome.

Sep 10, 2010155 notes

#street fighter #flying fish

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Sep 8, 2010

#google #search #innovation

Traffic Jam : CJR → cjr.org

3rd party audience sizes (Nielsen/comScore) have always been incredibly hard to understand as to why they differ so much. Now with the addition of the Unified/Hybrid methods, sites are claiming huge growth when really they just changed the way they measured users on their site. I blame comScore and Nielsen. No one is perfect, but they’re sure not helping.

Sep 8, 2010

#web analytics #analytics #comscore #nielsen #CJR

“If we accept that newspapers can use analytics to their benefit without letting it corrupt the most sacred of editorial decisions, I would ask a question: why can’t newspapers use multivariate testing in the same fashion? Why not, for instance, test two different versions of the same story, or present the same story using several different content approaches? Certainly this would pose some challenges, and risks, but I’d venture a guess that newspapers would also learn some very valuable lessons just as important as those they’ll learn by making use of web analytics.” —

Web analytics: newspaper savior? | Econsultancy

More opinions on web analytics + newspaper websites. Did they really think that they didn’t use analytics before 2010?

Sep 7, 2010

#web analytics #wapo #analytics #econsultancy.com

“I do like the focus of the Washington Post however, they appear to have a greater investment in their performance metrics and have 120 different people looking at the numbers daily.” —

Newspaper Industry Finally taking Advantage of Analytics? - Web Analytics World Blog

More coverage of web analytics at WaPo. Doesn’t add much to the story than the other articles…

Sep 7, 2010

#web analytics #metrics #wapo

“What we’re realizing is that we can’t live in a vacuum, where we decide what people want to read.” —

Katharine Zaleski, on why we care about traffic intel // Howard Kurtz - Appeasing the Google Gods (via amzam)

Couldn’t agree more!

Sep 7, 20101 note

#wapo #metrics #analytics #web analytics

Sep 6, 2010

#web analytics #wapo #washington post #nytimes #ny times #metrics

Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online → facebook.com