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By Rick Waghorn: (My thanks to Paul for this opportunity to ‘cross-post’; this is from OutWithABang yesterday… http://outwithabang.rickwaghor~ - I have to say being granted access to someone else’s blog is very weird; it’s like tip-toeing through someone else’s bedroom… ... [Link]
Bas Timmers on the problems with updating on the web. Imagine this: you read an exclusive breaking news article on a website that says Gordon Brown is about to resign voluntarily. An hour later you come back to that same ... [Link]
At ONA 08 and a week later at Poynter Seminar on ethics, I talked about my online ethics seal idea. The idea is very simple — to form a series of ethics seals that Web sites, blogs and news organizations ... [Link]
I’m back in work after a stint of what’s known around here as freshers flu. (all the new students bring more than just eager minds to class) I know I have a lot of things that I need to post ... [Link]
The news hit the wires this week that Autobytel, one of the original third party auto sites, had hired RBC Capital Markets to explore its options, and was laying off 75 of its 225 workers. This was on top of ... [Link]
I’m a big fan of optimizing headlines for search engines so they can be found, but sometimes sites go too far. At the moment, there are unverified rumors crawling around the Internet that actor James Earl Jones died. So I ... [Link]
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a bit of background on why I ended up building ReportingOn in Django instead of Drupal. Frankly, to the users of the site, it shouldn’t matter which platform I chose, but to me, and to ... [Link]
Paul Fahri is right in so many details as he recounts how he deck is stacked against America's newspapers, yet so wrong in concluding that journalism doesn't share the blame. Journalism should share the blame, and journalists are not powerless. ... [Link]
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Congrats, Mindy. Glad to see reddit was able to send some traffic your way. Hopefully you’ve gained a few more new readers from it.
March 29, 2007 at 6:17 amHow does a link on a list of seemingly unrelated topics provide such a massive boost in page hits? Are people just clicking at random?
And how do links get on Reddit in the first place?
(Forgive me I sound confused.)
March 29, 2007 at 11:16 amI think it means nothing — these people don’t care about my usual subject matter at all. They click, they glance, they leave. It’s really useless. Except, as Alexis said, maybe I will pick up a few new regular readers as a result. And I do mean a FEW.
Links get on Reddit the same way they get on Digg — people post them.
March 29, 2007 at 12:31 pm