Journalism, Technology, History

How does it Compete?

Search engine Compete.com has a new domain traffic comparison tool. Anybody got a clue if this any more accurate than the more-probably-than-not wrong Alexa? The results, I guess, can only be considered relative to other sites. Instead of cookies, IP...

Talking with Ms. Dewey

Continuing to catchup, John Battelle introduced me to Ms Dewey, a sexy search site apparently put up by Microsoft to promote its new live search. She’s flirtatious and funny. I searched for Knoxville, Ms. Dewey says:

Surfing in September

Some good news for newspapers: Newspaper Sites See Record Traffic in September (via Lost Remote).

Blogroll updated!

Updated my blogroll today. I manually update this by exporting my Google Reader OPML file to my computer and running a perl script written by Srijith Krishnan Nair against it. Thanks, Sri! Does your blog need to be on my...

Jukebox debut

Whoa, JB’s got new toys. Cool. It’ll be a good read the total system looks like.

A long time comin'

Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine, whose prescience about the newspaper business is hard to argue, makes a prediction:

A Google bombing run

I noticed this in our referring domain stats for Tuesday on knoxnews. Blogger Chris Bowers, self-described numbers geek and political strategist, has launched a Liberal guerilla effort at search engine optimization. I noticed a number of sites that have the...

Simple is good

We bought one of these Pure Digital point-and-shoot video cameras. Seems to be an awesome value in a simple-is-good package. Anyone one else tried them for news video? We’re hoping to arm reporters with them for Web video. It’s the...

In a snit

Jason Calacanis is in a snit over ads in Netscape’s RSS full feeds – and for good reason. Tags: RSS news feeds
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