Andrew Golis

• Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times » Nieman Journalism Lab
  Suddenly the link economy isn't such a bad thing, huh NYTs?
  (tags: nyt yahoo hyperlinks metrics new.media advertising aggregation newspaper)

Went on the wonderful GritTv yesterday to discuss the week in news:

• Beet.TV: CNN's iReport Had 1 Million Page Views on Monday: Iran Crisis is "Enormous Moment in Citizen Journalism"
  Good interview on CNN figuring out participatory media.
  (tags: cnn beet.tv metrics journalism statistics)
• Facebook Launches A Live Stream Box, Partners With Ustream
  I love this stuff.
  (tags: facebook live.video ustream tech)

• National Journal Online — Tech Daily Dose — Facebook Makes Hill Presence Official
  Facebook gets lobbyists!
  (tags: lobbying facebook national.journal)

• Economist Group Has A Good Year – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Good for them.
  (tags: economist mediabistro new.media)
• Howard Kurtz – Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on Nick Denton, Founder of Gawker – washingtonpost.com
  This is a pretty depressing piece. Sounds like an awful place to work.
  (tags: gawker new.media blogging journalism wapo howard.kurtz nick.denton)

• 'CQ' to Join 'Roll Call' Under Economist Group – mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC
  Interesting.
  (tags: cq economist newspaper mediabistro)
• AOL’s PoliticsDaily Quickly Surpasses Rival Politico, MediaGlow Sites Continue To Grow
  This is a WHOLE lot of analysis built on one bad data point.
  (tags: politics.daily aol new.media techcrunch metrics)
• Hodgman and Obama nerd it up
  Very funny.
  (tags: video funny john.hodgman obama kottke)
• For TechCrunch, Twitter = Traffic (A Statistical Breakdown)
  Interesting stats on TechCrunch's twitter growth.
  (tags: twitter statistics techcrunch marketing new.media)
• AP Pilot Program Will Distribute Nonprofit Watchdog And Investigative Journalism | paidContent.org
  Very cool.
  (tags: ap new.media syndication non.profit journalism paid.content)
• Beet.TV: MySpace Has been a "Calamity for News Corp," Michael Wolff
  Brutal.
  (tags: beet.tv myspace social.networking rupert.murdoch newscorp)
• MediaShift . 5 Ways a Community Manager Can Help Your Media Outlet | PBS
  A very nice basic walk through.
  (tags: community new.media comments marketing mediashift)

• Froomkin out at Washington Post – Michael Calderone – POLITICO.com
  Too bad, I like Froomkin.
  (tags: wapo froomkin calderon newspaper)
• Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants » Nieman Journalism Lab
  Director of the Knight Foundation journalism program explains this year's decisions.
  (tags: knigh.foundation new.media video nieman.journalism.lab)
• Josh Marshall Goes on The Colbert Report | TPMTV
  The bossman does the teevee.
  (tags: tpm colbert josh.marshall video)
• Times, ProPublica Journos Get $719,500 for Document Cloud | The New York Observer
  TPM's one of the founding members! Love this project.
  (tags: new.media transparency pro.publica nyt nyo tpm)
• Salon Co-Founder Receives Knight Grant to Create Forum for Journos to Admit Their Errors – mediabistro.com: BayNewser
  Cool project.
  (tags: knigh.foundation new.media scott.rosenberg journalism mediabistro)
• A Word About Our New Look | paidContent
  Fucking gorgeous redesign from paidContent.
  (tags: design new.media paid.content)

• Washington Post Launches Support For Facebook Connect
  Trying to sort out what the right strategic framework is for considering these kinds of integrations…
  (tags: wapo new.media facebook social.networking newspaper)

• Andrew Sullivan – Ben Smith – POLITICO.com
  Sullivan did 1.2 million visits yesterday as he went all out on Iran.
  (tags: andrew.sullivan metrics the.atlantic ben.smith politico iran new.media blogging)
• Twitter And Facebook Are Fueling A Revolution (CLIP)
  Richard Engel notes that protesters are using twitter and other platform to share which areas of the city are safe, which hospitals and cars can be used, etc.
  (tags: twitter facebook protest iran new.politics)
• Arianna Huffington: ‘Staying Still Doesn’t Work’ | paidContent.org
  Key data points:
  - 21.2 million uniques in May according to their Google Analytics.
  - $8 million in revenue in 2008.
  - HIGH BOUNCE RATE.
  (tags: huffpo advertising new.media paid.content)
• HuffPo Changes CEOs: Betsy Morgan Being Replaced By SoftBank’s Eric Hippeau | paidContent.org
  BRUTAL quote: "A source familiar with the situation credited Morgan with doing a “terrific job” getting the company to this point but said the company, which raised another $25 million from Oak Investments late last year for expansion, needed someone with broader media experience and an advertising and technology background to take the next steps."
  (tags: huffpo advertising new.media paid.content)

• CNN Fail? Network Covers Iran Post-Election More than Any Other Cabler – mediabistro.com: TVNewser
  The twitter meme #CNNfail was pretty unfair it seems. Should have been #cablenewsfail.
  (tags: television cnn twitter video iran)
• Chris Anderson’s Counterintuitive Rules For Charging For Media Online
  These rules seem to be the emerging conventional wisdom.
  (tags: pay.wall new.media advertising techcrunch chris.anderson)