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New feature from Google Reader allows you to click “see details” when you’re viewing an individual feed to see how many posts have gone up on individual days, what time of day, and what day of the week. This could easily give you the tools to do some interesting research.
You know you have a successful community on your site when you see wonderful inside jokes like this.
If they really think they can stop the Obama campaign from posting this, they really need to look up “fair use.”
I honestly doubt they actually think they have a legal case here (and YouTube needs to get a backbone and stop with the ban first, questions later BS). I suspect they’re making noise just to make clear that they’re not the media wing of the Obama campaign. Those timid bastards.
Politico.com: 85 staff members, 3 million unique readers per month.
Talkingpointsmemo.com: 12 staff members, 2.5 milliion unique readers per month.
Just sayin’.
Update: Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei says their internal numbers are much higher than 3 million. My point still stands (unless it’s 6X the 3 mill), but I thought it was fair to point that out.
Scott Karp is exactly right that every newspaper in American should have a headline aggregation system that brings the best of the whole web to an audience, not just the best that newspaper has done.
But he’s wrong that the only options right now are aggregators who link and newspapers who get links. His readers may be fighting that fight, but aggregators and newspapers are already there and moving.
On the newspaper side, we’re already seeing movement. We don’t have to “imagine if the NYTimes.com put above the fold on its homepage a continuously updated list of links ot breaking news around the web.” Or at least we won’t have to wait much longer. As reported in July, the Times is getting ready to launch Times Extra “which will be links to stories from NYT competitors, and will even occupy space on NYTimes.com homepage, a huge leap for the paper’s rather cloistered journalistic attitude of lore.” It’s only a toe in the water, but as PaidContent notes it’s a dramatic move if it continues. And as with many things, if The New York Times is going there, others are sure to follow.
On the aggregator side, Karp couldn’t be more wrong that “Drudge has NO COMPETITION!” Huffington Post is first a foremost an aggregator and is investing huge amounts of money in hiring up a reporting staff to reach the hybrid model he’s describing. At TPM, we launched an aggregating front page over a year ago that sends hundreds of thousands of pageviews a day to sites other than TPM. And we had a reporting staff before we launched the aggregator that’s only grown since.
The story to watch is not if, but how these hybrid models develop.
It’s time to start asking new questions: As aggregators report more news and newspapers do more aggregation, how does the market settle out? How do big news sites negotiate mass audiences and the need to compete witih niche aggregators? Will regional papers allow Huffington to get a foot in the door and start to develop an audiene or beat them there and prevent a challenge?
Karp is right that newspapers still need to be pushed. But my sense from things like Times Extra and the folks I talk to is that people are starting to catch on, and the real battle is about to be waged.
I love that he does this. He jumps in to make the case for why he’s thrilled at her success. Here’s the meat of his comment:
This is our schedule, 8 PM-Midnight Eastern:
8 PM Me
9 PM Rach
10 PM Me
11 PM RachIt’s not just that I’m her lead-in; she is also my lead-in.
When I do really well at 8, she’s likely to do really well at 9. If she does really well at 9, I’m likely to do really well at 10. If I do really well at 10, she’s likely to do really well at 11.
So if she does better at 9 than I did at 8, I will do even better than I otherwise would have at 10, etc.
I did better than she did on Monday. She did better than I did on Tuesday. I did better than she did on Wednesday. But the point is, we’re talking viewership totals above 1,500,000 in each of these hours, and “demo” viewerships in giddying numbers: 500,000; 600,000; 700,000. The shows are really profitable at something like 185,000 “demo” viewers (25 to 54′s).
TPMtv is so funny today my face hurts from laughing:
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