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It's Not Good to be Neutral: CNN

Barack Obama

I guess you just can’t be in the middle when you’re covering news: “CNN, founded in 1980 and now owned by Time Warner Inc, has tried to hold the middle ground in its news coverage, a position that some blame for its ratings erosion, while ratings have risen for competitors Fox News and MSNBC, which blend news with opinion and political commentary.”

 

Digg’s Decline by the Numbers: Plummeting Traffic, Waning Power

Digg’s Decline by the Numbers: Plummeting Traffic, Waning Power

When it comes to releasing a new product, users and pundits’ opinions only count for so much, but numbers — including revenue and traffic– don’t lie... This week, the web analysts at Hitwise gathered data showing a 34% decline in visitors in the U.K. and a 24% decline in the U.S. in the past 11 weeks.

Senh: There's something wrong with these charts. Shouldn't the week of the relaunch of Digg v4 show at least a slight increase in traffic? During the launch date, the news media and bloggers were writing about it, which should result in a traffic spike.

 

4 Ways I Compose Posts to Drive Millions of Pageviews to Blogs Through Digg

With the release of the new Digg on August 25th, anybody with the ability to understand how a story, which is promoted to the popular section, is composed, has an edge in attaining viral exposure ranging from tens of thousands to millions of pageviews. Diggs users constitute a large proportion of bloggers. Thus stories promoted to their popular section, which was previously their homepage and now the Top News page, can attain anywhere from less than 10 to hundreds of links pointing to their websites.

 

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