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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Month: May 2005

  • Post early and often

    Traffic patterns verify the benefit of posting early and often again and again, but interesting to see how Nick Denton quantifies it for his Gawker employees in the course of this NYTimes story where Denton once again tries to de-bunk the hype circle he’s earned (created?). Each editor is under contract to post 12 times…

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  • Seth Godin is drinking the Kool-Aid

    Seth Godin identifies a new digital divide, between the digerati and those who follow. Based on his criteria I qualify… should I be proud? More important question: are the digerati as influential as those of us in the echochamber all like to imagine? As a result, your most-connected, most influential customers are part of the…

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  • Walt covers RSS

    Walt Mossberg puts his intro to RSS column out there: “A Guide to Using RSS, Which Helps You Scan Vast Array of Web Sites” — doesn’t mention Newsburst, but you can’t have everything. It’s fair and a thorough intro to the concept for people who don’t know what RSS is… and he points folks to…

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  • Technorati updates State of the Blogosphere

    Well, actually it’s David Sifry who updated his State of the Blogosphere, but he’s CEO of Technorati and uses Technorati data as the raw material. It was about a week ago that was I complaining about the glitch in the data, and that has now been corrected. CNET News.com is listed in the 11th position,…

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