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 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 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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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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FeedBurner is live, out of beta, the successor to their pre-alpha. Congrats to Dick, Eric, Steve, and Matt… and anyone else who’s joined the crew.

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CNET Networks makes the top 10 of this year’s Media 50, as designated by B2B Magazine. Chas gets quoted in the CNET write-up. Only weirdness is the web navigation on the B2B site, where each of the top 10 shows up as a link labelled Media 50 in the right-hand navigation… not very informative. I…

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Pete Clifton is the editor of the BBC News website, and he’s promising a “revolution” in RSS after the UK election. We’ve been a bit cautious about [RSS] up to now. “Personal use only” has been the mantra, but after a lengthy discussion with the BBC’s editorial policy department we are about to free things…

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Via Dennis, I see that TechDirt was chronicled in the, well, Chronicle. I missed this in the paper edition, so I’ll have to check the recycling bin. Dennis, I know we all share a lot on these blogs, but I don’t think anyone wants you to get TechDirty, no matter where you are working.

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The ill-named FreeNews is a mobile RSS reader for phones which support Java. But it’s not free. Read this thorough review from Robin Good, which has a list of other readers, too. Cherish his comment in the “To Improve” section re: FreeNews: Find a catchier, less common and ambiguous name for the product. Guess we…

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A welcome result from my Technorati search: finding Ken Norton’s new blog. And, through that, Suzanne Galante’s blog. Subscribed!

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