Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.What will the news site of the future look like? No one can be sure - well, at least I can’t. But the execs deciding the future of news sites should take a hint from VC web startup enthusiast […]
I admit it. I’m a stats junkie. I love watching reader trends and feed subscription rates. I can’t get enough. But I know that isn’t necessarily helping me become a better producer. I know stats aren’t helping me become a better writer.
What I really need to know: What do my site users/readers want?
I am guilty […]
Note before reading: I’m no Digg samurai, only a social media ninja! Please correct me of any misstatements, and forgive my oversimplifying the issue
You may have heard, Digg.com restructured it’s algorithm. If you’ve ever dropped a crossword puzzle from your newspaper comics page or gone through a redesign, you can probably guess - users don’t […]
Before going to bed, I noticed that the front page of msnbc was down. Usually, I don’t bother contacting anyone about this type of thing because they are often brief glitches that no producer wants to be caught with. But when I woke up, it was still there. So I thought I should say something.
Sadly, […]
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