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Web producers spend kabillions of hours optimizing and honing content for presentation on their news websites. But what about all those stories and photos that get sent directly to users via RSS?
What happens to your […]

Between my projects at MLive, my web business and my web identity (blog, Twitter, Del.icio.us, Wired Journalists), I’ve really been crunched to keep everything humming.
And I know I’m not the only one. I posted similar sentiments on Wired Journalists, a new social network for journalists created by Ryan Sholin.
A few commenters said they often feel […]

Yoni Greenbaum writes that this year’s presidential election cycle is and will be a big “traffic boon for newspaper websites.” And he’s right! I’ve noticed unique user spikes by the thousands on the nights of presidential primaries and also the morning’s of results. (photo by Just-Us-3)
But scoring users on event nights won’t necessarily mean you […]

Let’s face it folks, nobody is perfect.
I ran across a spelling error on the front page of the washingtonpost.com. This isn’t much of a big deal, other than the fact that the presentation of the Post online is the envy of many online news producers. I had a short excitement when I actually found a […]