Web users are lazy, selfish and ruthless

(Versión en español aquí.) Somebody brilliant said that, and if we need any proof we need look no further than a study by Comscore and the Newspaper Association of America. The data show that the 108 million unique users of newspaper sites in June 2011 spent an average of just over a minute a day, […]

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Why 10% of your web traffic is worth more than the other 90%

(La versión en español se encuentra aquí.) The blessing and the curse of the web is that everything is measurable. For reporters working in newsrooms that measure the traffic of articles on a minute-to-minute basis, it can be discouraging to see fluff trump substance. In some newsrooms, reporters are competing for raises and bonuses based […]

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