There are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn’t send people away or else they won’t come back to your site. Second, a page with links that sends people away has low engagement, which doesn’t serve advertisers well.
But if you actually look [...]
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Drudge Report: News Site That Sends Readers Away With Links Has Highest Engagement
September 16th, 2008 |
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Evolution of the Newswire on the Web
September 11th, 2008 |
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Jeff Jarvis has post today worth reading, about the emergence of the web as the new newswire and the trend away from traditional newswires like AP:
The old syndication model in the old content economy just won’t work today when all the world needs is one copy of a story up in the cloud with links [...]
Associated Press Hands Local And National News Sites An Opportunity To Get Links And Traffic
June 16th, 2008 |
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The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted — and the response from the blogosphere appears to be to boycott the AP, i.e. [...]
Calling all cartoonists
February 12th, 2008 |
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The news is always funny, but some artists have a clever way of making fun of the news.
This is to place to share your political and editorial cartoons. Your work could be featured on CNN.com.