The Newspaper Association of America did everything they could to turn a 180 on the point my article about newspaper network Village Voice Media’s gaming of Digg in a recent new summary. Seriously, this is what they wrote. Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Increase Traffic The Digg Effect is alive and well. Village Voice [...]
David Brauer at MinnPost picked up on a recent comment from the Director of New Media at Village Voice Media, Bill Jensen, where he tried to downplay the charges I made about Village Voice Media gaming Digg this past week: Another VVM honcho, digital operations director Bill Jensen, dismissed Kohler’s charge that staffers game Digg’s [...]
Village Voice Media’s Minneapolis / St Paul Property online property, CityPages.com, appears to employ a series of photography kleptomaniacs starting at the top with the paper’s editor, Kevin Hoffman. Every once in a while, photographers in the Twin Cities will erupt in outrage over the user of their images without permission (aka stealing) by the [...]
This is the story about a girl that’s actually a dude who’s brought in 3.8 – 19.4 million visitors* to Village Voice Media websites by gaming Digg. Village Voice Media appears to be running an organized reciprocal Digg campaign using staff at their network of alt-weekly newspapers across the United States. Two Digg users, Ivanb [...]
When a local advertiser buys an ad in a local newspaper, they do so because they want to reach a local audience. That seems pretty clear. The local business has chosen to advertise in a local newspaper, magazine, or other printed media because they know it will be distributed within their community to people they [...]
Chow.com has a discussion (via Colin) about how to find James Norton’s weekly columns on CityPages.com. HuaGung pointed out that you can find Mr. Norton’s articles under the articles by author section of Advanced Search. Then someone mentioned that it would be sweet if they could subscribe to Jim’s columns. To do that, subscribe to [...]
Within Google Reader, if you click Discover > Browse and then search for “citypages” you’ll probably see something like this: Here’s what I see in the above screen shot: 1. CityPages main articles feed has twice as many subscribers as this hobby of mine (449 vs 216). You can help pad my stats by subscribing [...]
On October 11th, I posted a story here about the probationary status of 3rd District Republican candidate Erik Paulsen’s Wikipedia entry. Three days later, Emily Kaiser wrote the same story for CityPages, used my screenshot, and did not cite or link to the source of her story. UPDATE: Emily added a link an hour after [...]
Courtesy of CityPages. I’m guess there won’t be any winners in this contest.
Before continuing my Jucy Lucy expose, I’d like to clear one thing up: The Jucy Lucy is spelled J-U-C-Y L-U-C-Y. See an “I” there? I didn’t think so. However, there has been precedent set for including an “I” by Dara Moskowitz, who managed to misspell Jucy Lucy throughout a 1998 article on said burger in [...]
