The Atlantic: Why I Blog
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 10:44
Essential reading on writing online from Andrew Sullivan: "Writing in this new form is a collective enterprise as much as it is an individual one—and the connections between bloggers are as important as the content on the blogs. The links not only drive conversation, they drive readers. The more you link, the more others will link to you, and the more traffic and readers you will get. The zero-sum game of old media—in which Time benefits from Newsweek’s decline and vice versa—becomes win-win."
Monday, 5 May 2008, 20:46
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"The Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead has formally called for an apology from US website the Drudge Report for breaking the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan." Don’t hold your breath, councillor…
Monday, 3 March 2008, 13:27
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"Matt Drudge … remains an elusive, mysterious figure but the internet pioneer is arguably the single most powerful journalist – though his detractors even deny that is his occupation – in the world."
Thursday, 17 January 2008, 18:38
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"On the night of January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge revealed that Newsweek editors had spiked a story about Bill Clinton and an intern named Monica Lewinsky."
Friday, 4 January 2008, 22:01
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"Matt Drudge’s eponymous website should be booming. So why is site traffic dragging? comScore says the site attracted 1.5 million unique visitors last November, down 10% y/y. "
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 17:10
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"The fact that Portfolio has taken to advertising its articles on Drudge seems very interesting to us."
Monday, 17 December 2007, 16:23
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What’s The Drudge Report worth? Up to $10m, apparently: "Drudge wouldn’t talk to us, but we sat down with three experts at media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips … to come up with some numbers."
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 13:04
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They just noticed that Sky News interview with Drudge, who said: "One of the reasons I’m in London is that the media here is unparalleled. It surpasses New York, it surpasses all the cities of the world. This is the media town."
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 13:18
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Dan Sabbagh’s media column covers some Google’s Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge’s effect on Mail Online’s traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 08:25
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"He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton our next president. And he has America caught in the grip of his contradictions."
