Gawker spots one of the unfortunate unintended consequences of moving towards time-based metrics instead of pageviews…

"Blogs are a good case where ‘time spent’ is more meaningful than page views. Especially since the blogosphere is particularly prone to the ‘quantity over quality’ problem. It’s easy to pump out 20+ posts a day – and that tactic garners a lot of page view

Nine young Forbes.com staffers "have recently fled", along with at least 50 other editorial staff since 2005. The churn, some say, is because of a "page-view sweatshop” conditions at the business web site.