Archives for November 2009

If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be “Worthless” Then?

November 24, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

As the war of words ramps up between Google and some news publishers, the latest spin seems to be how “worthless” the traffic is that Google sends. In reality, the traffic probably does have value, but the newspapers are likely doing a terrible job of monetizing it. I’ll give some examples in a minute, but […]

How Search Engines, Aggregators & Blogs Use News Content

November 23, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet, I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content automatically and through human editing. They seemed to find it useful, so I thought I’d share it more widely […]

How To Memorize The 50 United States On A Map

November 12, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

My fifth grader is having to learn US geography — in particular, to look at a blank map and write in the correct name for each of the states. I think that’s great. I love maps and geography. But that’s a lot of states. I’ve been sharing with him a number of ways I’ve somehow […]