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The Washington Post allegedly let a contract columnist go because his Web traffic had plummeted in recent months. Dan Froomkin, who authored the White House Watch blog, was fired in late June. (He’s since been hired by The Huffington Post.) According to an article in the NY Times: “The paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, said in a blog post that ‘reduced traffic played a big role’ in the decision. Fred Hiatt, the editorial page editor of The Post, told The City Paper that ‘his traffic had gone way down.’” IMHO much of Froomkin’s problem stems from the fact that he was a one-trick pony. He made his rep by attacking the Bush Administration. In hindsight, I guess it was inevitable that his page hits would go down after the inauguration in January. But not me. I love everybody. OK, maybe not Microsoft all that much. But everybody else. So spread the love and help me with my page hits. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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Putting aside the issues (1) whether Jenkins is really waiting to pounce on you if your traffic goes down, and (2) whether what you really need to watch out for is your standing with Jenkins’s equivalent of Charles Krauthammer (http://tinyurl.com/naqf9u), I’m curious: I am an RSS subscriber to your blog. You kindly provide full RSS feed, so it’s rare that I actually end up clicking on your blog, but I read every post you put up. Does an RSS feed count as a click?