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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Is the Internet Ready for Michael Jackson’s Funeral?

michael-jacksonMichael Jackson’s funeral service starts at 1 pm Eastern today and you will have to try very hard not to see it: In addition to wall-to-wall coverage on the news channels, any Web site capable of live-streaming the event will be doing so. Is the Internet ready for the coming traffic jam? I’m betting it is.

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Is Bigger Better? Here Come the Supersized Web Ads.

super-size-me-dvdEarlier this year, an online publishing trade group promised to get its members to start running new, bigger, harder-to-ignore ads by July. So here they are: The Online Publishers Association says 37 sites, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN.com, will start selling the plus-sized ads this week. Now we’ll see if they work.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

CNN: We Don’t Need YouTube and Twitter to Tell Us What’s Going on in Iran–We’ve Got iReport

iran-ireport-cnnThe “Iran is Twitter’s defining moment” meme is losing momentum to the “Iran is YouTube’s defining moment” meme. But CNN has a different spin. Time Warner’s cable news channel wants us to know that it isn’t dependent on either the micromessaging service or Google’s video site to report on what’s happening in Iran–it has iReport.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Obama’s Big Day on the Web: Smaller Than You Thought

Barack Obama’s inauguration was indeed a big day for Web video. But it appears as if the Internet audience wasn’t nearly as big as the one that watched it on TV. The people who run MSNBC.com, CNN.com and Foxnews.com aren’t complaining, though–they all saw huge increases in traffic.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

How Many People Watched Obama’s Inauguration on the Web? A Lot.

Was Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration a big day for Web video? Yes. Was it a record day? No one knows. That’s because Web video metrics, which are supposed to be much more precise than television’s, are still pretty raw.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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