Comments on: Slow News.com Year http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Josh http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96545 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96545 It’s definitely true for me that I’m gravitating to more focused blogs for my info.

But I dunno, are you reading too much into those stats to call it a trend? The News.com graph shows a slip from a peak of being ranked at #42 among all websites down to being #72. The gizmodo and wifinetnews sites by contrast show somewhat inconsistent traffic with gizmodo barely cracking #9,000 and wifinews generally dropping from a peak rating around #40,000.

Great to see Gizmodo getting well deserved increases in traffic… but it may be a stretch to say that its gains are related to a 30-seat slip for News.com.

]]> By: Luca Lizzeri http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96546 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96546 The Alexa comparison I like best and find most instructive is the Wikipedia against the Encyclopaedia Britannica:

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379&h=216&r=1y&u=eb.com/&u=wikipedia.org

My, how the mighty have fallen!

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96547 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96547 I’m glad to see Wi-Fi Networking News has crept up to 40,000 overall. We operate on a very very small budget with about a 20%-time writer and myself. So I’m pretty happy to be ranked that high!

]]> By: om http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96548 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96548 glenn – i am glad to see you are doing well. totally deserved. josh you bring up great points and i think that is the future i think

]]> By: Andy Baio http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96549 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96549 Be careful not to misinterpret those charts… It isn’t a chart of pageviews or traffic, but News.com’s overall popularity ranking compared to the universe of other websites. News.com’s traffic may be skyrocketing, but other newer websites may be creeping into the top 100. These sites might not compete with News.com at all, such as new search engines or web services.

]]> By: Om http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96550 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96550 andy this is more indicative of the trend than anything else. drill down the data and you see even readership per million is slipping and so are the page views. anyway i think we migh be entering an era of more “humane web.”

]]> By: John Roberts http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96551 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96551 Traffic to News.com has been quite steady during this period, actually.

The trendline reflects the move of Download.com and some other CNET Networks sites off of com.com. That network domain was never just News.com. Some of the CNET Networks sites have moved back to their own domain. Download.com is the largest, and hence has the most effect on Alexa’s judging of the domain — but it’s not reflective of a single site.

]]> By: Om http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96552 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96552 I am missing something here. Look at the traffic of Download.com – it is in its own world. It was no even part of the discussion. I am saying is that blogs – in fact the focused blogs are taking away the unique niche News.com had as the tech news source. Maybe because John you work at News.com you have a better insight!

]]> By: John Roberts http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96553 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96553 Om, look again at the URL you cited originally. Don’t just look at the graph, look at the URLs which make up com.com.

I’m saying that Download.com and TechRepublic and a few other sites are part of what you represented as News.com. Alexa correctly redirected news.com to news.com.com, but its traffic graphic shows all traffic to the main domain (com.com), not just a single site. Download.com.com is (by far) the largest proportion of that domain’s traffic.

Download moved their front door (big in of itself) back to Download.com, so the traffic for Download.com is only for the site’s front door. The interior pages are still on com.com.

com.com != *only* CNET News.com

That’s the main point.

]]> By: anil dash's daily links http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96554 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96554 bad trends for online tech journalism?

http://gigaom.com/archives/2004/03/slow_newscom_year.html...

]]> By: widdershins http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96555 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96555 Who knew?

As blogs, wikis, and other forms of small-scale self-publishing on the web continue to proliferate and gain in visibility and acceptance, more traditional media are starting to suffer. Om Malik points out CNET is losing readers, while Gizmodo and WiFiN…

]]> By: Technocapitalist http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96556 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96556 Rise of the blogs

These site statistics from alexa quantify the feelings I’ve been having about blogging’s effect on traditional news sources. When I really started to read a lot of news online, I would browse from web page to web page looking for…

]]> By: DiVERSiONZ http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96557 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96557 http://www.diversionz.net/archives/003278.html

Alright, here are some random diversions for your viewing pleasure…some serious, some not so serious. I try to please all

]]> By: DiVERSiONZ http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96558 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96558 http://www.diversionz.net/archives/003280.html

My three year old daughter told me last night–in her most serious of tones–that on St. Patrick’s day, everyone needs

]]> By: ctrl-ault-del http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96559 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96559 Quick to judge

As enthusiastic as I may be about blogging, I’m going to have to say the jury is still out with respect to the claim Om Malik is making on his blog in this post. A little bit of information is a dangerous thing. By way of Clock…

]]> By: azeem.azhar.co.uk http://gigaom.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96560 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/03/10/slow-newscom-year/#comment-96560 Blogs hurting news sites

Om Malik suggests that rise of blogs is hurting the traffic on different news websites. Right now it is, unsuprisingly,…

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