Web analytics firm Chartbeat says it is the first to be certified by the Media Ratings Council for a new way of measuring the actual attention of readers, as part of… Read more »
The outrage over clickbait is really just a symptom of the change from a one-way, broadcast model of journalism to one in which we actually know what readers want to read… Read more »
Facebook’s custom load balancing controller, dubbed Autoscale, helps distribute network traffic to the servers in a manner that can save 10 to 15 percent in energy on an average day. Read more »
The attacker redirected traffic to fool cryptocurrency miners’ systems into connecting with his “mining pool” — giving him the proceeds of their hard work. Read more »
The Washington Post saw record traffic to its website in July, and editor-in-chief Marty Baron credits the paper’s new digital projects and the addition of about 60 new editorial staff for… Read more »
The editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group says the newspaper has seen a large increase in traffic as a result of two strategies: focusing on Facebook more than Twitter, and devoting… Read more »
A startup that just raised $10.4 million in funding from NEA has me questioning the future of the best-effort internet. Here’s the scoop on IIX’s plan to change peering. Read more »
The attempt to use Reddit to drive traffic to its new online-gaming news destination worked wonders for CBSi’s website OnGamers, until the link-sharing community spotted what it calls vote manipulation and… Read more »
Gawker wants to add more staff and boost its traffic so that it can try to catch up to its nemesis BuzzFeed, but its ambitious Kinja commenting and community-engagement platform is… Read more »