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Link wrap: Buffett steps down, Page steps up, blogger becomes minister

By Julie Starr | Published: January 21, 2011
Warren Buffett to step down from Washington Post Co. board Washington Post | Steven Mufson Warren E. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, said Thursday that he would step down from the board of The Washington Post Co. in May when his term as a director expires. Buffett, 80, has long advised Post Co.’s chairman [...]
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Links: FT app, Reuters video, online ad growth

By Julie Starr | Published: October 13, 2010
This is an absolute grab-bag of a few things I’ve read in recent weeks. I tend to tweet links to what I’m reading these days rather than blog them, but I found a few links languishing here in an unpublished post and thought I may as well top them up and hit Publish. Financial Times [...]
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Linking out ‘works’ for news sites

By Julie Starr | Published: July 20, 2008
Speaking of links, this is a nice little piece from a guy called David Eaves who has an SEO company in the UK. I won't pretend to be able to recreate the maths, but in essence he collected a few vital statistics for large mainstream websites - including incoming and outgoing links - threw them into an Excel spreadsheet and came up with a chart...
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Another subscriber says no to print – but yes to paying for news online

By Julie Starr | Published: April 2, 2008
Jimmy Guterman, editorial director of O'Reilly's Radar group, has bid farewell to his New York Times subscription. I think he articulates well what so many are thinking: "It was hard to say no to the Times. The quality was high, the thump of the paper on the sidewalk was a pleasant sound to hear first thing in the morning, I liked the serendipity of walking through a print section, and I felt obligated to pay for the paper at a time when print subscribers were becoming an endangered species.
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Traffic’s up, where’s the revenue?

By Julie Starr | Published: March 9, 2008
Nytimes.com and the Financial Times have both picked up traffic to their sites since dropping their paywalls but there hasn't been a corresponding rise in ad revenue, according to Silicon Alley Insider. A couple of interesting comments on the SAI piece.
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