links for 2011-06-28

I've been experimenting with posting links and stuff to Tumblr as well as having a linklog on this blog

"Like The Daily Mail, The Guardian’s initial popularity with American readers was not cultivated but rather was the accidental byproduct of an aggressive online strategy back home."

"Now, you’d think that with a subject like tech, where The Guardian had an excellent reputation and a great editorial team (and I say that not just because I used to freelance for the tech section), there would be plenty of opportunity to widen out the advertising from recruitment to display ads, sponsorships, events, etc. But that’s not what happened."

"Figures compiled for Press Gazette state that the BBC news website had 11.14m online readers/viewers in May compared with 6.3m readers across the month for Mail Online in the UK."

"Recently we took another small step towards mutualising the Guardian website through our new artist pages in the music section. There are many more bands out there then we can cover, but we want to encourage and enable visitors to the site to find information about and have conversations about those bands."

It’s important to note the copied passages are not cited as quotes from their original source, which would be perfectly acceptable, but rather passed off as having been said in Hari’s own interview, complete with such dramatic additions as: “With a shake of the head, he says…” and “After saying this, he falls silent, and we stare at each other for a while. Then he says, in a quieter voice…”