On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 7/5/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Alexa shows CNN dropping like a lead balloon, No. 38 today (they are ranked 27). Perhaps they welcome a dig at the competition. BTW we are even with Amazon these days.
Alexa's numbers are inconsistent. Don't count on them for anything.
There certainly are some strange phenomena but there is a pattern. There is a generational change with canned goods going down and participatory sites going up.
CNN *is not* our competition! Not even of Wikinews! We are *tertiary* sources, i.e. we summarize and coordinate what secondary sources make of actual facts on the ground (i.e. primary sources). We'd be impoverished and in trouble without CNN, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and all the rest of the "mainstream media" - We Don't Have The Money To Pay Reporters - and even if we did, that's not our purpose.
Jesse Weinstein