Newspaper Websites Getting More Visitors for Longer Periods of Time

CNET  had an interesting blurb a couple of days ago about newspaper websites–more people are using them!

"The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent year over year during the third quarter, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales.

More than 59 million people,...

Startup Weekend: Can an Internet Company Be Built in a Weekend?

Startup Weekend is a project founded by Andrew Hyde, who came up with the idea to connect a "highly motivated group of small business entrepreneurs to build a community and company in a weekend."  Basically, Startup Weekend groups together web developers, designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs for a weekend to see what kind of Internet company they can come up with. ...

It’s all in a Name: 4 Hour Work Week

I'm at the New New Web conference in Reston and just listened to Tim Ferriss of 4 Hour Work Week fame speak during our chicken lunch.  His whole pitch is worth listening to but I was particularly interested in an anecdote he gave about how he came up with the name of his book....

IHT Shares Thoughts on Visitor Comments

Michael Cosentino over at the International Herald Tribune's Developer Blog shares some of his thoughts about comment sections on news sites — a topic that we cover in our newspaper study.  In his post titled "How are visitors using comments?" he shares some of the issues that he and his team have mulled over as they upgrade the comment section on their site. ...

news.bbc.co.uk Turns 10 This Week

Here at The Bivings Group we like news and Internet sites.  A news site interests us even more. 

The Internet and news sites have changed a lot over the last 10 years, and that's why it is fun to wish the site for BBC News — of the most well known — a happy tenth birthday this week. ...