The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:31:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 How To Make It On The Internet, Explained! http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-to-make-it-on-the-internet-explained http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-to-make-it-on-the-internet-explained#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:31:17 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-to-make-it-on-the-internet-explained LO...L?This in-house LA Times memo explains how to make it on the Internet. Two big stories blew away some previous benchmarks, it sounds like. One was the story about Obama bowing in Japan! That is because it was in 48pt type on Drudge, and was the biggest traffic day for the paper's Top of the Ticket blog ever, which covers, like Obama and stuff. Fancy that. The other traffic winner was about a bunch of local sports on Saturday. The future of newspapering, according to Tony Pierce, the LAT's blog editor? "So yes you should post on weekends. Yes you should post in the middle of the night."

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]]> LO...L?This in-house LA Times memo explains how to make it on the Internet. Two big stories blew away some previous benchmarks, it sounds like. One was the story about Obama bowing in Japan! That is because it was in 48pt type on Drudge, and was the biggest traffic day for the paper's Top of the Ticket blog ever, which covers, like Obama and stuff. Fancy that. The other traffic winner was about a bunch of local sports on Saturday. The future of newspapering, according to Tony Pierce, the LAT's blog editor? "So yes you should post on weekends. Yes you should post in the middle of the night."

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Matt Drudge: the early years.

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Matt Drudge: the early years.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/warning-contains-madonna-and-honey/feed 0 Geno, shh! http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/geno-shh http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/geno-shh#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:08:29 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/geno-shh A headline from the popular Drudge ReportWhat'd they do, put gloves on him? (Get it? Because Italians talk with their hands? Hahaha. Just kidding, our thoughts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy.)

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]]> A headline from the popular Drudge ReportWhat'd they do, put gloves on him? (Get it? Because Italians talk with their hands? Hahaha. Just kidding, our thoughts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy.)

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