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By: Right Wing News

Right Wing News — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:50:11 +0000

Citizen Bloggers or Corrupt Operatives? By James Joyner
Garance Franke-Ruta has created quite a firestorm with her American Prospect piece "Blogged Down." Her argument, in a nutshell, is...

By: Mark J

Mark J — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:49:32 +0000

Also, DailyKos is more of a group blog or community blog than Instapundit, which is largely a Glenn Reynolds production, unless he's on vacation.

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:13:06 +0000

James, are you getting more search results? Search results would tend to lower the average, especially if they just click and leave.

As it is, Kos' "success" is something of a self-defeating kind. People of all stripes travel to Reynolds' site, sometimes despite his politics.

Kos, OTOH, doubtless gets most of his traffic from the echo chamber.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:28:57 +0000

Yeah--not sure what that means, exactly. My average visit length has gone down as my visits have gone up. I used to average something like 2:24 a visit.

By: Donald Sensing

Donald Sensing — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:11:27 +0000

Kos's average visit length is a mere four seconds, according to his Sitemeter. So is Glenn Reynolds's. OOTB's is 32 secs. OTOH, my site's average visit length is 51 seconds.

Not sure what it means, except that some sites are more glanced at than read.

By: JMOORE

JMOORE — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:44:58 +0000

Kos appears to be taking a page out of Karl Rove's playbook. However, I think Rove perceived something that Kos just doesn't get. The electorate has been moving, although very slowly, to the right for the past 6-10 years. Therefore, Rove was pandering to the same portion of the electorate as politicians always have...it was just that the electorate is slightly further right. If you take the inverse of that and have politicians pander left while the electorate is moving right, you get the proverbial trainwreck. Kos's politics may play well amongst party elites, but as we know the electorate is a different story.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:34:11 +0000

As far as Daily Kos getting more for ads and having more ad views, I think that can be explained away by the fact that Glenn does not have comments. Daily Kos does. Obviously comments result in a lot of repeat visits to posts meaning higher page view totals. People don't have much of an incentive to visit Glenn's posts more than once, unless he updates.

So really, ad revenue is a poor comparison.

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