Comments on: Maximizing Story Traffic With Half-Life Analysis http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/03/11/maximizing-exposure-for-stories-with-half-life-analysis/ Where Ideas For Online News Bounce Around Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Douglas Cootey http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/03/11/maximizing-exposure-for-stories-with-half-life-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Douglas Cootey Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:16:17 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/03/11/maximizing-exposure-for-stories-with-half-life-analysis/#comment-14 Fascinating article. Thanks for posting it on Twitter so I could follow it back and read it. With a 69 minute window, digg.com doesn't really allow for much capitalization. The digg effect makes most people spend that time keeping their site up, avoiding colossal bandwidth costs, and noticing digg readers don't click on ads. ;) Still, would be interesting to know how to plan for such popularity and take advantage of it.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-14">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Fascinating article. Thanks for posting it on Twitter so I could follow it back and read it.

With a 69 minute window, digg.com doesn’t really allow for much capitalization. The digg effect makes most people spend that time keeping their site up, avoiding colossal bandwidth costs, and noticing digg readers don’t click on ads. ;)

Still, would be interesting to know how to plan for such popularity and take advantage of it.

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