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I'm curious about how time spent on newspaper Web sites is measured. If the same kind of numbers are compared each time and they show a drop, that's a legitimate concern. But I wonder about how the total is measured. You usually see it as a small-seeming total, such as 20 minutes a month, which would come out to less than a minute a day. But I wonder about two things: 1. It's unlikely that very many people will visit the site at 3 a.m., and there's really about a 16-hour window of prime Web si… Continue

I've been such a prolific commenter at other blogs that I feel like I write more elsewhere than on my own blog at blog.syracuse.com/newstracker. My own blog right now is a messy workshop of experiments and spare parts. I'd thought I'd take advantage of this blogging feature at Wired Journalists and fill it with some random thoughts. First, a recommended link: RSS needs an Easy button… Continue