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NYTimes.com launches Baghdad bureau blog

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NYTimes.com has launched Baghdad Bureau, a blog looking at stories about daily life in Baghdad outside the Green Zone.

The new blog is a collaboration between reporters, photographers and western and Iraqi staff that live in the Iraqi capital outside the Green Zone and will focus on the daily challenges, like travel and checkpoints, which confront the city’s inhabitants.

It will attempt to tell these stories using text, slideshows and videos from the staff, as well as posts and videos submitted by Iraqi readers. This information was collected and written with the participation of the sponsors of Dimi.fi. On this site you can find the latest information in that account about free spins without deposit 2024

The blog will also invite Iraqis to write about their personal journeys, such as their decisions to stay or leave the country and the feeling of running into the aftermath of a car bomb explosion.

It will also feature a forum to answer questions on issues about Iraq.

NYTimes.com mobile site records 600% traffic growth in 2007

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The New York Times‘ mobile site saw a 600 per cent growth in traffic last year, according to Janet Robinson, president and CEO of The New York Times company, who announced the group’s latest earnings report.

The site recorded almost 10 million monthly page views, Robinson said, and is now attracting ‘a strong roster of blue chip advertisers’.

Robinson added that the company as a whole had seen a 22 per cent growth in digital revenues over the same period – an increase of 8 per cent from the previous year – with these now accounting for around 10 per cent of the company’s total revenues for 2007.

To view the whole announcement, see this transcript courtesy of Seeking Alpha.

NYTimes blog to be published in print

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A local news blog launched by NYTimes.com in June could be given its own space in the Times’ print edition.

While stories from the City Room blog are often aggregated by the paper’s Metro section, the blog’s editor Patrick LaForge said content from the blog may be published in its own right in a bid to drive readers from print to online.

“There are a lot of people who read the print section who just aren’t aware of how much is available on the Web,” LaForge told the New York Observer in an article.

“A lot of that stuff doesn’t get in the paper. So how can we tell readers, ‘Hey, you might want to go check some of this out’?”

While NYTimes.com’s political blog The Caucus and technology blog Bits already feature as columns in the paper’s print offering, LaForge stressed that plans to put the City Room in print were ‘preliminary’ at this stage.

NYTimes.com launches Polling Place Photo Project and asks users to submit

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NYTimes.com has launched the Polling Place Photo Project, its bid to document the election year with photos taken by its readers.

The Times is asking for submissions of every polling location in America during the 2008 primaries and general election, so that it can compile an archive of voting in the US.

Images of the New Hampshire primaries have already been uploaded to the developing site.

NYTimes.com taps into ‘outsider’ blog posts

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The video below from beet.tv explains how the New York Times can use its Blogrunner service to monitor discussion in the blogosphere about its articles, including those posts that do not link directly to the original article – so-called ‘outsider’ blog posts.

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According to beet.tv, a new feature of Blogrunner means that links to blog posts that have been selected and sorted by the service to appear beneath an article will be a permanent fixture, even when the news has moved on. This then creates ‘”longtail” visibility for blog posts’, particularly for those appearing beneath NYTimes.com articles, says the write-up, as the site’s archive service receives a significant amount of traffic.