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Thursday, May 28, 2009

City / Media Re: Talking Back to "State of the Start-ups"

Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM

Also in response to State of the Start-ups, Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman writes in an e-mail (bolds his):

Hi, Eli.

Just read your story on the online-only endeavors, and took note of the P-I again crowing about their traffic growth. You might be interested to know that by the same measurement tool, Omniture, unique visitors to Seattletimes.com for the month of April were up 16 percent (as opposed to PI.com's 1.6 percent) and our page views were up 20 percent. (Ask them about their page views.)

Oh, snap. A Times vs. PI.com page-view smackdown. I've sent an e-mail to Michelle Nicolosi, executive producer for SeattlePI.com, asking about her site's April page views.

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Dave Boardman should load Ryan Blethen into the trunk of his car and drive off a cliff somewhere.

Posted by Fnarf

on May 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Agreed.

And the car should be one of those clunkers - they blow up real nice.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM

And the folks at The Seattle Times wonder why they're so loathed.

Posted by I Got Nuthin' on May 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM

Even if these Seattle Times numbers are valid (let's see some screenshots, David - Omniture report filtering can tell you what you want to hear), the P-I is still putting up good numbers with a skeleton crew and no dead tree edition to back them up.

Posted by Bill Nordwall on May 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM