25% service during DoubleClick attack

The hack attack launched on Tuesday against ad provider DoubleClick -- and the knock-on effect for its 900 customers -- left many of the world's most popular websites delivering content "less than 25 per cent of the time", according to monitoring company Keynote Systems. Targeting DoubleClick proved a clever way of subverting the touted strength-through-decentralisation of the internet.
Washington Post

Have you tried Newsbot?

They really need to sort out their stylesheets. What's with the paddingless picture wrap? Amusingly, the site works much better in Safari and Moz than in Internet Explorer on a Mac.

Format change calls for rate card based on impact, not ccms [reg req]

Summary of panel discussions at Nexpo from Editor & Publisher. Stig Nordqvist of the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association described circulation boosts at two recent tabloid switchers, and noted that an expected short-term drop in advertising revenue didn't happen. "A good tab, he concluded, sells ad impact, not millimeters." Elsewhere Allan Marshall argued that Metro, rather than cannibalising Mail readers, actually gets people into the newspaper reading habit, whereupon they progress "to a more serious read", namely the Mail on Sunday. Discussions also covered e-paper, digital editions, RFIDs and mobile communications (especially Blackberries).
(From Editor & Publisher)

New hardware kills old software at Chicago Tribune

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(From Editor & Publisher)

Popular news sites don't update that often

In a survey published in OJR of 30 newspaper websites in the US, only 12 were found to make regular updates (ranging from 60 to 200 per day) to their home pages. Five made virtually no changes and the remaining 13 only added breaking stories. Illustrates how many newspaper websites are still basically regurgitators of their print content and follow the same cycles. Article summarised in E-Media Tidbits, plus a little bit of controversy over what constitutes the home page of a newspaper website.
(From E-Media Tidbits)

Digital Edition circulation figures, USA

Some stats from Digital Magazine for digital editions in September 2003:
New York Times 3,172
Washington Post 424
USA Today 900
(From AOP UK)