TRACKING TRAFFIC

Cyberjournalist.com points to some U.S. election night web site numbers: Washington Post up 98 per cent above average, Fox News 73 per cent more than average and so on.

Blogs, too.

Another genre of sites attracting large numbers of surfers were Web logs, or blogs, which increasingly flexed their muscles as an emerging source of election-related information throughout the 2004 campaign.

Several well-known blogs led the way, such as Daily Kos, a political-analysis site, which charted...a 250 percent increase from its historical Tuesday numbers. While ComScore did not have absolute numbers for Wonkette, another politically oriented blog, the research company said the site drew 240 percent more traffic than usual.

I spent a lot of election night on the net and was impressed how well it held up. A few sites went down early and stayed down, but almost all of the biggies (Kos, Atrios, Andrew Sullivan, Instapundit, etc.) were mostly accessible throughout the evening despite the traffic surge.
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ONLINE GOING ON-AIR?

I Love Radio is reporting some details of the satellite radio pitches being made to the CRTC. The CBC-Sirius proposal would add four new CBC feeds, two English and two French. Most interesting is that one of the English-language feeds would feature content from Radio 3, the innovative online magazine.
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FIGHTING BACK

Anyone who has read any of the political blogs in the wake of the U.S. election has read some pretty gruesome emails from other readers. (See Andrew Sullivan for an example.)

Oxblog has adopted a new policy for fighting back:

POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT: 99% of the email I get from our readers is civil, even when disagreeing with me, and I appreciate that. But 1% is not, and those really annoy me. So here's my new policy: if you sent me an uncivil email, I may well post, not only the email, but also your email address in hyperlink form. You have been warned: The wages of rudeness is spam.