Topic: independent media
This month we further refined our Google Adsense advertising to continue sustainably. We managed to sort out the code for the skeletal frame of the SAM site. It is pretty safe to say it adds authority to the site if only because people in government and business and the public expect to see an implicit financial model behind every activity in this world. More's the pity.
If we could do this without adverts we would by personal preference. This comes from our Adbuster reading days sub title - journal of mental environment.
This month we also had a 6 thousand increase in pageviews which is something like 20% increase. This puts us back to the 27,000 high of June 2008. Yes we can.
Notable stories this last month of course including the ongoing fatal conflict of Gaza with highly instructive meta analysis of local media coverage (eg discipline on local abc radio) particularly as it's a diaspora kind of thing both Arabic and Jewish. Especially teasing out the Yigal Amir factor on Israeli society (the Israeli assassin of PM Yitzak Rabin). And all increasingly of world security significance with a nuclear arms race in the offing.
Other important story topics included leak from the Addison Road Community Centre of email traffic indicating power struggles and criminal assault.
Other stories of note this last month included various NSW govt evolutions regarding Robertson and Sartor MPs; some local media figures Leak, Spencer, Ferguson; our departed father of the editor and Waverley Councillor Norman Lee; ex PM John Howard subject of massive 2003 anti war protest and ascension of Obama to POTUS;
We remain pleased with new livery of yellow, orange, red, with colour code for the advertising which we can control to some degree.
We claimed a first of exposing Katherine Wilson as the hoaxer of Keith Windschuttle via a crikey.com.au ezine string then writing it up here on 14 Jan 09. We also noticed the big media (abc and said ezine) pick up our long time tactic of counting up booze press adverts causing bias in news coverage. There was some holiday culture in there of reviews of old movie Rendition and catchup on some Michael Moore The Awful Truth.
Previous monthly reader pageview figures for 2007, 2008 verified by screen shot (web host provider monthly pageview account details) posted on or about 4th day of the month found in this thread:
- January 2009 - 27,462
- December 08 - 21,858
- November 08 - unavailable, host breakdown
- October 08 - 20,343
- September 08 - 20,746
- August 08 - 25,344
- July 08 - 22,855
- June 08 - 27,440
- May 08 - 25,046
- April 08 - 19,250
- March 08 - 20,803
- February 08 - 13,109
- January 2008 - 19, 898
- December - 11,627
- November - 10,220
- October - 9, 100
- Sept - 8,100 roughly, no screenshot
- August - 8,845
- July - 7475
- June - 9675
- May - 9, 059
- April - 12,087
- March - 6,684
- February - 5,372
- January 07 - 2800 3rd Jan - 3rd Feb 07
