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The Wired survey was also terribly flawed. Just one example: It lists my own
newspaper's online edition via Prodigy TWICE and we hadn't even been on
Prodigy since Dec. 31.
So why bring it up  now Joe? The data is worthless. You brought it up so you
could capitalize THE AMERICAN REPORTER at rank #10. 

--Jeff


At 12:30 AM 8/28/96 -0700, Joe Shea wrote:
>
>	As we established the last time we went through this, Eric's
>alleged Top 10 has no validity other than as something he "sampled" from
>visits to his site.  There is no methodology.  We're really hearing a
>promotional pitch aimed at the same people who made his Top 10.  Here is
>the Top 10 and beyond poll that was published in WIRED magazine in March,
>based on more than 25,000 responses; it was published first in AR.
>
>			*	*	*
>
>MEDIA
>+
>from Top 25 
>Online News Source Poll
>11/14/95
>popularity
>free
>
>	FINAL POPULARITY RANKINGS OF ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
>
>    1. NandO: Raleigh News & Observer (Raleigh)
>    2. San Jose Mercury News (San Jose)
>    3. Digital Ink - Washington Post Interchange(Washington DC)
>    4. Wall Street Journal (New York)
>    5. The Telegraph (London)
>    6. Detroit News (Michigan)
>    7. Boston Globe (Boston)
>    8. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta)
>    9. Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
>   10. THE AMERICAN REPORTER
>   11. Clarinet (newsgroup based)
>   12. Deseret News (Salt Lake)
>   13. New York Times TimesFax (New York City)
>   14. USA TODAY
>   15. Casper Star Tribune (Casper)
>   16. TimesLink via Prodigy
>   17. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
>   18. Chicago Tribune Online via America Online.
>   19. Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News
>   20. Philadelphia Inquirer / Phila Daily News (Philadephia)
>   21. Houston Chronicle (Houston)
>   22. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco)
>   23. Orange County Register (Orange
>   24. Lawrence Journal-World (Lawrence)
>   25. Observer & Eccentric Newspapers
>   26. Investors Daily
>   27. The Globe and Mail
>   28. Individual Inc
>   29. Home PC
>   30. Los Angeles Times Prodigy
>   31. Academe Today
>   32. @Home
>   33. Pathfinder
>   34. Editor and Publisher
>   35. www.warwick.ac.uk
>   36. CRAYON
>   37. Daily Northwestern
>   38. InfoSeek
>   39. New York Times on AOL
>   40. HotWired
>   41. Time Out (UK)
>   42. Inter@ctive Week
>   43. Irish Times (Dublin)
>   44. Tacoma News Tribune (Tacoma)
>   45. NewsLink
>   46. Observer Life magazine
>   47. CNN
>   48. K-State Collegian
>   49. VOA gopher site
>   50. Jerusalem Post
>   51. Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
>   52. Liberation (Paris)
>   53. Metro Newspapers
>   54. Chicago Tribune (Chicago)
>   55. Akron Beacon Journal (Akron)
>   56. Time Daily
>   57. Kentucky Kernal
>   58. Saskatoon StarPhoenix
>   59. L.A. Times on Prodigy
>   60. Tampa Tribune (Tampa)
>   61. London Free Press (London
>   62. MIT The Tech
>   63. Digital Missourian
>   64. OC Register
>   65. Orlando Sentinel America Online
>   66. East County Online(San Diego)
>   67. Evansville Courier (Evansville)
>   68. Newsday Direct Prodigy
>   69. Capital Gazette (Annapolis)
>   70. On Wisconsin Milwaukee Journal Prodigy
>
>	
>			       -30-
>
>			*	*	*
>
>	
>
>
>Best,
>
>Joe Shea
>Editor-in-Chief
>The American Reporter
>joeshea@netcom.com
>http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/today.html
>
>
>On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Eric K. Meyer wrote:
>
>> For 16 months, NewsLink has been sampling readers' opinions
>> about which online publications they visit most often. This isn't a 
>> popularity poll or a contest but rather an assessment of what people 
>> say they actually are reading. 
>> 
>> Because the results we report represent a weighted average of
>> sentiments expressed over the most 12 months, typically there's been
>> little change for month to month.
>> 
>> This month, however, our regular update sees quite a reordering of
>> the list.
>> 
>> Among the notables departing are four pioneers -- HotWired, C|Net
>> Online, Boston.Com and NandO.Net. And we see the arrival of four
>> relatively new sites -- the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,
>> Jerusalem Post and Christian Science Monitor.
>> 
>> Perhaps significantly, we note that as time has passed the
>> percentage of newspapers vis-a-vis networks and magazines on the Top
>> 10 list has been rising.
>> 
>> The complete hyperlinked version is at 
>> http://www.newslink.org/hot.html.
>> 
>> The unlinked list:
>> 
>>  1. New York Times 
>>  2. Los Angeles Times 
>>  3. Washington Post 
>>  4. CNN Interactive
>>  5. USA Today 
>>  6. Time 
>>  7. Jerusalem Post 
>>  8. Christian Science Monitor
>>  9. Electronic Telegraph 
>> 10. Wall Street Journal 
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>                   N E W S L I N K
>>   Online news research, consulting and publishing
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Eric K, Meyer               3,700 media links & more
>> meyer@newslink.org           http://www.newslink.org
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>     Preview acclaimed guide for online publishers
>>             Write to report@newslink.org
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