Page-view juicing is evil; Chicago citizen journalism market contines to get crowded; The Google phone; Free Nikon cameras

Pagination and Page-View Juicing are Evil
“In the long run, it’s not total HTTP requests that will determine how successful you are. It’s what percentage of any given population’s attention you earn. Don’t blow it by manipulating your readers.”

NYTimes admits photo was altered
“Growing concern about altered pictures in newspapers drew fresh attention today with The New York Times, in an editors’ note, revealing that this had occurred two days ago in the paper.”

National Library Week April 15-21, 2007
It’s national library week, so go hug your local librarians because they rule.
Triblocal
Man, the Chicago market continues to freak overflow with citizen journalism sites. I gotta say this effort from the Tribune isn’t the most impressive. I’m can’t put my finger on it, but ….It looks like a photoshop mock up of a drug company’s website. It doesn’t feel like a welcoming community yet. It should be interesting to watch the market and all the competition shake out. The winner will need to throw out the old journalism model and do this:

Build a network, not a destination
“The kind of network I’m referring to is a web of interconnections — links between content and between people. In essence, I’m arguing that on the Web, news organizations — perhaps, all media — should focus on building themselves “into the clickstream.”

Death and Taxes: 2008
Find out where’s your money is going in this infographic.

And it’s only the first quarter
Lucas breaks the quarterly announcements at media companies.

Nikon D80 Blog Army Update
Nikon’s giving D80’s to bloggers. Kinda like Microsofts’s free Ferrari laptop with Vista, but a bit more transparent. Speaking of blogging ethics…

On ethics, journalism blogging and the brave new world of media
Wil Harris discusses the challenges of journalistic integrity in the new age of conversational media. (via Wil Harris)

Google Phone will launch in 2007
“Taiwan based manufacturer HTC (High Tech Computer) has apparently begun manufacturing the Google Phone, with a shipment of 1 million units to be ready for delivery late 2007.” (via digg)Google to add Power Point style presentations to Google Docs
“While Google has web-based applications for word processing and spreadsheet management, the addition of a Power Point-style presentation application could be the final step in turning Google’s online office suite into a serious Microsoft Office competition.”

Say goodbye to the page view as an ad metric
“The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Nielsen NetRatings will drop the page view as a metric to measure web traffic and instead rely more on time spent on a site. ComScore, according to the report, will also begin de-emphasizing page views.”

Audience Measurement: Watch the Cookies Crumble
“Almost a third of Internet users delete “first-party” cookies from their computers at least once a month. Also, seven percent of users delete these cookies four or more times per month, comScore found.”

MySpace visitors to vote on what’s news - Los Angeles Times
“News Corp., which owns the world’s top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network, is introducing MySpace pages today that will present a massive number of articles and blog entries ranked by their popularity among its users.”

Video: Coping through journalism - Roanoke.com
Dude. The entire world is watching. Comb your freaking hair. (Via Ryan Sholin)eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
eBay’s back in the acquisition game!