OK a nice write up on CNN.com today on the AJC site but they have a few facts wrong. First the site started in 1995 – I can say that with certainty since I was here. Second is that we launched a new iteration of the site last year, not two years ago – again I was here.
There are a few good bits of data at the bottom:
Web data for June 2008 (includes mobile, podcasting, online video)
Good for TVNewser – they have the correct information in their mention.
We have added another way to follow a story, one that makes it easy to track how a story develops over time. Here is a quote from one of our Senior Producers -
“(Backstory is) a quick way to catch up on how a story has developed over time,” explains CNN.com senior producer Rachel Clarke. “Now, when we want to give history, context and background to a developing story, we go back through our archives to find ‘milestone’ events and then link those together in an interactive window.”
Lost Remote has a nice bit on CNN.com and its performance in June.
Nielsen Online recently named CNN.com the Internet’s No. 1 news gateway, with the site’s home page generating 60 percent more unique visitors than those of its competitors. During the month of June, CNN also experienced record-setting traffic to iReport.com, the network’s uncensored, unfiltered, unedited, user-generated community Web site; and CNNMoney.com, CNN’s exclusive business site, generated an 1800 percent increase in video streams served versus last June. (Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst, U.S. and International editions combined).
You can read the entire press release in the Lost Remote article but it covers CNN.com, CNNMoney.com, iReport.com and CNN Mobile. All of these help comprise the CNN Digital Network, which is always in the top few news sites, competing with MSNBC and Yahoo.
Also a few days ago Lost Remote wrote a piece on the effect CNN.com can have on traffic as they have begun linking to external sites.  They compare a link on the CNN.com homepage as similar to the Digg effect on tech stories, where a mention gets you a ton of traffic and exposure in general.
A couple of employees from the CNN.com crew plan to drive from California to Georgia on biodiesel fuel.
We’ll be testing GPS navigation gear and other cool gadgets to see how they work during a real road trip. But because it’s a road trip, we’ll also be camping and enjoying some of the most spectacular sites in the Southwest and Southeastern United States. And we’ll be asking CNN.com users to suggest destinations and to vote on where we travel.
Cody and Brian have both been here for years and it will be interesting to follow their journey across the country in Cody’s 1978 International Harvester Scout.
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