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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 [...]

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After about two months of searching CNN.com now has a new GM.
KC Estenson will join CNN.com as SVP and general manager beginning September 2, CNN announced today. He will be based in Atlanta and report to Susan Grant, EVP of CNN News Services.
Estenson currently is VP of digital media for Disney-ABC Cable Networks Group.
At [...]

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Nice to see Craig speak about his Election thoughts and promote the CNN iReport site.
I just noticed that our embedded player doesn’t give you any path back to the site, maybe something we want to take a look at.
cnewmark: Okay, I try the CNN iReport thing

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Update courtesy of the NY Times on the CNN.com T-shirt store and how we are doing selling our headlines.
The store pages for CNN.com’s T-shirts have recorded more than one million page views, suggesting a lot of curiosity. But chuckling at a headline T-shirt and actually paying for one are two different things. A CNN spokeswoman [...]

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Nice piece on how our traffic can impact our partners.  We added the "Mixx it" buttons recently to our stories and the unique visitor numbers for Mixx more than doubled.
May was a good month for social-news site Mixx. At the beginning of the month [May], CNN.com put “Mixx it” buttons at the end of every [...]

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Recognition for the CNN.com site and the new iReport.com site.
CNN received the award for finding new ways to gather and disseminate news and information, especially with its iReport initiative. iReport.com is the network’s first uncensored, unfiltered, unedited, user-generated online community. Its contributors receive recognition by having their material – once vetted and approved for use [...]

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