Links from MSM sites: All bark, no bite
Couple of weeks ago, I got a link to my Coach K commercials rant from CBSNews.com. The CBS News blog journalist, Melissa McNamara, was nice enough to send me an email, and I was pretty excited about the whole thing. I e-mailed my dad, e-mailed Evan, and generally beat my fists to my chest.
Then I checked my website’s stats and found what Alex Halavais found two months ago: links from mainstream media websites are basically worthless.
Over the span of a, I got 12 hits from CBS. Twelve. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
For reference’s sake, I got 26,000 hits from College Humor in one day.
Welcome to the party, New Media. Your aging Uncle Mainstream is wheezing in the corner and trying to catch his breath.
April 5th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
No offense meant to anyone but being linked from Melissa McNamara’s blog round up ain’t exactly the home page of the New York Times.
So comparing her to CollegeHumor.com isn’t exactly fair.