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Re:Our Adsense account was abruptly shut down on Friday September 28, 2012 @04:48PM (#4587723)
First of all, this has been going on for a month and I have been trying to figure it out. I have spoken with people across Google and no one seems to no how to fix the issue or even be able to access what the issue is.

I am not asking for sympathy, I am asking if anyone has experienced this and if so what they did.

Even our YouTube Account Manager said, "I have honestly never seen anything like this before"

I filled out the online form stating my case and received a reply in less than 4 hours. Stating that the account was still disabled.

Re:Good navigation starts with good content organization on Thursday April 12, 2012 @07:24PM (#3834633)
Just received an email from someone at my company with the link to a section on nav bar design page:

http://www.emediavitals.com/content/navigation-bar-design-4-...

Clicking on the first link to "Good navigation starts with good content organization" Took me to an 'article not found page'

Something about this site providing advice to newspapers is very odd...

Re:What's wrong with our website? on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:04PM (#3772583)
How skilled a developer would we need to handle these issues?
Re:What's wrong with our website? on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:02PM (#3772565)
We are doing tons of measurement. We use Google Analytics, Omniture, and Parse.ly. We are literally drowning in data.

I have only been in the industry a few years, but most newspaper websites that I come across do the same thing. We product 80-100 new pieces of content per day and it is very challenging to create a design that works.

About our Audience: Our audience is the 5 million residents in the Riverside, CA area. As we are right next to Los Angeles, we do not have dedicated local TV news. There are 13 other newspapers in our market, including the LA Times.

About 30% of our audience accounts for 80% of our uniques & page views. Traffic picks up around 9 and peaks around lunch.

We have seen one trend: Homepage -> article -> homepage -> article etc for the 'top stories'

What's wrong with our website?

I work on the digital advertising side of the newspaper, and don't know much about coding, but I get the feeling we could do more to improve the structure, design and user experience.If you could change one thing with pe.com, what would it be?

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No Comment: Another Newspaper Sold

Is it telling or amazing that the $110 Million acquisition of San Diego Union Tribune received only 4 total comments on the WSJ and NYT combined? Platinum Equity bought in 2009 for about $50 million turns around 2 years later and sells for 2X to an ultra-conservative hotel developer. Wow...poor San Diego.NYT:...

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IOS 5 Impact on Apps & Media

It just works...for AppleAt Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Apple announced iOS 5 to be released this fall for iPhone and iPad. Several 3rd party application developers and media companies will be impacted by these new features.We created a short video for fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyfR31Kdmo Enjoy! @onetomany & @izzygregorioNewsstand is described as a "new place on...

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