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05 Feb 2011 21:21

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Politics: Sign of the apocalypse: Matt Drudge joins Twitter (finally)

  • Welcome to Twitter, Matt Drudge, a guy who may be the only person on the planet to claim that Craigslist has a better site design than his, while still scoring similar traffic. Hey Drudge, we’ll buy you a book on CSS if you want it. It’ll make your site load faster. source
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11 Mar 2010 23:11

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Politics: Andrew Breitbart: A conservative media rebel with a cause

  • The market has forced me to come up with techniques to be noticed. And now that I have them, I’m like, wow, this is actually great. This is fun.
  • Andrew Breitbart • In a lengthy profile piece in Wired, regarding his journalism techniques, his history as an Internet pioneer (he helped put The Drudge Report on the map and played a role in building The Huffington Post, whose leader, Arianna Huffington, used to be tight with Matt Drudge and Breitbart when she leaned right) and his empire. He’s flashy, he’s controversial and he gives divisive gonzo journalist James O’Keefe a paycheck. And the left hates him with the fire of a thousand burning suns. source
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05 Nov 2009 10:32

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Biz: Are Drudge and Reuters scratching each other’s backs?

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    times     the number of links The Drudge Report gave to Reuters the first ten months of 2005, after which Andrew Breitbart apparently nailed down a content deal
  • 2368 times the number of links The Drudge Report gave to Reuters in the two years after, tracking code included – where do we sign up, Reuters? (hat tip The Awl) source
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