The fall of Drudge is greatly exaggerated - Valleywag Comments

The fall of Drudge is greatly exaggerated

Pikers — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:14:05 PDT

JimbHo loved to inflate the page views on Bomis.

Pikers

The fall of Drudge is greatly exaggerated

Jordan Golson — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:07:19 PDT

@tigerbeat: That's true, but the autorefresh has nothing to do with Daily Uniques. It certainly affects his pageload statistics on his page though.

Jordan Golson

The fall of Drudge is greatly exaggerated

tigerbeat — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:02:54 PDT

As the post you link to notes, Drudge has an autorefresh which inflates page views.

And it still is a useful collection of links (an often overlooked reason for the site's popularity along with all the traditional media attention he got early on).

And then there is the traffic he sends to [www.breitbart.com]

Andrew Breitbart worked for Huffington as a researcher, then Drudge, then for the Huffington Post early on, and is working for Drudge again.

tigerbeat

The fall of Drudge is greatly exaggerated

raincoaster — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:00:19 PDT

Alexa? That's awesome! Is the portrait on that guy's About page a daguerrotype by chance?

raincoaster