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Taking a look at Disqus

The Bivings Report - Apr 4, 2008

The Bivings Report is built in Wordpress, which comes with a robust commenting system out of the box. Due to this, I’ve very rarely looked at third party commenting systems like Haloscan. I haven’t really had a comment …

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Things I would have blogged about if I had more time….

The Bivings Report - Mar 21, 2008

Been a busy week, with more ideas for blog entries than time to write them. Here are some of the things I wanted to write about this week but didn’t get to: Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow–Like AOL? Article …

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Lying with web traffic figures

The Bivings Report - Feb 14, 2008

Most people want to boil the success or failure of a website down to two easy-to-digest statistics. How many people came to my site? How many pages did those folks look at? Take those two numbers. Draw a line over …

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Why did the Fred Thompson Blog Work?

The Bivings Report - Feb 2, 2008

As most of you know, The Bivings Group was a part of the team that built Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign website. Our main client contact on the project, Michael Turk, has a good post up rounding up the good, the …

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The Fallacy of Using Inbound Links to Track Influence

The Bivings Report - Jan 19, 2008

This is cross posted from our ImpactWatch blog. In trying to measure blogs, a lot of people put a great deal of stock in inbound links. It might not be going too far to say that inbound links have become the standard …

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Bivings Report Wins Award of Merit

The Bivings Report - Dec 18, 2007

The Bivings Group recently won an Award of Merit from the Society for New Communications Research for our company blog, The Bivings Report. Here is the write up on our blog that was published in the New Communications …

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The New York Times and the Ideal Way to Handle Comment Moderation

The Bivings Report - Nov 14, 2007

Last week the New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt announced that the Times had begun allowing user comments on select editorials and news stories appearing on the website (via CyberJournalist). The Times has long …

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On the Ron Paul Supporter Ban at RedState

The Bivings Report - Oct 27, 2007

The conservative blog community RedState recently issued a ban on Ron Paul supporters from “shilling” for their candidate on the site. This led to a very entertaining exchange of arguments about the decision. Against …

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