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The old online editor at Portfolio, Chris Jones, is joining the digital side of nytimes.com. The last time we heard from Mr. Jones, he was fleeing the increasingly encroaching presence of the business side at portfolio.com.  read more »

According to internal traffic measures, the Web site of the New York Times broke single-day traffic records this week—then broke them again the very next day.  read more »

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. has been juggling two things when considering ads like the one that dominated the New York Times home page yesterday: good money from advertisers versus frustrated readers. His decision: to limit those ads to once a month.

Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis writes Media Mob:  read more »

Today, a big swath of the nytimes.com home page has been taken over by an Apple ad. Directly below the New York Times banner, there's a banner ad with a quote from The Wall Street Journal comparing Apple's Leopard software (favorably) to Windows' Vista . To the right, in a double-wide skyscraper ad placement, there's Justin Long and the PC guy; he climbs a ladder on the right and magically passes through to the top ad, adding the word "NOT" to the end of the Journal quote (get it?)  read more »