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Topix.net forums on fire: the Ni-chan paradox

5:28 am - March 31, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog
Back on December 12th, we released a site redesign that included user forums on each of our news pages. We were pretty psyched about this -- a chance to let our users “talk back” to the news seemed like...

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Citizen Journalism: Alive in Caruthersville

4:17 am - April 4, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog
Covering the news can be grim business. All of us know this intuitively -- at Topix.net we have the data: Last October, as Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we saw our highest traffic levels in 2005....

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The Walmart of Community

4:32 am - August 3, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog
At the end of March, we posted about the effects of removing registration from our forums and the "Ni-Chan Paradox ". But to be honest, at the time we weren't sure if it was just a phase of early...

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Design Force

5:09 pm - August 11, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog
Our latest redesign has been out for a week now, and we're really excited about the coverage and feedback we've been receiving. Users seem happy, finding the look crisper and easier to navigate. Blog and mainstream media coverage has...

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Ode to an Intern

9:10 pm - August 29, 2006 in Topix.net Weblog
It ain't easy being an engineering intern. One minute, you're at school, standing in the quad on a beautiful sunny day, throwing the frisbee and quaffing a cold one, and the next... you're in a fluorescent-lit jungle of cubicles with...

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