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...and Post.com Executive Editor Jim Brady is none too happy with you FishbowlDC leakers. You may notice there are no longer any specific traffic numbers in this e-mail. Sorry about that, but because someone thought it'd be fun to leak the last memo to DC Fishbowl, we'll have to keep these more vague going forward. Thanks, Jim Read the full memo after the jump... TRAFFIC INFORMATION Top Ten Videos in October: 'The Dragonfly' 3.5 gram Hovering Ornithopter In-Flight Camera Marine Corps Marathon - 2:22:18 - 3:00:00 Melting Arctic Sea Ice PostTalk: Ron Paul First-Generation Reciprocating Chemical Muscle 'Without the Video, It's Just an Attack' Washington Sketch: Gen. Pace's Military Sendoff Band Defies Stereotypes in China Top Ten Weekly Discussions in October: Carolyn Hax Live Chatological Humor Ask Tom The Chat House Celebritology Live On TV Got Plans? Reliable Source Talk About Travel Media Backtalk Most Popular Site Search Keywords in October: Ask Amy Carolyn Hax Obituaries China Immigration Syria Iraq Iran Froomkin Blackwater RECENT LAUNCHES The 2007 Holiday Guide (11/14) Post Rock, a music blog written by J. Freedom du Lac and David Malitz (11/12) A redesigned Politics page, plus a collection of new Politics features in the Campaign Toolbox (11/6) The Newstracker application for Facebook, which aggregates news from washingtonpost.com and other sources (10/31) A new widgets index page (10/23) A searchable database of presidential campaign contributions (10/17) A new Shopping section for local new and used products, including the Shop To It blog highlighting sales and other great finds (10/16) Live online discussions with presidential candidates (10/9) The 2008 Election Collection widget, which gathers information from our campaign events tracker, Post coverage database and fundraising database (10/5) Short Stack, a blog by Book World staff (10/5) The local blog directory, which lets readers find blogs about their neighborhood or a particular topic (10/4) TIP OF THE WEEK If you have trouble zeroing in on your search term in the results turned up by Google, select the cached version of the page. Your search term will be highlighted. WORTH A PEEK ClickZ.com has an interesting roundup (based on Hitwise research) of traffic to the presidential candidates' websites. OTHER NEWS Awards Washingtonpost.com received an Edward R. Murrow award for outstanding achievement in electronic journalism in the large market website category from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Jenn Crandall's onBeing won a Special Distinction Award in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The judges said of the video portrait series, "It's different. It makes you cry. Itâ€™s a model for the future of news." onBeing won a silver medal in the features category from the Society for News Design, which also awarded a gold medal in the non-breaking news category to Travis Fox's Crisis in Darfur Expands. Being a Black Man won an Online Convergence Award from the Associated Press Managing Editors. Washingtonpost.com was nominated for four Online Journalism Awards by the Online News Association. We were finalists in the following categories: Overall Excellence, Outstanding Use of Digital Media for OnBeing, Service Journalism for the Lean Plate Club and Investigative Journalism for Walter Reed and Beyond. While we didn't bring home any awards, we were happy to receive the most nominations of any site in the large-site category. PRESS ROOM Wash Post Edges Up Monthly List of Top 30 Web Sites (Editor & Publisher) Don Graham Gets the Internet and Facebook (Washingtonian) Washington Post Site Extends Winning Streak (TV Week) Washington Post in Web 3.0 Push (The Guardian) WaPo and the Freep Lead the Way (Columbia Journalism Review) Q&A with WaPo and USA Today: What's With the Widget Craze? (Editors Weblog) INDUSTRY NEWS MediaPost finds increased traffic to newspaper websites. The Century Foundation's Peter Osnos notes that the Web has allowed the Post to become "at last, truly a national news outlet." Ad Age talks about the relevance of total audience versus paid print circulation. PaidContent.org covered the economics of content panel at the Dow Jones Media and Money conference. Ad Age writes on media outlets flocking to Facebook. Slate's Tim Harford asks whether newspaper sites should charge for content. The Age discusses recent changes to Google's PageRank algorithm. Editor & Publisher talks about the importance of Facebook to news publishers. An interesting Nieman piece debates the value of anonymity and community on newspaper websites. Columbia Journalism Review discusses the government's role in the future of news. Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff reviews the evolution of media. BLOG BUZZ New Media Bytes highlights blogs (including some of ours) that succeed in attracting comments and building community. BuzzMachine examines new roles for editors online. Editors Weblog notes a study of newspaper sites' use of video. Poynter blogs about the future of user-generated content on news sites.

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