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'BusinessWeek' Doesn't Want Your Stinking Page Views

Whatever you do, don't try to boost BusinessWeek's web traffic! Turns out they don't want your stinking clickthroughs. As a recent story subject discovered, should you be inclined to push traffic their way via a direct "deep link" to a story, the McGraw-Hill magazine will even go so far as to ask you not to link to their site, and point you to their snooty user agreement. This is pretty much the dumbest thing we've heard in the last, oh, two hours or so, and after the jump, we'll tell you why. More »

6:34 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Maggie
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Latest by N/A: The website staff only had their Christmas party two nights ago. Probably because there are some sort of discounts more »

Job Cuts Anyone at BusinessWeek know how many positions are going at the formerly peppy business magazine? Tip us. (There have been other cuts at McGraw Hill, the parent company, but we don't care quite so much about Aviation Week.)

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Portfolio Takes A Dig At Competition Via PhotoShop

Was Portfolio's production team projecting just a smidge when they chose to illustrate a column this month about the city's declining commercial real estate market with a "foreclosure"-stamped photograph of the Time-Life, Simon & Schuster News Corp and McGraw-Hill buildings? The buildings house most of Portfolio's big competitors: Time Inc.'s Fortune and Money, as well as McGraw-Hill's BusinessWeek. While we wouldn't put a little petty retaliation past editor Joanne Lippman, a bored (or clueless) photo editor is likely behind this one. Artful art there, kids!

10:50 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Maggie
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Latest by Joe Clark: Photoshop doesn't have an intercap. more »