links for 2006-11-18

• 100 years of newspapers – online and searchable
  (tags: search historical newspapers)

Registration scheme foiled …

Steve Outing posts on his behaviour in relation to the “first article free of registration” strategy a good number of pubishers have deployed.

We are actively looking at this.  From recent analysis there is evidence to support this theory – according to HBX - 92% of what we term “drive by” or causal users of the sites look at only one article during a visit despite there being very well targeted related artricles – 7% carry on so must be registered or register at this point.  Not sure what happens to the other 1%.