A day in the life of a dish
Posted on December 15th, 2003 by
The pledge drive is over, but the light workload continues. Today’s Daily Dish consists of:
Headlines: 34 words.
Quotes from Democratic Underground: 7 words.
Quotes for yet another whatever-award nominee: 46 words.
Quotes from newspaper articles: 330 words.
Quotes from a BBC listener in a call-in show: 61 words.
“Original” content: 765 words.
Original content: 60%, CTRL-C/CTRL-V: 40%.
Update: Likely challenged by our analysis, Andrew added many posts this morning. Survey says:
Headlines: 46 words.
Quotes from newspaper articles: 60 words.
Quotes for yet another whatever-award nominees: 959 words.
Original content: 331 words.
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