The "wildly speculative" Felix Salmon piece [1] referenced in the contently post takes a look at some of the actual data that Abelson collected. Of note is the

The "wildly speculative" Felix Salmon piece [1] referenced in the contently post takes a look at some of the actual data that Abelson collected. Of note is the chart showing how relatively accurate predictions can be made about how many page views a given article will have based on a few simple variables (e.g. did the main NYT Twitter account tweet a link to the article, etc). However, I'm not sure I grok Salmon's angle of it being a bad thing that the NYT almost exclusively promotes proprietary content over stories off the AP/Reuters news wires. [1]http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/11/15/how-the-nyt-neglects-business-journalism/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/11/15/how-the-nyt...