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Getting to Jordan
Jordan is served by daily nonstop flights from London and easy one-stop connections from around the UK, as well as nonstop routings from major European, North American and Southeast Asian hubs.
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Queen Alia International Airport in Amman (AMM) (w aig.aero) handles almost all incoming flights to Jordan. A few flights arrive at Aqaba (AQJ) (w aac.jo), which is linked to Amman by daily short-hop shuttles on the national carrier Royal Jordanian.
When to travel
The best times to visit Jordan, weather-wise, are spring (March–May) and autumn (Sept & Oct), although this is also when air fares and package deals are at their most expensive. In summer you face the disadvantages of heat – though it's rarely extreme – and the peak season for tourism from the Gulf countries (as well as the holy month of fasting, Ramadan, which falls in June and/or July each year until 2016). Winter, when fares are lower, can be chilly for sightseeing.
Air fares also peak in the periods surrounding major Islamic holidays such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, when thousands – or, in the case of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, millions – of people are on the move. For weeks before the hajj (which takes place in Sept/Oct until 2016), whole planes get block-booked for pilgrims on many routes into the Middle East – not just flights into Saudi Arabia, but also connections via Jordan and neighbouring countries. For two weeks after the pilgrimage, few planes out of the region have spare capacity. It pays to check when Islamic holidays are due to fall; book well ahead if you want to fly at or near those times.
One thing to watch when planning an itinerary is your scheduled arrival time: many flights from London, for instance, are afternoon departures, landing in Amman in the late evening – which means your head may not actually hit the pillow until midnight or later. In addition, many return flights to London take off from Amman at breakfast time, necessitating a pre-dawn wake-up call.
Flights from the UK and Ireland
Flying to Amman from London there are nonstop flights daily from Heathrow on Royal Jordanian (w rj.com) and British Airways (w ba.com), and thrice-weekly from Gatwick on easyJet (w easyjet.com). With a bit of flexibility, return fares can be had for £200–250 – though if your dates are fixed or you're booking at short notice, expect to add £100 or more to that. The flight time is five hours.
If you're starting from elsewhere in the UK or Ireland you could opt for a shuttle flight into Heathrow or Gatwick to pick up a connection, or explore options on Lufthansa (w lufthansa.com) via Frankfurt, Austrian (w austrian.com) via Vienna or Air France (w airfrance.com) via Paris. Alternatively Turkish Airlines (w thy.com) has some decent fares from Birmingham, Manchester and Dublin to Amman via Istanbul.
Holiday charter flights formerly operated weekly from Gatwick to Aqaba, but were axed in 2011 and show no signs of resumption.
Flights from the US and Canada
From North America, Royal Jordanian flies nonstop to Amman from New York, Chicago and Montreal, plus one-stop direct from Detroit. RJ's codesharing deals offer good connections from a range of other cities. Delta (w delta.com) flies from many US cities to Paris, and from there onward to Amman codesharing on Air France. United (w united.com) offers good connections with European airlines such as Lufthansa and Austrian, while British Airways (w ba.com), Air Canada (w aircanada.com) and others also fly (or codeshare) from major cities with a change of plane. Turkish Airlines (w thy.com) has nonstop flights from Chicago, New York, Washington and Los Angeles into Istanbul, for a shuttle onward to Amman. EgyptAir (w egyptair.com) does the same from New York via Cairo.
Expect a round-trip fare in high season of around US$1000–1400 from the east and Midwest, US$1600–2000 from the west, and C$1100–1800 out of Canada. All these drop slightly in low season. Flight time is eleven hours from the East Coast or fifteen hours from the West Coast, not including stops on the ground.
Flights from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
There are no direct flights to Jordan from Australasia – though, thanks to code-sharing, it's relatively easy to put together a one-stop routing: Qantas or Thai to Bangkok, for instance, then direct to Amman with Royal Jordanian. Pricier alternatives include Emirates via Dubai or Etihad via Abu Dhabi. From South Africa you're looking at one-stop routings on Emirates, Etihad, Qatar, EgyptAir or Turkish.
Return fares from Australia are likely to start around A$2000; add A$500 or more in high season. From New Zealand, reckon on NZ$3000–3500, and from South Africa around R6000–9000.
Organized tours
Many organized tours follow a fairly set pattern – a week or so in Jordan, comprising stays in Amman, Petra, Aqaba and/or the Dead Sea, with sightseeing on the way and excursions to sites like Jerash and Wadi Rum. The advantage of these packages is that they get you a good-value flight-plus-accommodation deal; by booking a tour in advance you can end up staying in posh hotels for bargain prices. The disadvantage, of course, becomes clear if you fancy an extra day or two on your own to explore Petra once you get there.
Where fixing up an organized tour really comes into its own is if you have a particular kind of holiday in mind. If you want to know all about Jordan's archeological sites or learn how to scuba-dive, or if you have your heart set on seeing a Sinai rosefinch (Jordan's national bird), specialist tour operators can sell you ready-made packages or tailor-make a tour to suit your requirements. Adventure companies can often throw in activities such as camel-trekking, desert camping or snorkelling, and many operators specialize in pilgrimage tours to sites of biblical interest. You can also arrange tours directly with specialist tour companies in Jordan.
Tour operators in the UK
General cultural/historical
Abercrombie & Kent
t 0845 485 1529, w abercrombiekent.co.uk. Upmarket tailor-made trips.
Ancient World Tours
t 0844 357 9494, w ancient.co.uk. Archeological and historical itineraries.
Andante Travels
t 01722 713800, w andantetravels.co.uk. Small-scale, personalized, expert-led archeological/historical tours.
Audley Travel
t 01993 838000, w audleytravel.com. High-quality tailor-made trips both on and off the beaten track, with a special focus on the nature reserves.
Bales Worldwide
t 0844 488 1193, w balesworldwide.com. One of the biggest operators to Jordan – a family-owned company offering a wide range of escorted tours as well as tailor-made itineraries.
Cox & Kings
t 0845 564 1985, w coxandkings.co.uk. Highly respected and long-established company offering gilt-edged cultural and historical tours.
t 01728 861133, w dragoman.com. Extended overland journeys in purpose-built expedition vehicles; several itineraries pass through Jordan.
t 0800 781 1660, w intrepidtravel.com. Breezy itineraries for independent-minded travellers.
Jordan Tours
t 01446 774018, w jordantours.co.uk. Small tailor-made firm with the personal touch.
Kumuka Worldwide
t 0800 389 2328, w kumuka.com. Soft adventure trips and overland expeditions around Jordan and the Middle East.
t 0844 488 0578, w kuoni.co.uk. Large holiday operator, with a range of trips to Jordan.
Longwood Holidays
t 0844 770 4877, w longwoodholidays.co.uk. Good range of cultural tours, flying into Amman, or Ovda (near Eilat, Israel).
Martin Randall Travel
t 020 8742 3355, w martinrandall.com. Small-group cultural tours, led by experts on art and archeology.
Mosaic Holidays
t 020 8574 4000, w mosaicholidays.co.uk. Long-standing Jordan specialists, with a range of group tours and tailor-made cultural journeys that benefit from great local knowledge.
On The Go Tours
t 020 7371 1113, w onthegotours.com. Highly respected firm offering lively, expertly guided group tours, as well as tailor-made trips and unusual, insider angles on exploring Petra.
Original Travel
t 020 7978 7333, w originaltravel.co.uk. Short breaks and family holidays to Jordan.
Scott Dunn
t 020 8682 5475, w scottdunn.com. Luxury tailor-made tours, staying in some out-of-the-way corners.
Steppes Travel
t 01285 880980, w steppestravel.co.uk. Expertly prepared tailor-made trips.
The Traveller
t 020 7269 2770, w www.thetravelleruk.com. Historical, archeological and cultural tours led by expert lecturers.
Titan HiTours
t 0800 988 5823, w titanhitours.co.uk. Classic escorted tours of major historical sites.
Travelsphere Holidays
t 0844 567 9966, w travelsphere.co.uk. Well-designed holidays to Jordan's major sites.
Voyages Jules Verne
t 0845 166 7003, w vjv.com. Major Jordan operator with years of experience, offering a range of innovative, well-thought-out holiday options.
Adventure/outdoors specialists
Adventure Company
t 0845 287 6627, w adventurecompany.co.uk. Guided soft adventure trips for individuals and families.
ATG Oxford
t 01865 315678, w atg-oxford.co.uk. High-quality outdoor itineraries, including excellent long walks with some of Jordan's best walking guides.
t 0845 869 9160, w exodus.co.uk. Small-group adventure tour operators, featuring walking, trekking, scrambling and cycling for individuals and families.
t 0845 291 4541, w explore.co.uk. A wide range of small-group tours, treks, expeditions and safaris, staying mostly in small hotels or bedouin tents.
Families Worldwide
t 0845 051 4567, w familiesworldwide.co.uk. Specialists in adventure holidays for families.
t 0845 564 7148, w headwater.com. Guided walking tours to remote corners of Jordan.
High Places
t 0114 268 7760, w highplaces.co.uk. Great-value trekking and climbing in Wadi Rum and Petra.
Hiking World
t 01540 673402, w hikingworld.org. High-quality hiking trips in some far-flung corners of Jordan.
Imaginative Traveller
t 0845 867 5954, w imaginative-traveller.com. Well-respected adventure operator with a good range of tours.
KE Adventure
t 017687 73966, w keadventure.com. Good range of treks and adventure tours.
t 01962 733051, w naturetrek.co.uk. Small-group birdwatching and botanical tours of Jordan with expert guidance.
Nomadic Thoughts
t 020 7604 4408, w nomadicthoughts.com. Tailor-made trips to Jordan.
t 01457 873231, w nomadstravel.co.uk. Small operation run by Tony Howard and Di Taylor, the British climbing duo who opened up Rum to international tourism in the 1980s. They provide detailed, knowledgeable advice on all aspects of independent exploration of Jordan's wilder corners.
Peregrine Adventures
t 0845 004 0673, w peregrineadventures.com. Range of tours offering Jordan and its neighbours.
t 01707 331133, w ramblersholidays.co.uk. Great walking holidays.
Tribes Travel
t 01728 685971, w tribes.co.uk. Tailor-made trips that explore Jordan's natural environment, working with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature.
Walks Worldwide
t 0845 301 4737, w walksworldwide.com. Leading walking and outdoors operator to Jordan, with a broad range of tours to suit all levels of capability, including family trips.
Wild Frontiers
t 020 7736 3968, w wildfrontiers.co.uk. Adventure trips into the desert.
Wildlife & Wilderness
t 01625 838225, w wildlifewilderness.com. Tailor-made trips focusing on culture, walking and nature.
Diving specialists
t 020 8398 0505, w aquatours.com. Jordan diving specialist, combining underwater trips with cultural itineraries.
Planet Dive
t 01273 921001, w planetdiveholidays.com. Good range of dive options at Aqaba, plus side-trips to Rum and Petra.
Horseriding specialists
Equus Trails
t 0845 269 2609, w equus-journeys.com. Petra and Rum desert rides.
In The Saddle
t 01299 272997, w inthesaddle.com. High-quality tours around Petra and Wadi Rum on horseback.
Ride World Wide
t 01837 82544, w rideworldwide.co.uk. High-quality horseriding holidays in Wadi Rum.
Unicorn Trails
t 01767 600606, w unicorntrails.com. Horseriding holidays in the Wadi Rum desert.
Pilgrimage tours
Guiding Star
w guidingstarltd.com. A leading pilgrimage operator with offices in Jerusalem and Amman, founded in 1961. Combining Christian sites with adventure excursions and cultural exploration, they are exceptionally well connected, and can design a unique itinerary on request.
Maranatha Tours
t 01753 689568, w maranatha.co.uk. Specialist in biblical pilgrimage tours to Jordan and around the Middle East.
McCabe Pilgrimages
t 0800 107 3107, w mccabe-travel.co.uk. Pilgrim tours to Jordan.
Worldwide Christian Travel
t 0845 458 8308, w christian-travel.com. Biblical and pilgrimage tours.
Tour operators in North America
Abercrombie & Kent
t 1 800 554 7016, w abercrombiekent.com. Fully escorted luxury tours to Jordan and its neighbours.
Adventure Center
t 1 800 228 8747, w adventurecenter.com. Hiking and soft adventure specialists, with a wide range of options including cultural tours, walking, cycling and more.
Adventures Abroad
t 1 800 665 3998, w adventures-abroad.com. Small-group adventure specialists.
Ancient Adventures
t 1 800 353 4978, w ancientadventures.com. A range of tours all round the Middle East.
Bestway Tours
t 1 800 663 0844, w bestway.com. Cultural specialists.
Caravan-Serai Tours
t 1 800 451 8097, w caravan-serai.com. Leading specialists to the Middle East, with a range of excellent, culturally aware tours to Jordan and all across the region. Owned and run by the award-winning Jordanian-born businesswoman Rita Zawaideh.
Cox and Kings
t 1 800 999 1758, w coxandkingsusa.com. Long-established top-of-the-range tour operator, with several Jordan offerings.
Far Horizons
t 1 800 552 4575, w farhorizons.com. Expert-led archeological and historical tours of Jordan.
HLO Tours
t 1 800 736 4456, w hlotours.com. Specialists in tailor-made trips, with many years of experience in the Middle East.
t 1 800 223 7460, w isram.com. Long-established tour operator with a diverse selection of Middle Eastern offerings.
Maranatha Tours
t 1 800 545 5533, w maranathatours.com. Specialist in biblical pilgrimage tours.
On The Go Tours
US t 1 866 377 6147, Canada t 1 866 890 7038, w onthegotours.com. Leading worldwide operator to Jordan, with a variety of unique cultural and adventure itineraries.
Spiekermann Travel
t 1 800 645 3233, w mideasttrvl.com. Experts on Middle Eastern travel, with hosted tours around Jordan.
Travel in Style
t 415 440 1124, w travelinstyle.com. A good range of tours to Jordan alongside options to Egypt, Syria and Israel.
Wilderness Travel
t 1 800 368 2794, w wildernesstravel.com. Cultural exploration around Jordan and beyond.
Ya'lla Tours
t 1 800 644 1595, w yallatours.com. Middle East specialist, with a wide range of trips and packages covering Jordan.
Tour operators in Australia & NZ
Abercrombie & Kent
Australia t 1300 851 800, w abercrombiekent.com.au. Classy operator with a strong reputation – upmarket luxury tours.
Adventure World
Australia t 1300 295 049, w adventureworld.com.au; New Zealand t 0800 238 368, w adventureworld.co.nz. Agents for a wide array of international adventure companies – well worth a browse.
Kumuka Worldwide
Australia t 1300 667 277; New Zealand t 0800 440 499, w kumuka.com. Soft adventure trips and overland expeditions.
Martin Randall Travel
Australia t 1300 559 595, w martinrandall.com. British company running small-group cultural tours, led by expert lecturers.
On The Go Tours
Australia t 1300 855 684; New Zealand t 0800 447769, w onthegotours.com.au. Leading operator to Jordan, with unique cultural and adventure itineraries.
Passport Travel
Australia t 03 9500 0444, w travelcentre.com.au. Tour options on the Red Sea and around the Middle East.
Peregrine Adventures
Australia t 03 8601 4444, w peregrineadventures.com. Broad range of Jordan tours that reach some lesser-known highlights.
World Expeditions
Australia t 1300 720 000; New Zealand t 0800 350 354, w worldexpeditions.com.au. Australian-owned adventure company, with a broad programme of trekking and adventure expeditions, including Jordan and Syria.
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This article is part of Computerworld Australia's NBN 101 series, in which we take a look at the arguments surrounding the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, and dissect them one by one. The articles are meant to be an overview of the debates central to the National Broadband Network (NBN) and other broadband infrastructure projects to give you a grounding as more and more media outlets and commentators speak out on the project. We encourage people to take the discussion further in the comments section.
In our first article we took a look at how Australia's NBN plan compares to the rest of the world and the statistics and graphs from the OECD, and then we strapped in for a tour of speeds. We also had a look at wireless technologies versus fibre optic, then we delved into the economic argument for a high-speed national broadband network, and how applications and potential service packages may play a role in the NBN. Then more recently we discussed whether mobility is a friend of foe.
Now we turn out attention to our international links to the internet, as it is one of the topics that surprisingly popped up during the Federal Election.
Bedding down the submarine cable links
One of the conversations emanating out of the Federal Election campaign broadband discourse centred on our international links to the internet.
In short, the argument went that mass infrastructure investment in projects like the National Broadband Network (NBN), no matter how fast, would be ultimately bottlenecked by Australia's international links. Support for this argument has some convincing elements: 70 per cent of the content Australians access is based overseas and the submarine cable links connecting us to the rest of the digital world simply aren't abundant.
To build a network of the NBN's scale without factoring in additional international links would relegate Australians to a proverbial pipe dream (excuse the pun).
Throughout the election campaign several commentators used this reasoning to various ends. Pro-NBNers, on the other hand, conjectured with the notion that Australian internet access would become much more local, as increased bandwidth afforded greater benefits for internal communication and applications.
However, most really didn't look beyond a very shallow interpretation, and in many ways it is fundamentally erroneous.
So let's look a bit deeper.
Aside from the fact the US is a highly successful mass content producer and has for some time put in a lot of national effort into bolstering the IT industry, one of the reasons so much of the internet content Australians access is located offshore is the manner in which our networks are architected.
IDC analyst David Cannon explains that when websites were mainly static content, it didn't matter if updates to information took up to two or three days to complete. Basically, around the late 90s and even early this century, a lot of this content was cached domestically, predominantly with hosting company, Melbourne IT.
At the time, ISPs bought data from the big carriers – Telstra, Optus, AAPT, and WorldCom (now Verizon) – in two strands: Domestic and international.
"All of it travelled back and forth locally at a cheap price," Cannon said. "Then all of a sudden websites started to become more dynamic with multimedia capabilities. What was happening was the cached data wasn't keeping up with what the websites were trying to achieve. Simultaneously there was the Southern Cross pipes coming onboard, making data far more accessible and much cheaper.
"What they were hoping to do was sell clear channel pipes to the ISPs who could go to LA and peer with basically the internet and negotiate data rates themselves, and the telco would just sell them the pipe. That didn't work out because they were really asking an arm and a leg. I remember selling the first STM-1 Southern Cross pipe to connect.com, which was AAPT's ISP.
"I think it was something like $US12,000 a month or something like that just for a 2 megabit per second (Mbps) pipe. Back then that was good capacity, but of course now that is just ridiculous. Then if you wanted to move to STM-1 or anything like that you were talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars US per month. It was just out of reach."
To cut a long story short, things evolved - prices came down, broadband emerged and the dynamic content on websites meant it was better to go direct to the US for data instead of paying to cache it domestically. And we have lived with that architecture for the past 10 years.
So do we have a capacity bottleneck to access this data? Not even close.
As far back as early last year Robin Russell, CEO of the Australia-Japan Cable, wrote in an article that international networks are nowhere near being considered a capacity constraint.
"That proposition can be despatched immediately," he wrote. "Each of the four networks that will be providing the bulk of international connections for Australia is capable of carrying at least a terabit per second of data. The total international capacity in use for the Australian market in 2009 is estimated to be around 300 gigabits per second. Accordingly, total capacity usage could double, then double again, then double again, and then double yet again before the capabilities of those networks was exhausted. It would therefore be difficult to say that international networks are a capacity bottleneck in the Australian market."
The four cables he was referring to are:
- Southern Cross Cable Network
- Australia-Japan Cable
- Telstra's Endeavour
- Pipe Network's PPC-1
There are other submarine cables but these are the four major transit routes for most of our internet traffic.
(See the images at the top of this story for the cable routes and maps.)
Moreover, there are other cable projects in the works. In July, it was announced raw network bandwidth out of Australia is set to get a two-fold increase with a $US400 million undersea cable.
Data carriers Pacnet and Pacific Fibre are partnering to build the Pacific Fibre cable, a low-latency undersea fibre optic cable spanning Australia, New Zealand and the US.
The bandwidth of the new cable will be a minimum of two fibre pairs with 64 wavelengths per pair. Each wavelength has a throughput capacity of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) for a total of 5.21 terabits per second (Tbps) bandwidth.
The cable length is estimated to be 13,600 km long and will connect Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles, bypassing the likes of Guam and Hawaii for the time. The pipe can be upgraded to 12Tbps with 100G technology.
And in July, many analysts and observers backed the announced upgrade to the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) from 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to 40 Gbps.
So capacity is really not even close to being an issue at this stage. Will we need more in future? Most likely, yes, particularly if NBN Co makes good on promises to deliver peak speeds of 1Gbps. But the existing cables can be upgraded by swapping out the terminal equipment to increase the already abundant capacity.
Yet, although we don't have a bandwidth bottleneck by any stretch of the imagination, it doesn't mean you will get top speeds from content that is located offshore.
Layer 10's Dr Paul Brooks explains.
"Because of the round trip delay, you are not going to get 100Mbps of download from an international server regardless of how much capacity is sitting there unused," Brooks said. "If you have a server close by, yes you can get your average PC can get 20, 30 or 40MBps from that. But with exactly the same download even if you had infinite capacity would still give you only 6 to 10Mbps from the international server because of the round trip delay."
So even if we build the NBN we aren't going to get the speeds they promised anyway, so what's the point in spending the money?
Well, there are a number of reasons why this conclusion is acutely short-sighted – not least that we won't be using broadband infrastructure just to access internet content that comes from the US - and it shouldn't be used to preclude building top-class telecommunications infrastructure, even if it isn't the NBN as we know it under the Labor administration.
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Einstellung are Steve Hough (ex Godflesh/Cable Regime) bass, Simon Rider (ex Grover) drums, Andrew Parker (ex Katastrophy Wife/Sally) and Andy Smart on guitar.
Einstellung make incredible music that combines the motorik rhythms and sensibilities of Krautrock with the primal riffing more readily associated with their hometown of Birmingham through the likes of Sabbath.
So far Einstellung released :
The debut album: Wings of Desire on the Australian label Chatterbox in September 2006.
"grooving instrumental post-rock with epic flourish. Big, big guitars, with a complete disregard for trendiness or superfluous innovation."
"inspired combination of repetition and variation…the band work subtle changes (and sometimes not so subtle ones) into the music that keeps its natural velocity from turning into mere inertia." Drum Media – Sydney
The debut UK single: Sleep Easy Mr Parker has been issued through Bearos Records.
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The download single: Ich Auch (edit) on Shifty Disco Records Singles Club available form 25th May 2007. An edit of a track from Wings of Desire to accompany the previously released 'Konstant (edit)'.


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1. What sorts of things brought me life and happiness as a child?
2. Am I still making time to do those things today?
2. Am I still making time to do those things today?
These questions have been my motivation behind taking this week off from work. My only objective? To do the things I LOVE.
For as long as I can remember I've always loved going to flea markets and antique stores.
I inherited this passion mostly from my dad who has a love for restoring and repurposing old things. He's kind of like Bob Vila, Macgyver, and the guys from American Pickers all mashed into one.
Two points if you can you guess what ended up coming home with me in this photo? I just couldn't say no after I saw the entire booth was marked 50% off.
And if money / space weren't an option I would have brought home this old wooden parts bin for our coffee mugs.
Instead, these things maybe might have ended up in my Mountainsmith because they remind me of a special someone.
On the way home I got to drive around looking at restored bungalows. Restored bungalows / craftsman style homes make my heart happy.
Last night Husband and I ended the day by stuffing our bocas with tacos from Torchy's. Pretty sure he's HOTTER than their diablo sauce. NOT. GONNA. LIE.
Today = DAY 2 of OPERATION REJUVENATION. Be sure and check back this week for updates from Kansas City, as well as LETTERS FROM MR. LOERKE!
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Google in the Library With a Candlestick: Demand Media's Traffic-Murder Mystery (Except It Didn't Die)
Smart investors will decide whether or not they like online content maker Demand Media, which recently filed to go public.
Before Wall Street buys into the IPO, those investors will peruse the financial disclosures, assess the management and analyze the market for creating content that uses digital tools to gauge consumer demand and assign stories based on those results.
And they will also look closely at the Santa Monica, Calif., start-up's traffic, which has been growing steadily since its founding several years ago.
Except, insisted two bloggers in posts on the exact same day earlier this week, it looked like Demand's traffic dramatically fell off over the last month.
First, Dan Primack from peHUB, using data from Quantcast, noted a huge traffic drop-off, although he did add that other analytic groups were not showing such declines.
He then spun what he himself called "an alternate (and unsubstantiated) theory" that Google (GOOG) had somehow tweaked its search algorithm and kicked Demand's knees in some doing-some-evil plot to get into the content business itself.
If you are thinking it was grassy-knoll time, as I did, you are not far off.
But, by the end of the post, Primack wheeled back as fast as Demand's traffic had supposedly declined, noting that a Quantcast spokesperson attributed the Demand traffic plunge to a "measurement tag that had fallen off."
(Don't you hate when that happens? That's why we use digital superglue here at All Things Digital to keep those pesky measurement tags affixed firmly!)
But that seemingly bad data from Quantcast also popped up in a post by Slate's James Ledbetter, who also noted a precipitous decline for Demand in late July.
He tried to throw out a number of scenarios and theories to explain the possible plunge, none of which were supported by much proof, either. But it all sounded juicy and sneaky!
The post actually seemed more of a lark for Ledbetter than any real reported analysis.
And comScore Director of Industry Analysis Andrew Lipsman even stressed in the comments of the Ledbetter piece that "there is no such traffic drop-off at Demand and there may be other inorganic reasons behind the apparent decline you noted in your article."
Indeed, according to comScore (SCOR), which is sometimes considered an undercounter of Web traffic by publishers, Demand's traffic is actually up to 58.7 million unique monthly visitors in July, a rise of seven percent from the previous month.
That's actually the best Demand has done since last fall, as you can see here from comScore's numbers since last September, during which time its traffic rises and falls by small amounts:
Demand's U.S. Unique Visitors (000)
Sep-2009 52,495
Oct-2009 52,710
Nov-2009 49,278
Dec-2009 47,166
Jan-2010 51,327
Feb-2010 50,017
Mar-2010 55,481
Apr-2010 55,915
May-2010 56,261
Jun-2010 54,619
These numbers, as you will see, are not quite as gripping, showing a very slow march forward, as did Demand's financials.
As I wrote in a post earlier this week, titled "The Lesson of Demand Media: The Online Content Business Is a Looooong March to the Big Time":
The media business at Demand is still small, relatively speaking to other big content companies, with the content and media part of the revenue representing almost 60 percent of the business (a domain registrar business makes up for the rest).
And, most importantly, it is still unprofitable.
[Demand] said that, for the six months ended June 30, the company posted a loss of $22.3 million on revenue of $114 million. It was an improvement over a loss of $28.9 million on revenue of $91.3 million in the same period of 2009.
Using less strict accounting, on an operating basis, the picture is better, with the company's loss cut to $4.7 million from $12.3 million in the same six months.
And using even less stringent non-GAAP financial rules, called, "Adjusted OIBDA," Demand said in its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday that it made $25.6 million in profits.
Like I said, not so riveting, but also not so bad.
Which comes to BoomTown's own theory: If you want a good story, buy a good book.


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A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this
That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.
I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care 'debate' this summer.
The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama--making him into a vile object of disgust--into a crusade. It's a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.
But I've been thinking about Dallas in 1963 because I've been recalling the history and how that city stood as an outpost for the radical right, which never tried to hide its contempt for the New England Democrat.
Now, in this this month's Vanity Fair, Sam Kashner offers up in rich detail the hatred that ran wild in Dallas in 1963. To me, the similarity between Dallas in 1963 and today's unhinged Obama hate is downright chilling.
Kashner's fascinating cover story actually chronicles the professional struggles of writer William Manchester who was tapped by the Kennedy family, after the president's assassination, to write the definitive book about the shooting. The Vanity Fair articles details the power struggles, and epic lawsuits, that ensued prior to Manchester's publication.
But this unnerving passage from VF caught my eye. In it, Kashner retraces Manchester's step as he researched his book. It's unsettling because if you insert "Obama" for every "Kennedy" reference, it reads like 2009:
Manchester also discovered that Dallas "had become the Mecca for medicine-show evangelists … the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry Societies, and the headquarters of [ultra-conservative oil billionaire] H. L. Hunt and his activities."
"In that third year of the Kennedy presidency," Manchester wrote, "a kind of fever lay over Dallas country. Mad things happened. Huge billboards screamed, 'Impeach Earl Warren.' Jewish stores were smeared with crude swastikas.…Radical Right polemics were distributed in public schools; Kennedy's name was booed in classrooms; corporate junior executives were required to attend radical seminars."
A retired major general ran the American flag upside down, deriding it as "the Democrat flag." A wanted poster with J.F.K.'s face on it was circulated, announcing "this man is Wanted" for—among other things— "turning the sovereignty of the US over to the Communist controlled United Nations" and appointing "anti-Christians … aliens and known Communists" to federal offices.
And a full-page advertisement had appeared the day of the assassination in The Dallas Morning News accusing Kennedy of making a secret deal with the Communist Party; when it was shown to the president, he was appalled. He turned to Jacqueline, who was visibly upset, and said, "Oh, you know, we're heading into nut country today."
Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a fourth-grade class burst into applause.
Today, conservatives are expressing outrage that Rep. Nancy Pelosi had the nerve to raise concerns about the onrush of violent political rhetoric. The Noise Machine claims it has no idea what Pelosi's talking about. But the truth is, America's most famous bouts of political violence (i.e. JFK, Oklahoma City, etc.) have always been accompanied by waves of radical, right-wing rhetoric. Given that history, the GOP's insistence that the hate now filling the streets couldn't possibly inspire violence seems woefully naive.


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Video shows fight between Wisconsin bus driver and teen
Jessica Durando
Video surfaced recently of a fight between a teen and a Wisconsin bus driver, who was fired for the incident, CBS 58 reports.
The raw video shows the Kenosha high school student running to the front of the bus and attacking the bus driver first. Driver Scotty Wells fights back, getting out of the driver's seat and punching the teen repeatedly while the bus is still in motion.The bus crashes into three parked vehicles.
The fight happened on January 17 and Wells lost his job as a result of it. The union representing Wells is aiming to get him his job back, according to CBS 58. The teen meanwhile is facing two felony charges, CBS 58 reports.
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Custom made Designer Cakes Birthday Cakes, Wedding Cakes, Christening Cakes Sydney, Baby Shower Cakes, Cupcakes, Cake Pops, Kid's Parties Cake in Mascot Sydney Eastern Suburbs, South Sydney. Owner Chrissie Yee has been doing cakes for over 5 years. Started with Cupcakes and ventured out to Cakes and registered Business called Cakes By Jacob's Mum. Specializing in novelty cakes around Sydney, Cakes By Jacob's Mum also do Kid's Birthday Cakes Sydney, 1st Birthday Cakes, 21st Birthday Cakes, 30th ... Read more Birthday Cakes, 40th Birthday Cakes, Adult Birthday Cakes, Elegant Cakes, Engagement Cakes, Wedding Cakes, Christening Cakes, Corporate Cakes and Cupcakes servicing Sydney CBD, Eastern Suburbs, South Sydney, Inner Western Suburbs. Also have international clients and VIPS.
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Custom bakery in Hornsby offering custom made birthday cakes, celebration cakes, cake pops and cookies. Highly experienced in corporate events. We also host cake decorating classes, decorating open days and children's birthday parties
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Haudh in Gwanûr
|Haudh in Gwanûr
|Burial mound
|"Haudh in Gwanur" by Douglas Chaffee
|General Information
|On the banks of the Poros in Gondor
|Burial mound
|Images of Haudh in Gwanûr
Haudh in Gwanûr was the burial mound of Folcred and Fastred, erected at their death in T.A. 2885.[1]
[edit] History
Folcred and Fastred, the twin sons of King Folcwine of Rohan, had come South to answer the Oath of Eorl. They fought the Haradrim alongside the Gondorians, but were slain on the banks of the Poros.
They were laid to rest near the Crossings of Poros according to the tradition of the Rohirrim, and it is said that all enemies of Gondor were afraid to pass the tomb.[2]
[edit] Etymology
It has been suggested that Haudh in Gwanûr means "mound of the brothers" in Sindarin, consisting of haudh ("mound, grave, tomb") + in (pl. genitive article) + gwanûr.[3] In editions of The Lord of the Rings prior to the 2004 edition, the circumflex (^) was omitted.[4]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
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- Haudh-in-Gwanûr is a site in Harondor, where players face an attack by Undead.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion", "The Stewards"
- ↑ Compound Sindarin names at Tolkiendil.com (accessed 19 June 2011)
- ↑ Cf. Talk:Haudh in Gwanûr


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