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New York's blogs covering entertainment, fashion, food and politics produced 10.5 million unique users for September -- the highest number in the site’s 13-year history, reports David Kaplan. Editor Adam Moss says his staff posts new content every six minutes during working hours. “It starts at that speed at 8:30 in the morning, ending about 7.” The magazine’s print articles also helped drive last month's record traffic, including a Zooey Deschaneld profile, the 9/11 memorial issue, a feature on new parents who are over 50, and political stories from Frank Rich and John Heilemann. New York magazine digital czar Michael Silberman tells Kaplan:

As newsstand sales decline generally for magazines, the web becomes the de facto newsstand where readers come to browse and check out what’s being offered. As readers sample the site’s blogs, we have a chance to convert them to being a newsletter subscriber or an app downloader and in many cases, print subscribers.

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Frank Rich announced on March 1 that he was leaving the New York Times to become editor-at-large and columnist at New York magazine. Simon Dumenco last night spotted downtown Manhattan street posters trumpeting "FRANK RICH on the American Scene... DEBUT ISSUE ON SALE JULY 4" under New York magazine's logo. Having your own outdoor campaign is a pretty big deal, says Dumenco.

I spent years as an editor/writer at New York and nymag.com, somehow getting sufficiently sucked into circulation and editorial-promotion meetings that I ended up personally spec-ing and commissioning such "flypost" campaigns. So I can tell you something about them: They ain't cheap.

Several New York Times staffers objected to Executive Editor Bill Keller's recent controversial columns about the media, which he wrote knowing he would shortly step down from his leadership post, according to reports. Keller wrote a magazine column in March questioning the value and journalistic practices of The Huffington Post specifically and aggregation in general. He later started a firestorm on Twitter by suggesting Twitter makes you stupid and followed it with a like-minded column. "I think it’s fair to say that knowing that I was going to be announcing that I was moving on made me feel just a little bit liberated in what I said in the column," Keller told Forbes' Jeff Bercovici. Some Times' staffers, however, were not pleased. Media writers and social media staffers complained to him that because he was writing as the top editor of the Times, his rants were making their jobs more difficult, reports Gabriel Sherman for New York Magazine:

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"I almost suspect that he wanted to speak to me as a way of communicating to his family," Steve Fishman tells Melissa Block. "His remaining son is furious at him. His wife, Ruth, initially stood by him but now has decided that she can't talk to him." || Read Fishman's "The Madoff Tapes."