Sunday Links: The Palin Effect (On Web Traffic), No Financial Crisis for Hookers, and Much More

Fascinating piece today at The Washington Post on the explosion of Web traffic at newspaper sites, and online magazines like Slate, in September -- with their analysis showing that much of it can be attributed to Sarah Palin....Small paper, the Monterey Herald (Calif.) touts a big scoop on a fishy McCain-aided land sale....McClatchy analysis suggests a "decisive" Obama win....MIke Isikoff at Newsweek hints at more "land mines" ahead in the "Troopergate" case -- an Jake Tapper of ABC says she is way wrong in her claims that the report largely cleared her ....Philly site has a roundup of the booing of Palin in their fair city -- well beyond the hockey rink....NY Daily News scoop (see photo): Prostitutes in their fair city feeling no pinch (as it were) during the financial crisis, so far....Politico's Michael Calderone: Chris Matthews laying groundwork for his U.S. Senate race?.. The great actor Campbell Scott plays tabloid journo in new play in NYC The Atheist.