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The Mumbai Bounce

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This is what your Google Analytics graph looks like when your web site has been written about by the Chicago Tribune and United Press International, and your web address has been distributed as far as the Financial Times in Mumbai, India.
In all fairness, the graph below represents monthly visits to Marina City Online since mid-2007. Since then, MCO has been visited more than 47,000 times.
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The spike at left occurred on November 10, 2007, when the news aggregator fark.com snared the headline, “Chicago’s Marina City, tired of all the paparazzi, proposes photography ban, citing ‘common law copyright under current state and federal law.’”

Hear interview with MCO editor Steven Dahlman as he spoke with WGN Radio’s Andrea Darlas on February 8 about “all things Marina City.”

CFD practices rescue near Marina City
Photo by Mark Ulaszek
Temperatures hovered above freezing early Friday afternoon as the Chicago Fire Department practiced a water rescue in the Chicago River across from Marina City. Photo by Mark Ulaszek.

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