Search bursts and news websites

Yahoo is studying patterns of search bursts. Search bursts are clusters of searches that originate from one geographical area. At Wired's Next Fest, Ben Clemens, Director, Yahoo Design Innovations, and Online Journalism Review's Noah Barron discuss how this could be used news websites.



Ben Clemens, Director, Yahoo Design Innovations at Next Fest
YouTube - Ben Clemens at Next Fest

The original ORJ article: Not all that Wired about it: Communication technology gets the short end at NextFest

Wired.com pre-time stamping stories?

Okay, I just discovered an article on Wired.com's website, that is time stamped for 2 a.m. tomorrow morning. I found the pre-time stamped article at about 11:10 p.m. today.

Link to the article.
Here is a screenshot...


Is this something that is happening at other places? Hit me up, if you know of any other occasions that this has happened.
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This part was added at 11:41 p.m.....

I went back to Wired.com and found out that it is a Wired.com practice. It has been done on more than one article. I wonder if this is a general practice for Conde Nast Publishing or if this is just a Wired.com practice.

Another photo of pre-time stamping proof: