Comments on: Conventional wisdom is crap http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/29/newspaper-website-conventional-wisdom/ Can you think of a better name? Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dahlia http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/29/newspaper-website-conventional-wisdom/#comment-22143 Dahlia Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:22:19 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/29/newspaper-website-conventional-wisdom/#comment-22143 I totally agree with this. I hate reading The Gazette online, but I read it anyway because I don't buy the paper. Ok so I'm not a loyal newspaper reader but we're in 2008, even The New York Times does a better job online. The Gazette's images are so small it's like they don't even matter in the articles. Interviews are skewered that I don't even know who is asking what, and sometimes I see a lot of headlines with no content. I can also tell some of those blogs are just fluff, there's no heart in those posts. Canoe.ca fares only slightly better, but nobody can read fonts that small, and the screen resolution needs to be bumped to at least 1024x768. There needs to be some serious improvement for local online news sources. I totally agree with this. I hate reading The Gazette online, but I read it anyway because I don’t buy the paper. Ok so I’m not a loyal newspaper reader but we’re in 2008, even The New York Times does a better job online. The Gazette’s images are so small it’s like they don’t even matter in the articles. Interviews are skewered that I don’t even know who is asking what, and sometimes I see a lot of headlines with no content. I can also tell some of those blogs are just fluff, there’s no heart in those posts.

Canoe.ca fares only slightly better, but nobody can read fonts that small, and the screen resolution needs to be bumped to at least 1024×768.

There needs to be some serious improvement for local online news sources.

]]> By: princess iveylocks http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/29/newspaper-website-conventional-wisdom/#comment-22142 princess iveylocks Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:54:57 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/02/29/newspaper-website-conventional-wisdom/#comment-22142 “So I want to advertise on the website of my local paper. How about those 2.2 million P-I readers? I go to the website. Look for how to do it. Not easy. I have to call someone, negotiate a deal.” (Small, niche advertisers should be able to buy online ads in minutes with a credit card, and without having to call anyone.)" But then how would price negotiation, size/design issues, editorial copy placement, and so on, be worked out? I don't see that as a better model, I have to say. Minimal communication, all too often = miscommunication. Adults (especially media workers) everywhere: stop whining and pick up the phone! “So I want to advertise on the website of my local paper. How about those 2.2 million P-I readers? I go to the website. Look for how to do it. Not easy. I have to call someone, negotiate a deal.” (Small, niche advertisers should be able to buy online ads in minutes with a credit card, and without having to call anyone.)”

But then how would price negotiation, size/design issues, editorial copy placement, and so on, be worked out?

I don’t see that as a better model, I have to say. Minimal communication, all too often = miscommunication.

Adults (especially media workers) everywhere: stop whining and pick up the phone!

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