Comments for Dispatches from Andyland http://sinix.org/blog "Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!" -- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:49:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Boston.com Haiku by Charlene Lane aka 'redtail' http://sinix.org/blog/?p=158&cpage=1#comment-49241 Charlene Lane aka 'redtail' Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:49:41 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=158#comment-49241 I was a huge fan, and obsessed participant in the Boston.com Haiku site. From time to time I Google around to see if anyone has put anything like this out there. It was brilliant!! Thanks for a couple of years of fun! Wish someone would put it out there again... :~( redtail I was a huge fan, and obsessed participant in the Boston.com Haiku site. From time to time I Google around to see if anyone has put anything like this out there.

It was brilliant!! Thanks for a couple of years of fun!

Wish someone would put it out there again… :~(

redtail

]]> Comment on The connection between an the artist and tools by Andrew http://sinix.org/blog/?p=199&cpage=1#comment-48535 Andrew Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:31:32 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=199#comment-48535 I think it was BOSTON.com/MARATHON I think it was BOSTON.com/MARATHON

]]> Comment on The connection between an the artist and tools by ky http://sinix.org/blog/?p=199&cpage=1#comment-48533 ky Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:37:04 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=199#comment-48533 boston.com/MARATHON? I, of course, agree completely. boston.com/MARATHON?

I, of course, agree completely.

]]> Comment on The inverted pyramid of news reporting by Chris Devers http://sinix.org/blog/?p=194&cpage=1#comment-48395 Chris Devers Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:31:53 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=194#comment-48395 Not to mention Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald (she of the Antarctic "treat self for breast cancer for a few months while waiting for an airlift" story), or any number of victims in Iran, Iraq, or Afghanistan, etc. Not to mention Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald (she of the Antarctic “treat self for breast cancer for a few months while waiting for an airlift” story), or any number of victims in Iran, Iraq, or Afghanistan, etc.

]]> Comment on A little shakey on the concept by Andrew http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176&cpage=1#comment-48006 Andrew Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:07:13 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176#comment-48006 Well asalsman, since you seem to be the only person at boston.com who knows Movable Type, can you make the blog <title> say something other than "2008 Presidential Campaign Blog"? Well asalsman, since you seem to be the only person at boston.com who knows Movable Type, can you make the blog <title> say something other than “2008 Presidential Campaign Blog”?

]]> Comment on A little shakey on the concept by asalsman http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176&cpage=1#comment-47986 asalsman Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:07:04 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176#comment-47986 But it's Twitter! And interwebs! Isn't that what everyone's supposed to do? Waste time on something that is, for some value of cool, cool? But it’s Twitter! And interwebs! Isn’t that what everyone’s supposed to do? Waste time on something that is, for some value of cool, cool?

]]> Comment on GlobeReader by andrew http://sinix.org/blog/?p=173&cpage=1#comment-47911 andrew Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:19:03 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=173#comment-47911 OK, thanks for another reminder that I need to get out more of the big mondo article in my head, some of your comments correspond to the larger piece I want to write. Shafer's article leads to some conclusions while leaving out some counterpoints I think are important, but he leaves off some of the more interesting questions. Yes, you read a newspaper differently from reading a news article on a web page. That might skew web traffic higher than justified (x million visitors a month vs. y thousands readers a week. It sounds higher, but does it really count if many of those visitors only read 1 article?) It also might be the flaw that keeps web sites ads from being as valuable as newspaper ads to advertisers. (if someone visits 5 web sites a session, advertise with the one charging the lowest CPM. If a newspaper has you as a reader, they have you.) On the other hand, I don't think they are thinking "how do we keep them from stealing..." The information is already gone on boston.com, that horse has left the barn. Its trivial to find <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22contact+the+boston+globe%22++%22the+boston+globe+store%22+-site%3Aboston.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">blatent copyright infringement of the Boston Globe</a> that they do nothing about. (and do nothing about even when I was an an employee and report it to management, which they told me reported it to in-house council) I'd bet they actually do get people asking for something like GlobeReader, newspaper readers or subscribers saying that they are afraid that the era of print is ending, but don't find boston.com and the web to be a good substitute. I'm not sure if there are many (it reminds me of the Scott Adams ISDN interoperability lab story. I can only find it on the web by reference <a href="http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/scott_adams_is_a_wally/" rel="nofollow">here</a> search for "analogy".) I had a similar problem with the Boston Sunday Globe's "bulldog edition" (the Sunday paper on Saturday) I bet when the asked people why the didn't buy/subscribe to the paper they said the didn't have time to read it. Adding an extra day still wouldn't help the non-readers become readers. But in the end, yes it is a product that solves the producers problem more than the consumers. OK, thanks for another reminder that I need to get out more of the big mondo article in my head, some of your comments correspond to the larger piece I want to write. Shafer’s article leads to some conclusions while leaving out some counterpoints I think are important, but he leaves off some of the more interesting questions.

Yes, you read a newspaper differently from reading a news article on a web page. That might skew web traffic higher than justified (x million visitors a month vs. y thousands readers a week. It sounds higher, but does it really count if many of those visitors only read 1 article?) It also might be the flaw that keeps web sites ads from being as valuable as newspaper ads to advertisers. (if someone visits 5 web sites a session, advertise with the one charging the lowest CPM. If a newspaper has you as a reader, they have you.)

On the other hand, I don’t think they are thinking “how do we keep them from stealing…” The information is already gone on boston.com, that horse has left the barn. Its trivial to find blatent copyright infringement of the Boston Globe that they do nothing about. (and do nothing about even when I was an an employee and report it to management, which they told me reported it to in-house council)

I’d bet they actually do get people asking for something like GlobeReader, newspaper readers or subscribers saying that they are afraid that the era of print is ending, but don’t find boston.com and the web to be a good substitute. I’m not sure if there are many (it reminds me of the Scott Adams ISDN interoperability lab story. I can only find it on the web by reference here search for “analogy”.) I had a similar problem with the Boston Sunday Globe’s “bulldog edition” (the Sunday paper on Saturday) I bet when the asked people why the didn’t buy/subscribe to the paper they said the didn’t have time to read it. Adding an extra day still wouldn’t help the non-readers become readers.

But in the end, yes it is a product that solves the producers problem more than the consumers.

]]> Comment on A little shakey on the concept by andrew http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176&cpage=1#comment-47909 andrew Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:39:44 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176#comment-47909 Oh yes, thats another good point. I'd think that the issue is that they are trying to promote that they are Internet Savvy and use things like Twitter. They aren't thinking of of their site design and how much easier it would be to just create a list of links. (which their CMS system does that pretty easily creates into a simple drag and drop widget.) Oh yes, thats another good point. I’d think that the issue is that they are trying to promote that they are Internet Savvy and use things like Twitter. They aren’t thinking of of their site design and how much easier it would be to just create a list of links. (which their CMS system does that pretty easily creates into a simple drag and drop widget.)

]]> Comment on A little shakey on the concept by adamg http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176&cpage=1#comment-47896 adamg Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:52 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=176#comment-47896 What's equally odd is how the Globe is promoting its Twitter feeds on boston.com by providing a list of headlines, only with Twitterized short URLs that take you to the stories on boston.com. Why waste the space like that instead of just listing which feeds are available - unless maybe somebody at the Globe likes looking at mirrors reflecting mirrors. What’s equally odd is how the Globe is promoting its Twitter feeds on boston.com by providing a list of headlines, only with Twitterized short URLs that take you to the stories on boston.com. Why waste the space like that instead of just listing which feeds are available – unless maybe somebody at the Globe likes looking at mirrors reflecting mirrors.

]]> Comment on GlobeReader by Chris Reuter http://sinix.org/blog/?p=173&cpage=1#comment-47827 Chris Reuter Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:50:35 +0000 http://sinix.org/blog/?p=173#comment-47827 Hmmm. Wordpress seems to have eaten the URL. It's: http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/01/06/how-newspapers-tried-invent-web?page=0,1 Hmmm. WordPress seems to have eaten the URL. It’s:

http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/01/06/how-newspapers-tried-invent-web?page=0,1

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