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May 26th, 2009 at 8:08 am
The recent tatic of delaying stories on the web is due to bloggers immediately destroying the validity of those stories. The Sun is infuriated at the Saturday Chat getting picked apart. The Sun is trying to hold onto the minds of print readeds as they have already lost those who read on the internet. It is a desperate attempt to stay relevent. They do not understand that in order to stay relevant they need to offer something of value to readers, give it away, and make their site the hub for everything local. Sites like LiL, lowell.com, richardhowe.com, and lowellshallot.com, would move to the fringe if they could accomplish this. Instead, the blogs are more important than the Sun itself. Reaction to the BS Sun story is the story. If you’re reading this Lowell Sun (and I know you are) that is your Internet 101 lession of the day. Next class in internet 202 is to hire the bloggers to produce content for your site. You couldn’t afford me anyway.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Mimi - you imply a deliberateness that may not exist.
I have a weekly newspaper column (consider that as casually said). I have to call the on-line editor 3 out of 5 weeks, to tell him that the column didn’t ‘automatically’ upload the way he thinks it should.
Check the website masthead, and find out who runs the web site, and complain EACH AND EVERY TIME the column doesn’t appear. 5 bucks says the problem will go away.
And take some of the work of the shoulders of the columnists, who ususally are the ones who have to complain! :~)
May 26th, 2009 at 8:52 am
I just received an e-mail telling me that if you search the words “The Column” you will find it. I guess it is there, just buried. Go figure!
May 26th, 2009 at 10:11 am
M- did you see the first of Shallot’s trading cards?
May 26th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Honestly, the Sun has the worst website ever. I don’t know how they remain in business.
May 28th, 2009 at 2:30 am
People that want to read it badly enough will pay for it, so why not wait a day or two so they have to pay for it? There’s a lot wrong with the Lowell Sun, but refusing to give away a particular product that people are eager to read, and still willing to pay to read, isn’t one of them. HOw does it sabotage the paper’s future when a) it probably sells a few more Sunday papers by holding the piece back; b) nobody is going to run away from its Web site because this column doesn’t appear promptly and c)there isn’t going to be any Web competition for this particular product.
That being said, the column is a load of crap, and is useful simply so we can get an idea of how the news will be slanted over the next week or so.