Comments on: Newspaper Faces Tomorrow by Retreating http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/29/newspapers-faces-tomorrow/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anna Haynes http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/29/newspapers-faces-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Anna Haynes Mon, 01 May 2006 20:16:50 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/29/newspapers-to-fight-web-by-turning-back-clock/#comment-171 > "tries to make publications easier to read on a computer screen..." um, yeah. "In order to serve you better, ..." Funny how they never seem to base these decisions on the customers' expressed needs, but still employ customer-centric justifications after-the-fact. Like remodeling cubicles "in order to improve the workers' self esteem" in the wake of a massive layoff. A blog equivalent, that I've seen in newspapers, is "in order to make it easier to skip from post to post..." - to justify pruning the posts and comments so that if you want to read more than the first sentence or so, you have to click through to a separate page for each comment and for each post. some poor PR person has a job, and they're doing the best they can with what they have to work with. > “tries to make publications easier to read on a computer screen…”

um, yeah.
“In order to serve you better, …”

Funny how they never seem to base these decisions on the customers’ expressed needs, but still employ customer-centric justifications after-the-fact.

Like remodeling cubicles “in order to improve the workers’ self esteem” in the wake of a massive layoff.

A blog equivalent, that I’ve seen in newspapers, is “in order to make it easier to skip from post to post…” – to justify pruning the posts and comments so that if you want to read more than the first sentence or so, you have to click through to a separate page for each comment and for each post.

some poor PR person has a job, and they’re doing the best they can with what they have to work with.

]]> By: A http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/29/newspapers-faces-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-170 A Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:53:19 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/04/29/newspapers-to-fight-web-by-turning-back-clock/#comment-170 Good luck NY Times. With the advent of blogs, I only glance at your paper (or any other MSM site) when I find an interesting link from one of the many blogs I read on a daily basis, it seems I might be even less likely to visit now... Good luck NY Times. With the advent of blogs, I only glance at your paper (or any other MSM site) when I find an interesting link from one of the many blogs I read on a daily basis, it seems I might be even less likely to visit now…

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