IHT DAILY ARTICLE INDEX TODAY
It's this sort of thing that is bugging the crap out of me. Indexed twice, two headlines, same story.
Thomson Reuters "challenged" but reaffirms outlook
Thomson Reuters reaffirms outlook despite crisis
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Showing posts with label Internet reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet reading. Show all posts
Friday, 3 October 2008
The IHT's online version is slower than its print edition in bringing news to my attention: surely not?
Surely, in frequent cases, yes.
Sorry to bang on about this, but I look at iht.com first thing every morning. I did not see this yesterday morning.
Life in Zimbabwe: Wait for useless money
By Celia W. Dugger
Published: October 2, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/02/africa/02zimbabwe.php
However, I saw it in my print version yesterday when it arrived in the post at 13.00hrs.
I did see it in the daily article index for today (Friday) but did not yesterday.
Nor do I see it in the daily article index for yesterday, today
http://www.iht.com/indexes/articleindexes/thursday.php
In other words, if I relied on iht.com exclusively, I would 24 hours minimum behind seeing information that the IHT has already published in print!! Is that the point of online newspapers?
If the IHT can't be timely with its own information online then its hard to believe in their capacities to be timely with other people's (like the wires).
A small but important irritation; a reflection of bigger problems?
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Sorry to bang on about this, but I look at iht.com first thing every morning. I did not see this yesterday morning.
Life in Zimbabwe: Wait for useless money
By Celia W. Dugger
Published: October 2, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/02/africa/02zimbabwe.php
However, I saw it in my print version yesterday when it arrived in the post at 13.00hrs.
I did see it in the daily article index for today (Friday) but did not yesterday.
Nor do I see it in the daily article index for yesterday, today
http://www.iht.com/indexes/articleindexes/thursday.php
In other words, if I relied on iht.com exclusively, I would 24 hours minimum behind seeing information that the IHT has already published in print!! Is that the point of online newspapers?
If the IHT can't be timely with its own information online then its hard to believe in their capacities to be timely with other people's (like the wires).
A small but important irritation; a reflection of bigger problems?
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If only someone could make some money from the Internet?
It has become conventional group-think to believe that no one can make money from the incredible number of eyeballs going to the Internet, and that CPMS on Internet advertising will never catch up with newsprint CPMS, hence the general newspaper company malaise. (You know that group think thing? Like credit derivatives is a sure fire way to make money?)
I agree with the latter part of that Internet belief, but not the first. It's just that no one has figured out how to make money from the FUCKING INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF READERSHIP, something never seen in the history of mankind.
Or maybe they have, and we just don't know about it yet.
All these media gurus and commentators like Fishbowl are going to look pretty dumb when someone with smarts cracks it and makes quite incredible sums of money.
Here's some classic group think.
It's not surprising that traffic to newspaper Web sites keeps rising. Frankly, if it doesn't, the industry is in even more trouble than previously thought. Revenue from Web ads will never make up for the money that's no longer going towards the print versions, but as long as traffic keeps growing, the model isn't completely broken.
So the news from Andy Plesser at Beet.Tv stating that the Washington Post's online arm, WashingtonPost.com, has seen record growth in video streams and page views is a good sign.
The site had 1.3 million video streams in September, 162 percent over last year, and it delivered 323 million page views over the same time period, an increase of 42 percent. Now if only someone could make some money.
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Was Tuesday 16h September the Biggest Traffic Day in Internet News Media History?
The text below comes from Fishbowl, the thinking comes from Beet.tv
Thursday, Sep 18
The financial crisis earlier this week had at least one positive outcome: It was incredible for Web traffic to news sites. In fact, it's reasonable to assume that it was the biggest day in the history of current events-focused Internet destinations.
As Andy Plesser at Beet.TV points out (on video!), both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal had their biggest traffic days ever.
As the most visible papers in the city where the financial crisis was occurring, NYT and WSJ were perfectly positioned to see huge pageview numbers, but given that Web traffic to current events sites is continually growing, it stands to reason that Tuesday marked record highs for most news sites across the board.
Among the top 10 most trafficked pages — MSNBC Digital Network, Yahoo! News, CNN Digital Network, AOL News, NYTimes.com, Tribune Newspapers, Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division, Fox News Digital Network, ABCNEWS Digital Network, Google News — you could make an argument that MSNBC had higher traffic during the Olympics. There's no reason, however, to think that the other nine didn't set records on Tuesday.
(One can safely assume that Slate business spin-off The Big Money had its best day ever, but seeing as it just launched that's not really saying much.)
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Thursday, Sep 18
The financial crisis earlier this week had at least one positive outcome: It was incredible for Web traffic to news sites. In fact, it's reasonable to assume that it was the biggest day in the history of current events-focused Internet destinations.
As Andy Plesser at Beet.TV points out (on video!), both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal had their biggest traffic days ever.
As the most visible papers in the city where the financial crisis was occurring, NYT and WSJ were perfectly positioned to see huge pageview numbers, but given that Web traffic to current events sites is continually growing, it stands to reason that Tuesday marked record highs for most news sites across the board.
Among the top 10 most trafficked pages — MSNBC Digital Network, Yahoo! News, CNN Digital Network, AOL News, NYTimes.com, Tribune Newspapers, Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division, Fox News Digital Network, ABCNEWS Digital Network, Google News — you could make an argument that MSNBC had higher traffic during the Olympics. There's no reason, however, to think that the other nine didn't set records on Tuesday.
(One can safely assume that Slate business spin-off The Big Money had its best day ever, but seeing as it just launched that's not really saying much.)
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Thursday, 18 September 2008
"When the news you need is not always the news you want." (An IHT Reader)
I often blog about the International Herald Tribune without putting much of a face to IHT readers, because I feel I know them so well myself. Evidently we're all ahead of the curve, smart, engaged, charming, good looking, well-travelled cosmopolitan people (WHO LOVE FASHION AND LUXURY GOODS)!
However, I'd like to pick out one IHT reader who I think is representative of a large number of readers, but who, unfortunately for the IHT advertising department (except those selling the value of IHT readers as opinion formers) isn't worth much to them (because he isn't a senior exec. in a large European or Asian business, with corporate purchasing decision making power).
(How the IHT needs to get out of that trap laid so well by the FT and also used by the WSJ, is a discussion for another day.)
So let's meet our reader, and find out why he reads the IHT.
His views are especially interesting because he works on the Internet edge of media, and is extremely wired in the supposedly post-print age.
Graham Holliday works for www.fromthefrontline.co.uk in London.
Graham lived abroad for almost 15 years. He used to subscribe to the Guardian Weekly when he lived in Korea and later in Vietnam. Then Vietnam got the Internet and he didn't seem to need the paper.
However, to quote him, "I've been working heavily in journalism/blogs/social media for 7 years or more now and I realised the Internet was making me stupid as the way I use it to find out information is very niche. I miss too much. So, I decided to re-subscribe to a daily paper [the IHT]. First time I've had a daily since 1987 and it's great."
Graham outlined his reasons at his site Noodlepie, which I'm going to quote from (NB date - June 2008!)
However, I'd like to pick out one IHT reader who I think is representative of a large number of readers, but who, unfortunately for the IHT advertising department (except those selling the value of IHT readers as opinion formers) isn't worth much to them (because he isn't a senior exec. in a large European or Asian business, with corporate purchasing decision making power).
(How the IHT needs to get out of that trap laid so well by the FT and also used by the WSJ, is a discussion for another day.)
So let's meet our reader, and find out why he reads the IHT.
His views are especially interesting because he works on the Internet edge of media, and is extremely wired in the supposedly post-print age.
Graham Holliday works for www.fromthefrontline.co.uk in London.
Graham lived abroad for almost 15 years. He used to subscribe to the Guardian Weekly when he lived in Korea and later in Vietnam. Then Vietnam got the Internet and he didn't seem to need the paper.
However, to quote him, "I've been working heavily in journalism/blogs/social media for 7 years or more now and I realised the Internet was making me stupid as the way I use it to find out information is very niche. I miss too much. So, I decided to re-subscribe to a daily paper [the IHT]. First time I've had a daily since 1987 and it's great."
Graham outlined his reasons at his site Noodlepie, which I'm going to quote from (NB date - June 2008!)
Yes, I know I'm going against at least 250 grains, the general drift and the zeitgeist, but I've gone back to the future. For the first time in my life since 1987 I have subscribed to the print edition of a daily newspaper. The International Herald Tribune to be precise. Over the last five years I have increasingly hit my very tight, very niche RSS feeds for news before I ever glance at the BBC, NYTimes or Guardian front pages. As a result, I'm less informed. The Twitter feeds from NYTimes World and IHT are very useful - they don't overwhelm like some other newspapers - and I regularly click through to read more on a story I first see there, but... over time I have come to realise the way I have configured the internet to deliver me my news has made me an expert in some areas, but ignorant in far too many more.
I got into the habit of picking up the IHT whenever I passed the local newsagent. A newspaper the size of the IHT is manageable, it's readable, doesn't break the delivery boy's back, doesn't beg you to bin sections, advertising supplements and the countless other bits of throwaway claptrap that stuff newspapers with non-news stuff. The IHT is news on paper. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. When I go to a newspaper website there are umpteen beginnings, a gazzillion middles, shedloads of ends and more than a few deadends. I don't read the news online, I reject what I don't want to read and read what I think I want/need to read. I simply miss too much, too often and don't get enough depth in a logical manner from the internet. RSS feeds are invaluable for my work and interests, podcasts are great for niche news interests, I don't really watch TV and so, I've come to the conclusion that until news on the internet is as readable/logical/intuitive as the print item I'll stick with the deadwood edition while it's still around.
Two months later, Graham made another comment on Noodlepie, his 10 reasons for subscribing to a good print newspaper.
I'll just quote his summary:
"The crux of it is; print can steer you towards stuff you wouldn't otherwise encounter, whereas the online experience is designed to help you avoid stuff. This has only gotten worse in recent times with every other online newspaper giving you the opportunity to make your very own "My News page". Yes, yes, I know, you get to the news you want quicker, but I can't help thinking this drive towards speed, efficiency and personalisation is sometimes over emphasized especially when the news you need is not always the news you want."
Two things stand out for me, and it goes back to an earlier post I made today about Bob G. Jr and content for regularly, engaged people, who advertisers KNOW will be there.
The Internet was making Graham an expert in some areas and IGNORANT (my emphasis) in others.
The other (and IHT reader surveys show this), is that we watch very little TV.
What good print does, as you scan the page or turn the page to go to the areas you want to be an expert in or are interested in, is draw your eye to things you're not an expert in or did not know about but do not want to be ignorant of: something I once coined as the Broader Business Perspective, but lets just call it for now, the big picture.
The Internet has not yet found a way to deliver that.
So that's the good news for print, from where Graham is standing as an Internet media expert.
The bad news is that he's not so sure newspapers will be around for much more than a decade, not because of its inherent faults, but because, and I quote him: "There's no money in news."
However he adds one VERY important caveat to that: "Not the way things are currently modelled anyhow."
When we hear talk of dinosaurs and me banging on about Newspaper 2.0, it is exactly this that I am talking about.
Newspapers are stuck at Newspaper 1.0, with onerous legacy costs of failed imagination when it comes to what type of content they offer, how and when.
Newspaper 2.0 can overcome that.
I hope it's going to be the NYT/IHT who gets it first.
If not, and they hang on to Newspaper 1.0 because it still brings in juicy revenues and they haven't ever done anything different, they will go under, sooner or later. Just like Lehman Brothers, Merrill and all the rest who didn't realise the game had changed.
And someone else will develop Newspaper 2.0 and it's going to be very much a question of (committed and aggressive) first-mover advantage.
P.S Thanks to Graham for his fond IHT Flickr group and for taking the time to write to me.
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Monday, 28 July 2008
Experts on reading wonder: Is the Internet friend or foe?
The previous post was about whether young people will pay for certain types of information.
This one is about how they read.
Experts on reading wonder: Is the Internet friend or foe?
BEREA, Ohio: Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows interest.Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.Nadia checks her e-mail and peruses myyearbook.com, a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs onto Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities as cutesy cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on quizilla.com or fanfiction.net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies.Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia, who gets A's and B's at school, read books for a change. But at this point, Konyk said, "I'm just pleased that she reads something anymore."Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among education policymakers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
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This one is about how they read.
Experts on reading wonder: Is the Internet friend or foe?
BEREA, Ohio: Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows interest.Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.Nadia checks her e-mail and peruses myyearbook.com, a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs onto Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities as cutesy cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on quizilla.com or fanfiction.net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies.Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia, who gets A's and B's at school, read books for a change. But at this point, Konyk said, "I'm just pleased that she reads something anymore."Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among education policymakers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
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