Wednesday, 1 February 2006

Dead tree media: some get it, some don't

There was a fascinating post over on the Normblog yesterday. Read the whole thing there. I was particularly interested in this from the editor of the Scotsman's web pages:
We receive a lot of traffic from blogs
Hopefully, I've done my little bit.

When I started blogging, I used to link to the Scotsman and its Glasgow rival in equal proportions. Now I don't because the Herald's links die after a day or so. It's so 2005. In fact, I hardly ever link to the Herald at all these days. I did mention this to a prominent Herald journalist recently and perhaps their new editor will get the message. I've had over 140,000 hits on this blog and I have little doubt that quite a few of my readers - especially the many from overseas - will now be regular readers of the Scotsman's web pages. Not so for the Herald.

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  1. David Farrer10:42 am, October 12, 2012

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    David Farrer
    lochaneilein: 
     
    It's OK if you like reading the paper version of the Scotsman, as I do. The fee for online access includes a voucher for the printed paper and the total cost is less than the daily cover price. This applies only for readers in Scotland I believe.

    6 February 2006, 11:14:43 GMT
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    David Farrer
    Sandy: I don't think so but there was a cartoon in the Scotsman a few days ago that would probably have upset quite a few. I can't find a link to it.

    6 February 2006, 11:10:46 GMT
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    lochaneilein
    The real problem with these papers is the content: the idea of paying for the online version is laughable! But let's face it, neither of them are exactly hospitable towards bloggers... too much of a threat.

    4 February 2006, 19:39:32 GMT
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    dave t
    And now you have to register every two minutes to read the Hootsmon!

    3 February 2006, 17:56:46 GMT
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    Sandy P
    OT: Has any Scotting papers published the Mohammed cartoons?

    1 February 2006, 18:31:08 GMT
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    Holyrood Watcher
    And why doesn't The Herald publish a web version on Saturdays? 
     
    And while in complaining mode, I rather doubt that the Scotsman's firewalls will encourage foreign readers...

    1 February 2006, 13:33:03 GMT
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    doctorvee
    Another terrible thing about The Herald's website is the way it tries to mimick newspaper-style columns. Because the internet was designed to look exactly like a horrible looking newspaper?

    1 February 2006, 12:30:55 GMT

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