About 10 days ago I featured a post about how the New York Times homepage is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the age of social media and people reading content that’s shared with them or recommended to them. Poynter has followed this up with some additional graphs and insight, which adds additional interesting points. Continue reading
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The growing irrelevance of the news homepage
In the Internet’s early days, the homepage was king: Companies like Yahoo! fought to have the most relevant landing page for users. The hope was they’d make it their start page when opening their browser, and spend a long time on their sites, consuming content and features. Continue reading
New York Times dabbles successfully in the absurd
The New York Times has tried a bit of a bolder experiment as it expands its offerings online: Acted out re-enactments of actual transcriptions. The result is quite amusing, if not news, per se. Continue reading
Fighting subscription fatigue
It used to be, maybe 10-20 years ago, subscription fatigue was largely tied to magazine subscriptions. So many magazines, asking for just a small amount per year, constant deliveries of publications that many didn’t end up reading. It’s become much more insidious, however, as cort-cutting has led to a lot of “low cost” items that, in aggregate, can end up costing more than what it replaced. Continue reading
Why our fight with cancer may eventually fail
The New York Times brought Sunday a very well written piece by George Johnson on why cancer is probably the thing that will take the lives of many of us as our population ages. Having conquered so many different illnesses and diseases, we can’t fight nature, and cancer is for many caused by just that. Continue reading