Comments for The Digital U-B

Comment on The web as a personal publishing platform by History of Blogs

History of Blogs — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:27:52 +0000

[...] nothing has the potential reach of the blog, and one wonders how the future of personal and immediate publishing will develop. Twitters and tweets. What’s [...]

Comment on World war blog by Peggy

Peggy — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:45:42 +0000

Some perverse and intangible satisfaction? (And a new claim to fame!)

Comment on World war blog by 007

007 — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:21:58 +0000

You will only get your butt kicked Carlos.

Start posting the results!!

Comment on World war blog by admin

admin — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:56:05 +0000

Good point Peggy. Hmm, what will I get if I kick butt?

Comment on World war blog by Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:35:12 +0000

It really would be interesting to see how Carlos’ traffic compares–wouldn’t it be something if you beat out both of the heavyweight contenders?!?

Comment on More talk about NewsInnovation in Portland by Matt Neznanski

Matt Neznanski — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:58:06 +0000

Great to meet you in Portland on Saturday! Thanks for livestreaming and for all of your input. Next time we’ll nail the wi-fi first. Oh, there’ll be a next time.

Comment on Talking about NewsInnovation in Portland by 007

007 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:29:33 +0000

thought you would like thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/twitter.surgery/index.html

Comment on More on upcoming Union-Bulletin.com redesign by 007

007 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:06:08 +0000

The UB would have to generate a lot more content unavailable elseware to have registration viable. Unfortunately this would require adding to the news room and that wont happen. Second, who would want to advertise in such a smaller market?
Newspapers are failing because they are trying to make the internet fit them.

The internet thrives on freedom and advertising.

Comment on More on upcoming Union-Bulletin.com redesign by Scott

Scott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:24:24 +0000

Oh, and another thing (haven’t looked to see if this is already feasible): email news alerts based on keywords and phrases (and maybe category) would be nice. Example: I want to immediately know whether [keyphrase "Blue Mountain Plaza LLC"] got the financing required to continue mall construction before the deadline, which, by the time anyone reads this, is today. You know… since UB hasn’t reported on that yet… (ahem)…

Oh, and yet another thing: can you add those handy thumbs-up/thumbs-down ratings for articles to help guide UB on what (at least the online readers) like or dislike about what UB reports? Live online polls are fairly useless, but I feel better when I can say WooHoo or meh… UB, on the other hand, could occasionally get some useful reader preference data.

Finally, another thing: Please include a category that excludes national and world news. The rest of the Internet already have that pretty well covered.

btw, thanks for asking; I’ll shut up now:)

Comment on More on upcoming Union-Bulletin.com redesign by Scott

Scott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:09:57 +0000

GregH: Dude, they already offer the entire newspaper online; you can subscribe to the E-edition for a huge discount of 75 cents a month compared to having it delivered;) Or you can get both. Or various options… And you have to register an account and login to read it. The reader is simple and does not require downloaded software. Pretty cool.

So what I’d like to see is a deeper discount for the online subscription, since it doesn’t require the delivery overhead. I don’t pay for the paper version, but I would pay a reasonable rate for the online version! 50% seems reasonable…