Archive for February, 2008

Hating on the Newseum

Monday, February 11th, 2008
Avoid the gilded disaster that is the Newseum. Avoid paying the $20 they charge for admission. I want the Freedom Forum to sell off their monument valley installation and use the proceeds to actually support journalism. Like endowing a newspaper, for instance.

Nice. It’s built and opening soon, and you piss on their pantleg. Newseum has probably been in development for a decade, where were you then?

I’m fine with having a shiny building. Newspapers’ images are pretty tarnished.

Following your logic art museums would be in lofts, car museums in garages, natural history museums in caves, and science museums in labs.

Puh-leeze.

Orlando: Accept Our Spam - Or Give Up Your Access

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

This sucks. If I want to read an OrlandoSentinel.com story, I have to register. Once I register I have to agree to be spammed.

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Ottaway Newspapers Offer Up Two Day Website.

Friday, February 1st, 2008

For the “Big Game” Sunday, Ottaway Newspaper announces today that they have a great new website that has everything a fan will want.

Uh, why?

The site includes reporting from award-winning reporters from the Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA), the Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY), the Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, PA), the Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), and The Standard-Times (New Bedford, MA). With reporters in Arizona and throughout the country, newyorkversusnewengland.com provides the very best and most up-to- date news.
At newyorkversusnewengland.com visitors can read blogs from fans of both teams and offer their own thoughts at the Giants’ or Pats’ Boards.
Fans can weigh in on who is the better quarterback or which coach will put together the better game plan by voting in one of the sites many polls and see how they stand with other fans.

No longer will they have to wander the Internet.

Emphasis mine. Wander the internet. Hmmm, I can’t think of a single sports website/blog that might be covering this game from end to end. I can think of fifty!

I think they are after an award with this site. It sure can’t be traffic or revenue.

At least the site I own: SaleEndsSunday.com can be used 52 times every year.

Note to self: Change redirect. done.