Washington Post Reviews its 10 Years on the Web

anaesthetica writes "The Washington Post is featuring three stories today reviewing their experience in adapting the "old media" to the new environment of the web. The first article examines their revelation that 'The news, as "lecture," is giving way to the news as a "conversation".' The second looks at the 'Kaiser memo' which served as the germinating point for what would become WashingtonPost.com, phrased in language that today seems amusingly quaint. The final article looks at the death of traditional print newspapers as consumers flock to internet sources for their news."

Comments

Re:Only once?

[NanoGator]

"It's not 20 seconds, it's 2 minutes..."

I just timed myself doing it, took 25 seconds.

"...times however news sites you read..."

I think I've encountered like 4 of these in the last 2 years. (LaTimes, WashingtonPost, NYT, and... one Portland I cannot remember the name of.) How many are you hitting?

"across however many computers you read your news on"

Why would you read this story, then go hopping to all your machines and logging in there, too? The answer is, you wouldn't. Again, don't be dramatic.

"times however often your cookies get cleared"

That's on you. Although it wouldn't be super difficult to come up with a simple username password. You've done it with Slashdot already, obviously this isn't such a huge inconvenience. It might take 30 seconds instead of 25 for this to work.

"times the small loss in privacy"

You can have that one.

"times the number of spam-target email addresses it's necessary to create"

Great, I get to repeat myself. These sites don't validate email addresses. Type. In. Garbage. Derr.

"times however many broken registration screens there are"

Wow, can't say I've ever seen that. Bad way to run a business, heh.

"Website administrators who think mandatory registration is a good idea are likely to be the sort of people I want to avoid anyway."

Fine, no problemo. I just have two questions:

1.) Why bitch about it on Slashdot?

2.) Were you aware that even though this link says 'post' in the domain, the link doesn't require login? Heh.

In any event, I'm not thrilled with reg-req sites, either. Is it really necessary to blow things out of proportion with them? We're all saavy web users here, let's not get creative about how inconvenient they are. "But but but I hate filling things out and remembering passwords, even though I frequent several web-forums!"