I find that I sometimes read a paper edition differently than an online edition. My aging eyes (I remember when there wasn't a 'Net) find it easier to scan online text, but to read something like an entire book on Java etc. in depth is only possible on paper.
I think that online journalism has a place to cover instant breaking news with hyperlinked drilldown depth.
I would like to see newspapers become more like news magazines and put the journal back in journalism. In depth coverage and context -- rather than who what where when why.
The 'Net is much more suited to what T.S. Elliot called the "visions and revisions that a minute will reverse."
I want to let everybody know that I received an explanation from Andover.Net.... And they are fixing the problem. Response: We did some checking and found that it was caused by a older remote server that was supposed to be offline. It was started and sent the only thing it had...ads. My apologies, but we did hear you and I appreciate the input. We will still be running ads (rotation is difficult as they are hand coded), but they should actually have headlines now.
Glory be! I've been spammed by Slashdot.... Here's an email exchange I had with your sales and marketing people. I thought I'd let the pointyhaired folks at SD/Andover at least take a stab at it before post this, but I have heard nothing:
Hi, Because I have little time to browse Slashdot, I was enjoying having the headlines emailed to me. I regret to say that I have unsubscribed from your service after getting five ads in a row emailed to me. All headlines were discontinued. I'm just letting you marketing folks know this as a courtesy, as I suspect nobody intended this. Who in their right mind would want to subscribe to ad spam? If you rotated the companies, it might even be interesting, if you really liked reading ads. But the same company over and over again? Very sincerely [me]
previously... Hi {friendly chatty first name address to marketing minion of feminine gender suppressed to protect the guilty}, I have been subscribing to Slashdot Headlines and have been getting real articles. Now all I get is the same crap from MacMillan, day after day. Is this the new policy now that Andover.Net bought you? I think not. No articles-- just the same advertisement every day! I am giving you folks one chance to fix the problem, or I will unsubscribe. Please look into this. Thank you.
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I think that online journalism has a place to cover instant breaking news with hyperlinked drilldown depth.
I would like to see newspapers become more like news magazines and put the journal back in journalism. In depth coverage and context -- rather than who what where when why.
The 'Net is much more suited to what T.S. Elliot called the "visions and revisions that a minute will reverse."
Hmmmm. As computer literate as a houseplant... Well, I wish you and your fiancee' a lot of luck, and I hope she has a sense of humor......
How about the Necropolis, or the Land of the Dead. i.e. this one These are ghost sites, floating in cyberspace, not maintained by anybody... ...
I want to let everybody know that I received an explanation from Andover.Net.... And they are fixing the problem.
Response:
We did some checking and found that it was caused by a older remote server that was supposed to be offline. It was started and sent the only thing it had...ads. My apologies, but we did hear you and I appreciate the input. We will still be running ads (rotation is difficult as they are hand coded), but they should actually have headlines now.
Glory be! I've been spammed by Slashdot....
Here's an email exchange I had with your sales and marketing people. I thought I'd let the pointyhaired folks at SD/Andover at least take a stab at it before post this, but I have heard nothing:
Hi,
Because I have little time to browse Slashdot, I was enjoying having the headlines emailed to me. I regret to say that I have unsubscribed from your service after getting five ads in a row emailed to me. All headlines were discontinued. I'm just letting you marketing folks know this as a courtesy, as I suspect nobody intended this. Who in their right mind would want to subscribe to ad spam? If you rotated the companies, it might even be interesting, if you really liked reading ads. But the same company over and over again?
Very sincerely
[me]
previously...
Hi {friendly chatty first name address to marketing minion of feminine gender suppressed to protect the guilty}, I have been subscribing to Slashdot Headlines and have been getting real articles. Now all I get is the same crap from MacMillan, day after day. Is this the new policy now that Andover.Net bought you? I think not. No articles-- just the same advertisement every day! I am giving you folks one chance to fix the problem, or I will unsubscribe.
Please look into this.
Thank you.