tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post2071456321418984529..comments2023-09-22T09:03:09.417-04:00Comments on Townie Bastard: Harder than it lookstowniebastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03129158923604362272noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-14796723435423181302010-08-10T10:09:53.911-04:002010-08-10T10:09:53.911-04:00Given that the new format was rolled out across Tr...Given that the new format was rolled out across Transcontinental, if anyone was fired over the fiasco, I hope it was someone higher up in the company than the Telegram itself.<br /><br />The weekly papers had this inflicted on several weeks earlier.WJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08070910923518931583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-89242636164217692272010-08-10T07:19:02.735-04:002010-08-10T07:19:02.735-04:00It is hard to be surprised that the site sucks; th...It is hard to be surprised that the site sucks; the Telegram is behind the 8-ball on many things.<br /><br />You can also see how they got there; the reality is that few newspaper web-sites make a cent. Worse all they do is drag readers away from the print edition.<br /><br />You can see a bunch of 50-plus guys in a board room, who already struggle with email, wondering why they are spending a fortune on a web version of their paper that makes nothing. Why throw money at it? Get the in-house kid to do it...with predictably disasterous results.<br /><br />Someone in that shop is no doubt arguing that if the web-site actually was good enough, then it would could maybe be the gateway for all news about Newfoundland, or could capture some of that youth market, or re-capture the classifieds they have lost to Kijiji and eBay and so on. Maybe then it would make some money!<br /><br />Instead, they half-ass it, and just succeed in pissing off the readers they already had.Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-50226525874202843612010-08-09T23:48:41.265-04:002010-08-09T23:48:41.265-04:00Ah, so THIS is why Geoff's RSS feed hasn't...Ah, so THIS is why Geoff's RSS feed hasn't been working.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17013847036123410760noreply@blogger.com