Comments on: Why doesn’t Traditional Media incorporate Internet content properly?

By: Fintan

Fintan — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:33:34 +0000

I think all news websites should be forced to study the BBC.co.uk to see how it should be done.

Just a question to FMK, you say that Joe blogs could post the article in there blog, surely copyright would be an issue there?

By: Piaras

Piaras — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:35:00 +0000

Not all the content is though, there’s nothing worse then using the Irish Times website it’s like Russian Roulette - what’s free and what’s not. I have an account through work, but if I see breaking news I’ll go straight to RTE instead..

By: Cian Ginty

Cian Ginty — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:32:15 +0000

“The stupidest example of this is the Sunday Tribune’s”

A year or two back the Turbine decided to go down the road of only having only a ‘digital edition’ – ie the newspaper exactly as it appears in print. Doing this along side a good or excellent website like ThePost.ie or GuardianUnlimited.com is ok. What the Turbine did was just plain silly. But personally I don’t care ever since the paper has just about turned into the Sunday Indo 2.

As I’m posting in different places far too often - most of the Indo, and the It, are online (daily) on eircom.net for free, without any need to log in etc

By: fmk

fmk — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:34:56 +0000

i think the guardian does a pretty good job. they give urls to their own site and to external sites. they’ll often even do a tiny url on the external url.

i don’t think any of the irish media - and i’ll include the the times and rte in that - actually understand the web, or try to utilise it. as for the likes of the turbine and village magazine, who just go for brochureware sites - it’d make you want to cry.

joe bloggs could solve the problem by simply starting his own blog and posting the col there sometime after the paper has run it.