I think it's a bit premature to perform a critique on the digital P-I Online, but that hasn't stopped numerous newspaper and media industry veterans from bashing the newborn. Michael Wolff, for example, did a real hatchet job before the new site has even gotten rolling. Others are disappointed. And the High Priests are busy pontificating.
What we currently know is that what got dropped into the crew's lap to begin with was the carcass of the old P-I. But we also know that Hearst hired the Yahoo News Guy. From this we can reasonably extrapolate that the new P-I Online is going to get reworked.
I'm getting a sense that it will be somewhat of a hub mixed with some version of The Chicago Tribune's RedEye.
The point that I want to emphasize here is that this is not a "zero-sum game." I doubt that they are going to take readers away from other publications which already exist or even compete directly against them.
What is probably going to happen, if all goes well, is that Hearst is going to capture a new readership of youngsters who have not been reading news publications so far.
The Chicago RedEye has been performing very successfully in this regard, as far as The Trib is concerned. And I see no reason why the Seattle P-I cannot.
Hearst has a very literate and wired population of youngsters out there. They may not have the same "vibe" or sensibility as the youngsters in Chicago. Hearst may have to tinker the mix around a bit to find out what appeals to the crowd in the Northwest.
The result may not be my taste or yours,
but it could find or create new fans and readers.
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Friday, March 20
SOME NOTABLE CLUSTERS (3) -
We live in a Media or Media-rich Environment. In the New Media it is now called a Media Ecosystem. But what is it composed of? Sometimes that merits a closer examination . . .
# Sarah Palin linked to
Thetan cult by John Cook at Gawker.
# JournoList:
Inside the echo chamber
by Michael Calderone at Politico.
# And earlier this week, Skippy Bin Laden - or a cyber avatar facsimile - issued another one of his manifestos via his PR firm, As-Sahab. [reut]
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# Sarah Palin linked to
Thetan cult by John Cook at Gawker.
# JournoList:
Inside the echo chamber
by Michael Calderone at Politico.
# And earlier this week, Skippy Bin Laden - or a cyber avatar facsimile - issued another one of his manifestos via his PR firm, As-Sahab. [reut]
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Thursday, March 19
Khyber: MAKING WAVES -
Broadcasting from the town of Jamrud in FATA, a stronghold of the belligerent Radio Mullahs, Radio Khyber provides an alternate mix of local news, talk shows, lifestyle features, and music.
"Radio Khyber's local programming is helping to fill an information vacuum, says Mr. Khan, of Internews Pakistan."
Good article - recommended!
:: By Huma Yusuf :: CSMonitor ::
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"Radio Khyber's local programming is helping to fill an information vacuum, says Mr. Khan, of Internews Pakistan."
Good article - recommended!
:: By Huma Yusuf :: CSMonitor ::
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Mez: SLOWLY I TURNED (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder -
Catching up with the case,
I expect the proceedings to resume tomorrow . . .
# Since at least noon today when I checked, the Italian press has been reporting a second possible intrusion into the cottage on Pergola St. I've been waiting for some reports to be translated into English. This is the first I've seen.
# Curt Knox gave an interview to a local Seattle TV station upon his return to the U.S. from Italy. "He says he believes prosecutors are focusing on Amanda's behavior because the physical evidence against her is weak."
# The Blogger Miss Represented has been posting a series of entries which explore possible motives for this homicide. Something in the latest entry caught my eye: displacement.
In the course of trying to reconstruct a crime scenario, we have observed indications of intense rage, but no apparent link which would cement it to the victim. It has seemed incomprehensible that Meredith could have said or done anything to provoke such intense rage.
If we discard the notion of provocation and replace it with displacement, this could be a crucial missing factor. Read more.
Niagara Falls . . . did you say Niagara Falls?
Slowly I turned, step by step I crept up on him . . .
-- From a classic vaudeville routine.
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Catching up with the case,
I expect the proceedings to resume tomorrow . . .
# Since at least noon today when I checked, the Italian press has been reporting a second possible intrusion into the cottage on Pergola St. I've been waiting for some reports to be translated into English. This is the first I've seen.
# Curt Knox gave an interview to a local Seattle TV station upon his return to the U.S. from Italy. "He says he believes prosecutors are focusing on Amanda's behavior because the physical evidence against her is weak."
# The Blogger Miss Represented has been posting a series of entries which explore possible motives for this homicide. Something in the latest entry caught my eye: displacement.
In the course of trying to reconstruct a crime scenario, we have observed indications of intense rage, but no apparent link which would cement it to the victim. It has seemed incomprehensible that Meredith could have said or done anything to provoke such intense rage.
If we discard the notion of provocation and replace it with displacement, this could be a crucial missing factor. Read more.
Niagara Falls . . . did you say Niagara Falls?
Slowly I turned, step by step I crept up on him . . .
-- From a classic vaudeville routine.
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SoFlo: EXPLOSIVES STOLEN -
Dangerous Cargo Alert . . .
A dozen 50-pound bags of ammonium nitrate were stolen overnight from the parking area of the Red Carpet Inn motel near the junction of State Road 84 and I-95.
The 600 pounds of explosive material was packed on the flatbed of a red truck that has gone missing.
The red Ford F-350 truck belongs to Dean's Environmental Service, a landscaping company, which was planning to use the material as fertilizer.
:: Sentinel :: - - - :: Herald ::
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A dozen 50-pound bags of ammonium nitrate were stolen overnight from the parking area of the Red Carpet Inn motel near the junction of State Road 84 and I-95.
The 600 pounds of explosive material was packed on the flatbed of a red truck that has gone missing.
The red Ford F-350 truck belongs to Dean's Environmental Service, a landscaping company, which was planning to use the material as fertilizer.
:: Sentinel :: - - - :: Herald ::
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Wednesday, March 18
Seattle: DIFFERENT CROWDS -
Ken Doctor has posted a well-written piece about the P-I's shift into cyberspace, but I disagree with it on a number of points.
The most important point is this: Doctor has utterly failed to recognize that the two daily publications, The Times and The P-I, have entirely different readerships.
There are two large media companies who happen to cover the same approximate geographical area, but they attract different readers. This is probably somewhat the result of the higher population density of that area combined with their general level of literacy. But the point is: different strokes for different folks.
Personally, I found the intensity of local hate-spewing invective and epithets during the shift very repugnant. Seattle has numerous publications, both online and in print, which offered commenting opportunities in reaction to the shift. I was rather shocked by the widespread loss of civility in discourse from the public residing there.
It's my impression that the differences in
readership enclaves may break down along these lines:
-- The P-I readership tends to be concentrated in the old city core; they tend to be younger, more wired and literate, more open to trying new things.
-- The Times readership tends to be more concentrated in the outer ring of suburbs; they may be older, more affluent (?), and lean slightly more to the Right.
-- I do not know any ethnic or religious details of their demographics or whether one group has more pets than the other, etc. The two groups may simply have different lifestyles.
The commenters making all the ugly noise seemed to be almost illiterate, lower middle class, but have an aspirational identification with the readers of the SeaTimes, who they perceive to be more affluent - a bit like the Hard Hats vs the Hippies during the Vietnam War.
These commenters, who seemed to be celebrating the "end" of the P-I, were also expressing the belief that the P-I people were stealing something from the Times people and that the P-I staff and readers should be punished and abused because they are criminals engaged in this mysterious theft. Many of these more illiterate commenters expressed feeling that they were victims of this mysterious crime.
I was baffled by the provenance of this weird belief, which I think should be more closely scrutinized, because it doesn't seem to make any sense in the light of day. It's like claiming that New Yorker readers are victimizing New York Magazine readers - huh???
:: Ken Doctor :: switch flipped ::
...
The most important point is this: Doctor has utterly failed to recognize that the two daily publications, The Times and The P-I, have entirely different readerships.
There are two large media companies who happen to cover the same approximate geographical area, but they attract different readers. This is probably somewhat the result of the higher population density of that area combined with their general level of literacy. But the point is: different strokes for different folks.
Personally, I found the intensity of local hate-spewing invective and epithets during the shift very repugnant. Seattle has numerous publications, both online and in print, which offered commenting opportunities in reaction to the shift. I was rather shocked by the widespread loss of civility in discourse from the public residing there.
It's my impression that the differences in
readership enclaves may break down along these lines:
-- The P-I readership tends to be concentrated in the old city core; they tend to be younger, more wired and literate, more open to trying new things.
-- The Times readership tends to be more concentrated in the outer ring of suburbs; they may be older, more affluent (?), and lean slightly more to the Right.
-- I do not know any ethnic or religious details of their demographics or whether one group has more pets than the other, etc. The two groups may simply have different lifestyles.
The commenters making all the ugly noise seemed to be almost illiterate, lower middle class, but have an aspirational identification with the readers of the SeaTimes, who they perceive to be more affluent - a bit like the Hard Hats vs the Hippies during the Vietnam War.
These commenters, who seemed to be celebrating the "end" of the P-I, were also expressing the belief that the P-I people were stealing something from the Times people and that the P-I staff and readers should be punished and abused because they are criminals engaged in this mysterious theft. Many of these more illiterate commenters expressed feeling that they were victims of this mysterious crime.
I was baffled by the provenance of this weird belief, which I think should be more closely scrutinized, because it doesn't seem to make any sense in the light of day. It's like claiming that New Yorker readers are victimizing New York Magazine readers - huh???
:: Ken Doctor :: switch flipped ::
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Tuesday, March 17
WHEN THE STORY MOVES (3#) -
Many people are watching Seattle,
and some are watching SxSWi, too . . .
# Eli Sanders of The Slog documents the last hard copy edition ritual at the P-I as the late, great ship of Print pulls into port and the P-I sails into cyberspace.
# Jack Shafer at Slate
gives the P-I some feisty advice!
# Brits win SXSWi award for
We Tell Stories, Mike Harvey reports.
...
and some are watching SxSWi, too . . .
# Eli Sanders of The Slog documents the last hard copy edition ritual at the P-I as the late, great ship of Print pulls into port and the P-I sails into cyberspace.
# Jack Shafer at Slate
gives the P-I some feisty advice!
# Brits win SXSWi award for
We Tell Stories, Mike Harvey reports.
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Monday, March 16
Seattle: MIDNIGHT DIVORCE (4#) -
Shhhh . . . . . Shifting in Progress . . . . .
Round about midnight last night, the Seattle P-I content was moved off the homebase North West Source website which it shared with The Seattle Times.
Today, Hearst announced that the P-I will shift to an all-digital platform on the Internet. The last Hard Copy Edition is now scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, March 17th. The JOA has been terminated.
:: Hearst :: - - - :: TechFlash ::
# Some Brits are attending SXSWi in Texas.
And they brought a GPS Hat Game with them :-)
...
Round about midnight last night, the Seattle P-I content was moved off the homebase North West Source website which it shared with The Seattle Times.
Today, Hearst announced that the P-I will shift to an all-digital platform on the Internet. The last Hard Copy Edition is now scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, March 17th. The JOA has been terminated.
:: Hearst :: - - - :: TechFlash ::
# Some Brits are attending SXSWi in Texas.
And they brought a GPS Hat Game with them :-)
...
Sunday, March 15
KHYBER PASS
AREA update (7#) -
Long March, TV Blackout,
Trucks Torched & more . . .
New Delhi TV is reporting that Geo TV has been shut down across all of Pakistan by the Government. Ms Sherry Rehman, their FCC chief, has resigned as a result of this.
# Caravans have been leaving Lahore for Islamabad.
# Dawn has embedded a live blogger in the march.
# The mayor of Kandahar survived an attempted
IED attack on his auto convoy today, according to KNN.
# Trucks torched at Pak-Afghan
Container Terminal near Peshawar.
# Blogger Sanjar in Kabul expresses his views on a prospective reconciliation with Afghan Taliban, according to Prez Obama's new plan.
...
Trucks Torched & more . . .
New Delhi TV is reporting that Geo TV has been shut down across all of Pakistan by the Government. Ms Sherry Rehman, their FCC chief, has resigned as a result of this.
# Caravans have been leaving Lahore for Islamabad.
# Dawn has embedded a live blogger in the march.
# The mayor of Kandahar survived an attempted
IED attack on his auto convoy today, according to KNN.
# Trucks torched at Pak-Afghan
Container Terminal near Peshawar.
# Blogger Sanjar in Kabul expresses his views on a prospective reconciliation with Afghan Taliban, according to Prez Obama's new plan.
...
Mez: NO HUMANS INVOLVED (2#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder -
Tests done on Raffaele Sollecito's computer
do not support his claim that he was
home and using his computer during the
time period in question. Defense intends
to challenge this finding.
:: Nick Pisa ::
:: Nick Squires ::
...
Tests done on Raffaele Sollecito's computer
do not support his claim that he was
home and using his computer during the
time period in question. Defense intends
to challenge this finding.
:: Nick Pisa ::
:: Nick Squires ::
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