Saturday, September 10, 2005
Final follow up on BGDailynews.com
This will be my last entry on this blog about the Bowling Green Daily News. Because this is my personal observations and opinions, they are more appropriately posted at my personal blog @ http://blog.davidfrancis.org
Note: While I may be critical of the new Daily News website, I have written several articles that are complimentary to the local newspaper. I still like the Daily News and will continue to purchase advertising in it. For the record however, and for those who have misquoted me otherwise, I have never written anything that was less than respectful about the local newspaper, it's owners or it's staff.
Also, please note: I am posting this on my personal website instead of my business blog. I offer my impressions, opinions and general rants from time to time but do so as an individual not representing any company, customer or entity other than myself.
My #1 issue with the "Park City Daily News" online? Story links. I predicted before the new website went live (see prediction at this blog post on July 20th) that links to old stories would be broken. I had no idea that they would be this broken. Stories that are published online are transferred to the archive server (newsbank.com) when the next edition is published. This means that if I find a story of interest to a fellow business owner and try to send a link to them, if they don't click on it in the next 24 hours, the link will not work. Furthermore, the way the new archive server works prevents links directly to articles of any kind. The reason? They require a session cookie in order to view an article.
Read the entire opinion at blog.davidfrancis.org
