Hobbes ([info]kitling) wrote,
@ 2009-07-02 15:01:00
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Cute news article of the Day
http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/national/winter-wonderland-at-melbourne-zoo/20090701-d4ly.html

So they got a pile of snow from Mt Buller and put it in the Bear and Snow Leopard enclosures at the Melbourne Zoo, then they took photos :)

They also took some video footage, the cutest bit being where the bear decides to own the ice sculpture.

http://media.theage.com.au/national/national-news/snow-leopards-prowl-the-ice-612734.html

You should follow the links, because viewing cute stuff online makes you smarter :)

http://www.ncbirofl.com/2009/04/viewing-cute-images-increases.html

There is a little 30second advert at the start of the clip of the animals in the snow. It's interesting the way the Age website is involving, with little flash adverts playing over news articles and other noise being made in Britain about having starting to charge for online news content.

Do you think news media will successfully make the shift to paid online content as they are talking about?

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[info]drwally
2009-07-02 06:10 am UTC (link)
That's cool. No pun intended.

I think it's fair enough to try to get a watermarked ad or flash content in there; we take a lot of these feeds for granted. I see the future of newsmedia online as an aggregator, and veracity/fact checkers. If someone can be verified by Reuters or the Age or the like then it's more trustworthy than a twitter ripple - case in point, Jeff Goldblum!

But traditional newsmedia, ie newspapers, shouldn't be mourned. They were always yesterdays news. I recall looking sadly at the Age and Herald Sun newspapers on the day of MJ's death and there was nothing about it in either of them. I still think a good magazine or weekly has legs, it's tactile, browsable, and should contain analysis and reflection as opposed to factual reportage. Plus they're still a nice fallback when batteries are flat, and you still can't buy a newsfeed off a homeless person so they get half the cover price.



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[info]p_cat
2009-07-02 08:21 am UTC (link)
We're lucky to have more than one medium for news. Newspaper pieces are often more in-depth and have better research than a television piece that runs for one minute and is depends on what story has the best footage.

Newspapers have never depended on cover sales for their revenue. Now that the internet has taken over the classified-advertising market, newspapers - whether online or print - need a new revenue model, and fast. The drop in news quality aimed at bringing more traffic (and hence ad revenues) for online editions will just deter a large proportion of core readers. I would much rather pay a subscription to read the New York Times online without pop-up ads than read the online edition of The Age as it currently stands.

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[info]p_cat
2009-07-02 08:16 am UTC (link)
The ABC website has a clip without ads.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/07/01/2614240.htm

The online edition of The Age is getting so bad that I'm considering going back to a paper edition during the week as well as at weekends.

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[info]drwally
2009-07-02 08:18 am UTC (link)
If you use Firefox with Adblock plus there is nothing but news. Well 'news'...

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[info]p_cat
2009-07-02 08:22 am UTC (link)
I do have ABP but the pop-up video ads get through! It drives me crazy, and I'm not technical enough to fix it.

It seems okay on the Mac at home, the PC at work doesn't seem to want ABP to do its job.

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