Comments on: City Pages Launches “cPod.”

By: City Pages - Exception that Proves the Rule | Garrick Van Buren .com

City Pages - Exception that Proves the Rule | Garrick Van Buren .com — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:00:06 +0000

[...] files. At best what the City Pages launched was an mp3 blog. And that’s generous. “It just dawned on me why City Pages hasn’t ever understood this. Traditionally, in orde… “I want to hear what didn’t make the piece” - Paul Schmelzer - Garrick Van [...]

By: taulpaul

taulpaul — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:33:54 +0000

It does kinda seem like one of those, we had this idea over at Cuzzys, during lunch, and threw it together. Maybe our your suggestions will help them make it a better idea.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:25:34 +0000

Ha. I like the 3 x 5 card analogy!

But if Mr. Schmelzer is so tactful, what’s with the truncated RSS feeds on Eyeteeth?…

By: dharma bum

dharma bum — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:53:38 +0000

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that the explanation for this is because City Pages is part of a huge media conglomerate and — just like the Web site of at least one other local media outlet owned by a huge conglomerate — internal politics and institutional stupidity (forgive my harshness) are what brought this embarrassment to the light of day.

But, that’s just one man’s guess.