Comments on: My Hopes About MinnPost http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/ Minneapolis, Minnesota Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:08:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Minnpost goes live : Daily Mole: Local news. Arts. People. Conversation. Minneapolis and St. Paul. http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-69392 Minnpost goes live : Daily Mole: Local news. Arts. People. Conversation. Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:06:51 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-69392 [...] Recommended: Aaron Landry has an excellent post about his hopes and expectations for Minnpost, here. [...] [...] Recommended: Aaron Landry has an excellent post about his hopes and expectations for Minnpost, here. [...]

]]> By: Sherman B http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-66143 Sherman B Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:27:17 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-66143 I'd never heard of MnPost until I read this post. I found their editor's note condescending enough that I don't really feel a need to go back there until I hear something otherwise. I’d never heard of MnPost until I read this post. I found their editor’s note condescending enough that I don’t really feel a need to go back there until I hear something otherwise.

]]> By: powerade09 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65881 powerade09 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:11:07 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65881 I agree...I think half of running an internet site is the marketing, layout,and presentation of whatever site it is youre running (whether it be blog, shopping site, informational, etc..) In today's world, you can't create a popular online news source without adding all the extra gizmos enable viewers to more or less interact. If minnpost is to be successful, it needs to be more than a place to go to read articles from 50 year olds who write about minnesota... I realize they want 'real' journalism and not just blogging. But, realistically...they need to have well-written content, an attractive design/layout, and all the web 2.0. features that other news sources have...It doesn't need to be about 'britney spears', no..But give me something to keep it interactive and make me want to come back! Unique visitors are the internet's ad currency, and if minnpost is only putting out 2 articles(and a limited number of posts) a day...I don't see how they can justify this business model... More unique visitors, more clicks; you more stuff to look at/do on the site! Take Marketwatch.com for example....Their content is good..people take it seriously...and they have tons of features... Now I realize its minnpost.com's first day....but they need to adjust their business plan going forward...or this ain't gonna work.... I agree…I think half of running an internet site is the marketing, layout,and presentation of whatever site it is youre running (whether it be blog, shopping site, informational, etc..) In today’s world, you can’t create a popular online news source without adding all the extra gizmos enable viewers to more or less interact.

If minnpost is to be successful, it needs to be more than a place to go to read articles from 50 year olds who write about minnesota…

I realize they want ‘real’ journalism and not just blogging. But, realistically…they need to have well-written content, an attractive design/layout, and all the web 2.0. features that other news sources have…It doesn’t need to be about ‘britney spears’, no..But give me something to keep it interactive and make me want to come back!

Unique visitors are the internet’s ad currency, and if minnpost is only putting out 2 articles(and a limited number of posts) a day…I don’t see how they can justify this business model…

More unique visitors, more clicks; you more stuff to look at/do on the site!

Take Marketwatch.com for example….Their content is good..people take it seriously…and they have tons of features…

Now I realize its minnpost.com’s first day….but they need to adjust their business plan going forward…or this ain’t gonna work….

]]> By: sornie http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65872 sornie Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:43:46 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65872 My definition of a blog is any form of writing that offers up an opinion. The topic being written about can be anything but if journalists, and I have witnessed it firsthand, blatantly show their bias in their blogging, their journalistic writing tends to lose its credibility (in newspapers). Being online only does bring a huge amount of freedom and an endless amount of space (something severely lacking in print-only media) for writers of any form to cover items more in-depth. I hope that it isn't just writing at MinnPost and that they offer up plenty of multimedia content because it is just easier to ddigest for some stories. My definition of a blog is any form of writing that offers up an opinion. The topic being written about can be anything but if journalists, and I have witnessed it firsthand, blatantly show their bias in their blogging, their journalistic writing tends to lose its credibility (in newspapers). Being online only does bring a huge amount of freedom and an endless amount of space (something severely lacking in print-only media) for writers of any form to cover items more in-depth. I hope that it isn’t just writing at MinnPost and that they offer up plenty of multimedia content because it is just easier to ddigest for some stories.

]]> By: Petra http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65871 Petra Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:38:35 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65871 Oh, and yes. Damn is it ugly. Oh, and yes. Damn is it ugly.

]]> By: Ed Kohler http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65870 Ed Kohler Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:27:05 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65870 Looks like you'll be hoping on the RSS front for a while. Looks like you’ll be hoping on the RSS front for a while.

]]> By: Petra http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65869 Petra Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:26:17 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65869 This whole anti-blog thing is just silly. Blogs like Talking Points Memo* do more actual journalism that most of the papers around the country combined. What I would like MinnPost to do is embrace their liberation from the newspapers and see what this interweb the kids are talking about can do for them. This whole anti-blog thing is just silly. Blogs like Talking Points Memo* do more actual journalism that most of the papers around the country combined. What I would like MinnPost to do is embrace their liberation from the newspapers and see what this interweb the kids are talking about can do for them.

]]> By: Tom Bartel http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65866 Tom Bartel Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:33:09 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65866 Aaron, well said. Aaron, well said.

]]> By: Two Knives http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65862 Two Knives Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:20:04 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65862 11:13 a.m. "D-Day" Hysterical. They're doing handstands trying to avoid being associated with "blog." Posters? You've got to be kidding me. 11:13 a.m. “D-Day”

Hysterical. They’re doing handstands trying to avoid being associated with “blog.”

Posters? You’ve got to be kidding me.

]]> By: justinph http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65841 justinph Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:20:26 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65841 Couldn't have said it better myself. Joel Kramer was <a href="http://www.ericblackink.com/2007/11/02/me-on-a-panel-downtown-mpls-sat-am/" rel="nofollow">part of a panel on this very subject last week</a>. I think maybe he understands the business model, or at least <i>thinks</i> he understands the business model. And he surely seems to get that the content is desired. But what he <i>doesn't</i> get is the medium. Then again, I'd love to be proven wrong. And, damn, that site is ugly. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Joel Kramer was part of a panel on this very subject last week. I think maybe he understands the business model, or at least thinks he understands the business model. And he surely seems to get that the content is desired. But what he doesn’t get is the medium.

Then again, I’d love to be proven wrong. And, damn, that site is ugly.

]]> By: Chuck Olsen http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65830 Chuck Olsen Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:35:05 +0000 http://s4xton.com/1625/my-hopes-about-minnpost/#comment-65830 I believe you just schooled MinnPost, sir. Many issues surrounding the "journalism vs. blogging" debate were covered in my 2004 epic, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-8920472176280937346&ei=7FgyR-reH6GegAOT743rDw&usg=AFQjCNFUp9Q7XVTIEi0YnF8UfcZ3XI5Jgg&sig2=RpsJf5_iLkxivjZtybg6zg" rel="nofollow">Blogumentary</a>. It's available at your local library. About the "Current Posts" thing -- I bet it's equal parts marketing and ego. It's hard to raise big bucks if you're just another blog, so call it something new and bang everyone over the head with the word "professional." I believe you just schooled MinnPost, sir.

Many issues surrounding the “journalism vs. blogging” debate were covered in my 2004 epic, Blogumentary. It’s available at your local library.

About the “Current Posts” thing — I bet it’s equal parts marketing and ego. It’s hard to raise big bucks if you’re just another blog, so call it something new and bang everyone over the head with the word “professional.”

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