Friday, November 26, 2004
REALLY SCANNING THE NEWSA German newspaper is using a select group of readers equipped with scanning pens to help determine what to publish, according to a report at Editors Weblog. Information from the scans goes to the newspaper editors. Ulrike Trux reports:
Mixed pages, such as "news from all over the world," are most popular; readers like to have photographs in their articles, not only pure text. Culture and local sports are the least popular topics, according to the Main Post's readerscan.
Trux further quotes Main Post editor-in-chief Michael Reinhart as saying the intent isn't to use the data to cut sections of the newspaper. Instead it's to create a newspaper that attracts the broadest range of readers while using online and separately printed supplements for information "that the majority does not read intensively." |
MAINTENANCE
Over the next day or so, I'll be going to a slight redesign of this site. It'll take place a little at a time, so if you arrive here and find that it looks broken, check back a little later. All the changes should be in place, and problems fixed, by the end of the weekend. |
Last update: 12/1/04; 9:38:35 AM .
