NY Times evolves lungs and stubby legs
NYTimes.com has come a looong way.
At first, all the links on the site pointed to more of its own content, except for ads, as if the NYT was the only place ever worth reading. Then the NYT took a big step backwards with the Times Select program, locking its most valuable content behind a pay wall. But the Times saw that, although they were making money, they were losing influence. So, they came up with Times Topics as a place where we could point our links, enabling the NYT to climb up the Google rankings. And they unlocked their oldest archives, which is a great social boon.
And now they’ve started Times Extra: Articles on the NYTimes.com site now are suffixed with links out to other newspapers and blogs that talk about the same topic. So, at the end of an article on, say, Obama’s economic pledge, there may be a link to a Washington Post story, a post at Crooks and Liars, and maybe even a comment section.
Consider how unlikely such a thing would have seemed ten or even give years ago. Well done, NYT
Interestingly enough, the day before you posted this, the NY Times changed their website chief: “The New York Times Company announced on Friday that Denise F. Warren, a senior vice president and chief advertising officer for The New York Times Media Group, was adding the role of general manager of NYTimes.com.”
I don’t have any idea what this will do to the positive changes. I think they can not go back to the lower levels of service.
Community and Connection. That’s how companies will evolve in these times, and use
Now if only we didn’t have to jump through huge hoops to be able to comment on newspaper online articles. Sometimes the time it takes to register is longer than the comment I wish to make. :)
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