Extremely Short Articles, Tons of Wire Content and Totally Soulless
By Richard Eriksson on March 19, 2005 - 2:27am
Darren Barefoot writes about the new Vancouver daily, Metronews (which we are reviewing as well):
the new 16-page daily is pretty much what we expected: extremely short articles, tons of wire content and (as Roland points out), totally soulless. Even the comics are unfunny. I very surprised at the lack of advertising in the inaugural issue. Excluding self-promoting pieces, there’s less than three pages of ads out of the 16.If I Had a Naughty Parrot…
The inaugural issue of the paper had 7 Fido ads (I found a copy on the bus, and was bored with the copy, so yes, I counted the amount of cell phone company advertisements), which struck me as a lot for any size of paper. Writing in the comments to Darren's post, Jan Karlsbjerg notes that papers in his native Copenhagen tried the same thing, and largely don't care about "Web 2.0" stuff:
These free newspapers are deliberately thin and crappy (very limited money devoted to writing and editing, almost pure selection of wire stories), and don't expect the site to get RSS or anything like that -- that's not what the product is for.If I Had a Naughty Parrot…
Does anyone know the name of the song that plays in the latest Fido ad? The one with the dog that runs through the city with a whole crowd of people and they all land up surrounding a christmas tree.... The song just has yodelling throughout the whole commercial...
Im almost positive that the yodelling song is by Jewel. I have seen her yodel live a few times and it sounds identical to her...
Hey. I wrote Fido about this and they e-mailed me the song back. It was written especially for that commercial and is performed by a french lady (?) named Manon Bedard.