Tag: nevadaappealMonday, November 2, 2009The Nevada Appeal has been going through a lot of changes on their website, tweaking the design and adding new features. But it still seems like nobody over there is able to wrangle their RSS feed. For months their stories have been coming into Google Reader five, six, seven times. So I'll sit down and find 178 new articles from the Appeal, but discover that it's the same 25 stories repeated over and over and over. The technical reason for this is that their system is adding a little bug to the end of all the URLs, like http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20091102/NEWS/910319927/-1/rss02. Then an hour later the bug will change, to rss04. Then rss01. Then RSS01, in all capitals. And every time it changes, Google Reader sees that the permalink, which is supposed to be a unique identifier, has changed. So it thinks it's a new item and it adds it back to the top of the list. And what you end up with are RSS hiccups all the way down, and that makes me dread reading the Nevada Appeal's feed because I know what a slog it's going to be, seeing the same headlines 8 times over. I'm sure there's a technical solution, a switch they can flip in their system that will get rid of those little rss01 suffixes. It's been happening since June and it's driving me buggy! Tags: nevadaappeal Friday, May 15, 2009I'm not sure what the iAppeal, the new weekly e-mail newsletter from the Nevada Appeal, is going to be like, but I'm signing up to find out. Tags: nevadaappeal Monday, May 4, 2009If you're on your front porch looking for your newspaper today, quit looking. You won't find it. Today is the first week of the Appeal's new schedule, where the paper will not be published on Mondays and Tuesdays for the foreseeable future. Sunday's edition was extra thick to make up for it, and they do have new stories on their website today, like they promised, although it seems to be significantly less than usual. You can even download and print the daily crossword. Tags: carsoncity nevadaappeal Monday, April 27, 2009You'd think this would be the kind of thing they would announce on their website, but instead this announcement can only be found buried on page 3 of today's paper. It seems that today's Nevada Appeal is going to be the last Monday edition for a while, as they're shutting down their presses on Monday and Tuesday to cut costs. They promise their newsroom will still be keeping a seven-day schedule, and this will just mean increased online coverage on those two days. The full text of the announcement follows:
Tags: carsoncity nevadaappeal Monday, March 30, 2009Carson City's daily paper, the Nevada Appeal, is going to start printing in a tabloid format every day beginning Wednesday. I'm always wary when I see any big announcement that involves the date April 1st, but I supposes April Fool's Jokes are usually made on April Fools, not in advance. And they're usually a little more outlandish. The Appeal already prints a small tabloid edition, the "Nevada Appeal Today" that is given out for free in racks and contains nothing but wire stories. But now the paper itself is dropping the broadsheet format and going for a smaller size. The move is meant to save on paper and printing costs, and also gives them another opportunity to reorganize the front page and shuffle the sections of the paper around. The Appeal has been printed in tabloid before, from 1951 to 1961. My opinions are all over the place on this. In this region there's always been a distinction. The broadsheets are the big dailies for the community, the ones you pay for, like the Nevada Appeal, Record Courier, and Reno Gazette Journal. And the tabloids are the free weekly papers, like the Carson Times and the Reno News and Review. So there could be a perception backlash against the Appeal for doing this, with people associating it with "those" papers, and feeling like they're not getting value for their money. But at the same time, the newspaper industry needs to be shook up, and new ideas need to fall out of it. A move to tabloid isn't a wildly radical idea, but it shows at least that they're not completely adverse to changing. As time goes on the thought of getting a piece of paper on your doorstop every day with yesterday's news written on it seems to get more and more silly, and declining revenues and subscription rates are reflecting that. And the Appeal isn't going out of business like some papers, or going online-only like others that have had trouble. But if they're willing to go to a tabloid format now, maybe next year there will be some other experiment they'll be willing to try, and then another. Slowly the newspaper industry is going to change until the "paper" part isn't as important as the "news" part. And there will be many ways to get news from the Nevada Appeal, with paper being just one of them. Tags: carsoncity nevadaappeal Friday, March 6, 2009
Jeff Moser of Bike Carson and Muscle Powered has a guest column in the Nevada Appeal today, all about his last 16 months of biking to work.
Tags: bikecarson nevadaappeal Sunday, December 28, 2008Bill Dolan writes the last article of the year on Carson City's history, about Carson resident Yee Bong who ran a cafe in Chinatown. And he ends on a note that makes it sound like this feature won't be coming back next year. He says "This column may appear from time to time as space and interest allows," but I think we all know that when it comes to covering history, newspapers have precious little of either. Tags: nevadaappeal sesquicentennial Sunday, December 7, 2008Today the Appeal has an article on the Keeley Institute in Carson City, which was a branch of a nationwide chain that promised to cure alcoholism by injecting mystery chemicals into your body. There's also a look ahead to next week's Victorian Christmas Tour, where several west side historic homes open their doors to visitors. The tour is Sunday, Dec. 14 from noon to 5 p.m. Tickets can be had at the Foreman-Roberts House Museum and other locations for $12. Tags: nevadaappeal sesquicentennial Sunday, November 30, 2008Sue Ballew today brings us the story of Nevada's seventh governor, Roswell K. Colcord, and the house he lived in, which still stands on Carson's west side. In the days before the official Governor's Mansion was built, whatever house the governor was living in became the "Governor's" "mansion", so this house held the title for the four years Colcord was in office. Tags: carsoncity nevadaappeal sesquicentennial Monday, November 24, 2008Sue Ballew has the story of the Financial Panic of 1907, and how banks in Carson City were affected. Tags: nevadaappeal sesquicentennial |
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