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Sun. Feb 25, 2007
AJC Lost Online?
A week or so ago, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution made a big to-do about sweeping changes in their operation that would show their realization of the power of the web as well as the decline of print. In a memo to Atlanta Journal-Constitution staffers Julia Wallace wrote: “Online, we will show that we know Atlanta best, providing superlative news and information and becoming the preferred medium for connecting local communities.“
Here’s the home page of that “preferred medium” this morning:
It was like that yesterday, too, but I figured it was just a random oddity. Today, there it is again. It may be fixed by now. But instead of showing “that we know Atlanta best,” they’re showing that online … they’re often completely lost. 404.
First lesson in being a citizen on the web: when you place a web page at a particular URL, it should remain there. Permanently. Not disappear in two weeks. I’m talking about your archives … but it applies to your home page as well.
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OK, a pattern is being established. It’s Friday night, 9:30pm, and the AJC home page has once again been misplaced.
Are they taking the weekends off now? Is this part of their planned cutbacks? I mean, it’s not like there was a big story in Atlanta today.
[Actually, there were two. Drowned out in the coverage of the bus that went off the bridge was the Atlanta police officer who drove his big Cadillac Escalade the wrong way down I-75/85 and had a head on collision with an ambulance, in which he died. I’d link the story, but, well, you know… it’s 404]