Not done yet
Probably only those of you that read the djkelly.ca Blog through RSS or receive it through email are going to read this, but I wanted to let you know that despite my recent lack of blogging activity AND despite the fact that my domain registrar is doing their best to ensure “djkelly.ca” sites are no longer visible, I am still here and I have plenty to say. More on why I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like to be in a future post.
So, I wanted to say thank you for being a loyal reader and I will be back with actual content soon! (Tell your friends I’m not done yet!)
Oh, Herald… hallelujah the RSS works again at last
As you have probably seen me post about before here, here and here I have a love/hate relationship with the Calgary Herald’s presence in the online universe. The latest issue of which was the fact their new Top Stories RSS feed crashed after only a week or so, and they haven’t bothered to fix since. So I took matters into my own hands today and emailed the Herald.
Well if you don’t know, it is finally fixed!
They’re not sure why it wasn’t working, but its working now. (I know others who had the same issue with their RSS so I’m not just a techno-moron who couldn’t figure it out! So stop thinking that!)
But here’s some other exciting news about the Herald and the Internets: in a subsequent email I got from Andrew MacDonald, Assistant News Editor – Digital (fancy title), he let me in on a little known fact: the Herald just launched a Facebook app! Hot damn. Now that’s progress. Maybe this is the start of the Herald actually building a decent presence online. A presence that can actually fill the void that is Alberta online news. (It’s such a large void!)
I’ll install app tomorrow and after testing it out I’ll give you all a review. (Fingers crossed for a good Herald online experience. Come on Herald, you can do it! I know you have it in you.)
Oh, Herald… at least you make me laugh every so often
The front page of the Herald today made me laugh.
Not because it was funny, but because every time I walked by a box on the street and saw the lead headline: “Ottawa targets identity thieves”, I couldn’t help but think to myself how the subheading should go something like: “But they keep getting the wrong man.”
It’s an interesting article none-the-less. You can find it online here. Warning: It’s not as funny as my mind thought it might be.
While we are on the topic of the Calgary Herald…
HERALD RSS UPDATE: After noticing that the Herald RSS went down on Saturday I’m happy to report… they haven’t done a thing to fix it. I don’t think they know how mad this makes me. I’m kinda fuming, actually. I just don’t understand how this kind of poor customer service exists. Here’s a link to Seth Godin someone at the Herald should read. I would have been happier if they never tried to offer RSS in the first place. At least then I only would have been disappointed in their online offerings rather than what I am now, which is downright ticked off.
Oh, Herald… maybe the internets aren’t the best place for you
Last Wednesday I passed on my thanks and luv to the Calgary Herald for finally entering the 21st-century by adding RSS feeds to their website.
I was so happy mainly because it was unexpected.
Now they’ve gone and done what maybe I should have expected all along: the RSS feeds are broken. And have been since Saturday. (You know you have subscribers to those and this is pretty much the same as not delivering someone’s paper for three days straight, right?)
Sigh. Oh, Herald…
Herald + RSS = deserving of DJ’s luv
Today is a very good day for my relationship with the Calgary Herald. We’re BFF now. Or, for now.
I’ve often cursed the Herald for wanting to put so much of an emphasis in its online content. “But DJ, why would you do that? You love the internet. You get almost all your news from it.” Well voice inside my head, that’s precisely the reason I’ve disliked the Herald. Let me explain…
I had a great conversation with the new – at the time – Herald Publisher Malcolm Kirk early this past summer at an fpInfomart sponsored event where he was the keynote speaker. Kirk was talking about the ‘new way we get news’. He’s talk was filled with a lot of ‘in the future we will…’ type comments, but he was short on details. My point at that time was about “free content”: How do you give it away for free on a website when you are so used to getting money for it? He again didn’t have a specific answer, but was honest in saying they were looking at all the options.
And so it has been from that time forward that I could only read the odd story on the Herald website (that wasn’t locked for online subscribers only). And I could only read the stories I went looking for.
But who does that? Who goes looking for the news? Other than reporters? Call me lazy if you will, but I want my news delivered to my door in the morning and to my television at 6pm and 11pm. Actually, scratch that. I want my news delivered to my computer whenever the heck I want it. And with RSS feeds I’ve been getting just that for a couple years now. At least I have from CBC…
But now! BUT NOW I can finally get my news from the Herald from RSS feeds as well.
Which is good news for me and them. Because, honestly, how seriously can you take a publisher who says he wants his paper to be on the leading edge of news delivery in the 21st Century when his website doesn’t even have an RSS feed! (Heck this blog even has one! — It’s over there on the right-hand side of the page if you’re not a subscriber but would like to be.)
Now about those truncated feeds Malcolm…
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