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The County Press Gets Real With Video ‘n’ Stuff!
Tuesday, 11th March, 2008 at 2:18 pm, Isle of Wight
Wow … hold the phone! The County Press have video on their Web site! We know, we know, it’s very thrilling isn’t it?
Once seen as old fashioned stick-in the-muds, the CP has gone all modern on us and is showing a video of the birth of a two-toed sloth (best not to watch it while eating your lunch though).
We assume they’ll be doing a version for the video for the weekly printed version too. Perhaps a flip book will be issued so all of those people who don’t use T’ InterWeb can have the joy of watching the blocky video unveil in front of them.
More Modernity!
You may (or not) have been noting the changes to the CP paper and Web editions over the last year or so.
On the front page of the CP they’re now telling you can find updated news on the CP Web site, alongside such radical behaviour, they’ve also been doing their very best to keep the Web site updated daily with selected stories.
There’s a fine line for the dear old CP as, if they to put all of their news online, no-one will be buying the paper version and a huge amount of their income disappears - paper sales as well as those hundreds of adverts filling the paper.
Who could imagine a news Web site, giving away 10+ news stories about the Island on a daily basis, as they happen, without having to wait until the end of the week to read them?!?!?
That is just too much!
Not only have they been having audio streams of pop combos available to be listen to, if you’re patient, but they’ve been throwing up graphics on their Home page with gay abandon.
We’d imagine that the Island has gone cock-a-hoop over being able to carry out online searches of Livestock adverts too!
Those who are more interested in Humans, are bound to be spending their valuable time pouring over the last four weeks of Family Announcements, that the CP have helpfully laid out in a PDF - just imagine the joy radiating as the family gather around the screen to look at it. We just know that everyone will be on the edge of their seats waiting for them to be released at 5pm EVERY Friday.
Stop it now!
Those who own a mobile cellular telephone (the type that doesn’t attach to the wall of the house - they’re quite a new thing), will be able to view an especially created version of the CP Web site of mobile telephonic device, by using a special .mobi Web address.
Sshh! Don’t tell, but since around the middle of 2007, VentnorBlog automatically detects if you’re accessing using a mobile and will show a mobile-friendly version to you automatically, without the need to put in a special Web address.
It would be immodest to suggest that VentnorBlog has had anything to do with the CP finally pulling their finger out and dragging themselves into the 19th Century - but there you go.
Look out Isle of Wight, you never know, the CP could be doing podcasts next!
Top graphic: 1886 Illustration of the kineograph by John Barnes Linnet.
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March 12th, 2008 at 8:52 am
“…There’s a fine line for the dear old CP as, if they to put all of their news online, no-one will be buying the paper version and a huge amount of their income disappears - paper sales as well as those hundreds of adverts filling the paper…”
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that’s a problem for all the printed media nowadays.
at least the IWCP can’t be any worse than the jersey evening post which seems to carry very little of its news content in full online.
http://www.jerseyeveningpost.com
http://www.thisisjersey.com
August 12th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Now that was a very very funny article.
thanks for keeping us entertained.
Go easy on the dear old CP. They mean well, and their technical lagging makes the ventnor blog all the more a triumph.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
“Go easy on the dear old CP.”
Why?
As an investigative organ, it is about as much use as Hetty Wainthrop.
“They mean well”
As my old History teacher used to say to me:
“Not good enough”.