Posts about: Newspapers
20 minutes after the Englang game finished at 9.55pm, half the major UK newspaper sites hadn't published the results.
The case of the leaked DNA test on 13-year-old alleged dad Alfie Patten has revealed a big problem with court-ordered reporting restrictions in the internet age: there is nothing to stop websites repeating the information unless they know about the court order banning this. And under the terms of the order itself, there's no way to find out about the order.
The media are banned from reporting DNA test results for 13-year-old 'dad' Alfie Patten - has anyone told Walt Disney and BrandRepublic/Haymarket?
ow.ly is framing the destination URL, in direct contravention of many sites' T&Cs - rather than directly redirecting to the target URL, like most URL shorteners,
Newspaper sites did very badly at linking to google's new street view service.
News sites are bad at linking out. Which of them managed to link to charity site rednoseday.com on its big day - and which failed to make mentions into proper hyperlinks.
What the Daily Express search examples tell us about its editorial agenda: anorexia, abortion, muslims, big ben, recipe, bnp, friends provident, apprentice, floods, care homes, immigration, binge drinking, lottery, Madeleine McCann, Liverpool FC.
External links / linking out - which stage of denial are you at? There are 7 before you reach a sensible place ...
London's ‘morning' Metro newspaper goes to press so early that it failed to report on Arsenal's penalty shoot-out win over Roma last night
Loads of newspaper websites order you not to link to them without written permission. Few go as far as the FT and suggest you can't even read the site ...
For a body in charge of standards, the ABCe's website is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
When it comes to Fark, it's the Sun wots winning it. The Guardian come second - and yet again, the FT, Mirror and Express come last.
The Guardian has had more stores submitted to Reddit, the user-submitted news site, than any other UK newspaper website.
The Daily Telegraph has had more stories submitted to Digg, the social news website for sharing content, than any other UK newspaper site.
Which newspapers are stumbled a lot - and which are not ...
How newspaper sites' sitelinks appear in google - and what that tells you about their reporting bias and site strucutre
The Guardian's redesign of its comment section breaks its own accessibility policy by relying purely on javascript. Not only that, it's a usability nightmare.
The Guardian is using some sort of javascript to avoid showing user profile pages to google.
A list of authority sites that don't link fairly.