http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/ Engadget Comments for New York Times R&D group is braced for the future of content delivery, being totally chill http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 11th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 11th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 11th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/
Apparently they've given up on competing with Craigslist or rediscovering journalistic integrity, so this is all they have left. ]]>May 11th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/
No one is asking you to reproduce the 'newspaper' experience on mobile devices, NYT, so stop trying to shove it down our throats by working so hard to make electronic versions of the NYT look like the pulp version.

It's a stupid war-torn idea that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of these devices and where internet communications has been and is going.

Go look at CNN's mobile site on your iPhone - this is all that is needed - some hyperlinked headlines and maybe a lead photo. That's all we need - we don't need complex column layouts etc. - that's just novelty, not usability. For your site, we don't even need an iPhone app - especially if you are just going to organize content in a way which has no added value beyond how a web page would work.

More importantly, look at Twitter - we are seeking to strip away everything that is of no importance and get succinct. No more song and dance, no more fancy fonts, no more paste-up - just native content delivery.

I kinda get sick to my stomach when I think about this guy and maybe 3-5 design people and 2 engineers at NYT wasting 100's of 1000's of dollars trying to make silly little 'branded' versions of the NYT for individual devices - what a waste.




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If Twitter is your idea of news, or even the ideal news format, I hope your news never gets anywhere near my news. No offense; just a total divergence of opinion.

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Take a clue guys, subscription based news is DEAD. Nobody wants to pay for news anymore. You can make all the readers you want but if nobody is willing to pay for your content your back to square one holding a flaming bag of dog turds (again).

]]>May 11th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/Newspapers are now trying to retool for the 21st century and most are failing at it. The new uber Kindle won't save them either. It comes down to providing that data in a more realtime fashion and if they did that along with other digital benefits. *shrugs* I don't know. Maybe localized news based on your GPS location or something?
Again they aren't dead. At least not yet. I think there will be a number of papers that will "get it" and transition over. But for papers like the NYT who are either unwilling or unable to see the writing on the wall....yah doomed.]]>May 11th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/
Journalists need to get paid for their work. The internet can't get spoiled where everything for them is free forever.

It's going to change soon.]]>May 11th 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 11th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 11th 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 11th 2009 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 12th 2009 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 12th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/new-york-times-randd-group-is-braced-for-the-future-of-content-del/May 13th 2009 9:31AM