What Kyle Cost the Chronicle
Bay Area sports fans are used to painful seasons, but usually it’s a chronic pain. Especially with the Niners, the usual season sees poor play spread out over the entire season. We aren’t disappointed, because we never expected much. Then there was today. Today, 49er faithful and Bay Area-bandwagon hoppers alike felt the most acute sort...
The problem with newspaper sites
My high school library cancelled its subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle after the librarian decided that since the content is free online, there was no need to subscribe. It’s true that SFGate.com has the same articles as the paper. But I almost never read those articles online, and I regularly buy the paper. Why? Because...
Posting the paper
One of the coolest features on any newspaper website in the country is the Washington Post’s “Today’s paper” newspaper viewer. The Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C., has a “front-page gallery” showing the day’s front page from hundreds of newspapers from around the nation and world. You can compare a newspaper in rural Alabama to...
