Comments on: The New York Times Clutters Up Its Homepage With Links From Elsewhere (In Beta)

By: Tuning Out the Clutter « Minggl

Tuning Out the Clutter « Minggl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:58:52 +0000

[...] showing links from Blogrunner, a new aggregator, under the headlines of their own stories. Erick Shonfeld of TechCrunch argues these links don’t belong on the NY Times homepage as they mostly just clutter it up. [...]

By: khan

khan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:04:27 +0000

i want to help poor people of balochistan, pakistan.thats why i have desire to take fund

By: The BBC going for gossip « Moreover Technologies - Company Blog and Latest Information

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:38:55 +0000

[...] An interesting comment about this widget trial: “Our users tell us that one of the things they value most about our service is our policy of linking openly to other websites.” The New York Times has seemingly had the some of the same feedback, and rolled out Times Extra at the end of last year – a good analysis here by Outsell’s Ken Doctor. (Techcrunch meanwhile called it clutter.) [...]

By: Mumbai

Mumbai — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:52:37 +0000

I think this is a very interesting move. Traditional media companies are still trying to grapple with what to do online. While web cos like Digg, Google News, etc have thrived on other people’s content, content owners are still struggling.

I think this is a great move where Nytimes clubs it’s own content and also recommends other great read on the internet. So Nyt becomes the single point of authentic news access.

By: Sự hợp tác của những đối thủ | Baomoi.com's blog

Sự hợp tác của những đối thủ | Baomoi.com's blog — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:28:50 +0000

[...] đã có một bài viết đầu tháng 12 về sự đổi mới này của The New York Times. Dưới đây xin lược dịch lại những ý chính trong bài [...]

By: Giornali USA in crisi, nonostante il digitale : Yurait Social Blog

Giornali USA in crisi, nonostante il digitale : Yurait Social Blog — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:22:19 +0000

[...] ad aprirsi a collaborazioni o rivali d’ogni tipo. Eppure, nel segnalare la cosa, l’autorevole Tech Crunch sembra tutt’altro che colpito, sia per quel che definisce eccessivo confusione della home [...]

By: New York Times Widget |

New York Times Widget | — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:20:29 +0000

[...] auszubauen. Nachdem letzte Woche das Programm “Times Extra” gestartet wurde, welches die Homepage für Drittanbieter öffnet wurden heute die New York Times Widgets veröffentlicht. Die Widgets können inhaltlich nach [...]

By: The New York Times marca el camino digital : Wishful thinking…

The New York Times marca el camino digital : Wishful thinking… — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:25:27 +0000

[...] unos días estrenaban Times Extra, rompiendo el mito de no enlanzar a contenido externo por temor a perder visitantes. NYT ha [...]

By: Industry News: Links « Taazza newsroom

Industry News: Links « Taazza newsroom — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:02:57 +0000

[...] The New York Times Clutters Up Its Homepage With Links From Elsewhere (In Beta) Interesting model for news aggregation. NYTimes understands that the users are looking for options and cannot control them. If you ask us its a brilliant move.. NYTimes wants to become the start page for news.. Thoughts? [...]

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:00:20 +0000

The only problem I have with NYT is that their articles are frickin 5-10 pages long, pretty much the equivalent of an essay…

By: Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » The NY Times Adds Related Content. It Didn’t Work, But It Will.

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:43:34 +0000

[...] the New York Times added “related content” as a test feature. The move was generally panned across the blogosphere, and for good reason: [...]

By: smorty71

smorty71 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:59:12 +0000

Haha! Fair enough

By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:02:49 +0000

totally agree with you : “cover what you do best, link to the rest”
it should be a lesson for the press in the future

By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:00:43 +0000

national news is a real where aggregation is applicable : take the success of the drudge report for example, or google news. the question is : can you do journalism and link journalism at the same time and how?
I think you don’t have to worry about giving audience to your competitors : if you do a good job and link to the best articles on the web, people will come back to your site.
How to link? In the homepage? Just on the sections and articles pages? It’s totally new for the newspapers so I give credit to the NYT for testing, let’s wait for the results

By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:55:24 +0000

and the openess of the initiative should be welcomed. it is SO not the old way to think of the press, and so necessary to be open on the web

By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:52:40 +0000

totally agree with you
but maybe it would be better to make a human selection, as the washington post do in his political browser

By: SRSLY PPL

SRSLY PPL — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:11:52 +0000

Wow, totally unfair.

If TC were showing up on the NYT, this post would be about the openness, Jeff Jarvis’ link economy, and why linking to others is all good (even if the design isn’t perfect yet.)

This time, TC got cut out (!) and now outbound links are “clutter”. SRSLY, PPL.

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:58:44 +0000

At least we try to contain the clutter in one place.

By: New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good | CloudAve

New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good | CloudAve — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:50:39 +0000

[...] from traditional media – which is why I’m surprised TechCrunch sums up the move as The New York Times Clutters Up Its Homepage With Links From Elsewhere (In Beta). Clutter or not, I think it’s a very positive move, so I am with ReadWriteWeb and [...]

By: Beau

Beau — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:42:05 +0000

I agree with David’s thoughts…a good concept, but poorly executed.

By: TV

TV — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:28:29 +0000

I knows its TechCrunch’s deal to hate everything everyone is doing, but I kind of like it.

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:26:41 +0000

@smorty7
You are absolutely right … and the clutter on this very site/page hardly adds ANY value!

@all
NYT is doing the right thing by trying … they have a strong brand and can afford to ask their loyal fans to give these ideas a whirl. The presentation can always be tuned.

It’s the concept that’s important.

@techcrunch
why the negative/dismissive tone about Blogrunner?

By: Brian Mead

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:23:43 +0000

I agree HmmConvenient. They did clutter up the home page, but they will figure out the best implementation soon enough. This is a big step for old school media and we should be excited that the NYT is willing to concede they aren’t the only game in town.

By: Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » The NYTs goes hybrid, but still doesn’t get it.

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:57:23 +0000

[...] they took a big step by beta-launching Times Extra, a widget that algorythmically generates related stories for their main [...]

By: Ted Drake

Ted Drake — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:49:11 +0000

It’s rather ironic that Tech Crunch, land of a thousand widgets and rollover functions would be sounding the alarm about another site cluttering their interface.