Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 08/01/2008, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally I would rather the most read/most emailed reflected exactly >> what the user was doing, and wasn't "most emailed stories from the >> last 7 days excluding the also in the news section because we are the >> BBC and we want our readers to look very serious all the time" Not on the front page.
IMHO The front page of the BBC news should not have 4 year old stories appearing on it 'by mistake'. In the entertainment section, see also section etc etc then yes. The front page should be current. If it *is* now current for some bizzare reason then re-report it. > That misses the point - a casual reader (and even some regular > readers) can be misled by those links pointing to old news. The 'Most > Emailed' links are presented under a headline 'Most Popular Stories > Now', and next to a section 'Around the world now' (on the page I'm > looking at) which implies that the stories are current. Indeed. It was only last week I realised that 'Most Popular Stories Now' was a link and wasn't actually a section title!!! > It's a fine objective to show real data (although dubious when it > reflects 'gaming'), but it must be clear to the reader what the > context is of what you're showing. And I note that the 'See Also' stories in the sidebar *are* date stamped. So is it a technology problem? (I could accept that See Also are edited into the story manually and the dates are re-keyed) David - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
