Re: [backstage] BBC Touch

2006-11-01 Thread Matthew Somerville
Chris Riley wrote, reordered slightly: In particular I think its useful for highlighting issues the public care more about. For instance a couple of says ago whilst Pakistan was the headline, most of us were reading the climate change story. Are you sure Pakistan was the headline? The climate

Re: [backstage] BBC Touch

2006-11-01 Thread Chris Riley
Hi Matthew,Thanks for your feedback. On the Pakistan thing, I'm not sure, it was just when I glanced at it when writing the mail that stuck in my mind. So you're probably right :o)On your second point about the editorial, completely agree that they shouldn't be ordering stories by popularity (I

Re: [backstage] BBC Touch

2006-11-01 Thread Tom Loosemore
personally, I think it's a fabulous experiment in data. from a news angle? vast amounts of news consumption is people who don't click a link or read a single story - they go to the homepage to check if anything 'important' has happened (usually not). That's editorship, which is different from