{"id":9083,"date":"2014-02-27T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:16:34","slug":"may-i-have-some-less-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/02\/27\/may-i-have-some-less-please\/","title":{"rendered":"May I have some less, please?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We think it’s time to lose the “kitchen sink” approach. Photo: alexis<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

For more than 10 years, NCPR has been emailing news and information to subscribers, who generously allow us space in their inboxes. And over that time we have developed a kind of routine.<\/p>\n

Each weekday, for example, we send out what we have been calling a regional news brief. But in fact, it is not so brief and it is assembled daily for your reading pleasure by a robot that hits our feeds and dumps the programmed results into an email. So each weekday you get every news story published that day, and every community calendar event for that day, and all the recent In Box blog posts, and all the top stories from NPR, and the current Photo of the Day.<\/p>\n

Today’s “brief” contained 36 pieces of content, 16 of which also included 30-60 words of introductory text each. We have come to think that, a) this is too much stuff, b) it’s not particularly user-friendly, and c) it doesn’t work very effectively to direct people to the most important things they need to know each day, or to the really interesting stuff they might not otherwise run across.<\/p>\n

Starting next week, we are going to try a different approach. Here’s what we’re thinking–a short handcrafted curation of four or five features and stories each day–the best or the most important work that we are doing, or that other producers in public media are doing that day. Maybe a few sentences summarizing other news with a link to the news portion of the website. We’ll keep the Photo of the Day, and we’ll try to always include something else that will delight and divert, as well as inform. And that’s it–short, simple, and designed to play nicely with phones and small screen devices.<\/p>\n

There will still be links that go to the calendar or to the weather at NCPR, so you can easily get what you want there. But if you don’t need to know what is playing at the NAC in Ottawa tonight, or who’s at the coffeehouse in Glens Falls, or you aren’t interested in every piece of AP copy we published this morning, you won’t need to wade through all that stuff. And it will be written and sent by a real live person each day.<\/p>\n

Once we work the kinks out of the daily news email, we’ll take a crack at betterfying the weekly Listening Post<\/em>. Your suggestions are welcome in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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