Big Journalism Still Doesn’t Get the Web
Reading this article on CNN about two guys who are going to give 1,000,000 discs back to AOL is good and all, but partway into the article, they write this:
Their Web site has brought in about 70,000 CD’s from as far away as Brazil and Africa. In the process, the two are having a lot of fun.
Their homepage shows pictures reportedly sent in by frustrated disc recipients. There’s a snapshot of a room wallpapered with the CDs and another of a dog with a disc clenched in its jaw.
Alright, so what’s the damn web site address? There isn’t a single hyperlink in the entire story. It’s not like they’re printing the news anywhere. The big companies only pretend to understand the web. Most don’t get it at all.
There it is. NoMoreAolCDs.com. Not even linked inside the story. It’s in a sidebar. Terrible, terrible reporting.