Wordie: Newspaper names: Comments

kad:

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:00:56 +0000

I'm at Rutgers too (in Camden). Here it's the Gleaner.

What an excellent list.

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:21:29 +0000

I'm much more interested in The Gaucho myself. :-)

Comment by colleen, 12 months ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:29:48 +0000

No, no, you do make a good point about competition. It's best to avoid fostering that, and I see how the stats would do so.

Comment by jennarenn, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:02:08 +0000

I'm so surprised! It must be about eight months old and I've never seen it either. What do these other people know that I don't???

Comment by trivet, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:04:08 +0000

Me, too!

Comment by John, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:33:21 +0000

The Grackle? Oh, but reesetee, I do want to know.

Comment by uselessness, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:22:00 +0000

We have a local weekly paper in Albuquerque called the Alibi. It's a good "alternative" publication. Additionally, I agree that competition would be not-so-good for Wordie lists (apart from WordPlay games) and I regret suggesting it. There's already a degree of that with the "Most Citations" and "Wordiest Wordies" rankings, but there's never been a cutthroat edge to those, and no fights to be #1.

Comment by oroboros, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:03:15 +0000

Mine's called The Gaucho.

Comment by reesetee, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:38:25 +0000

My college newspaper was called The Grackle. You don't want to know why.

Comment by reesetee, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:37:48 +0000

Oh, I don't know, John. Traffic stats sound great at first, but if it makes Wordie competitive, I'd sooner not see them at all.

Comment by John, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:22:34 +0000

Gondolier, that's fantastic. My college newspaper was (and still is) called the Orient. "The Oldest Continuously Published College Weekly in the U.S." A pretty caveated claim :-)

Comment by John, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:15:37 +0000

Hm... maybe I should have kept my yap shut :-)

I use Google Analytics for traffic stats, which is an amazing service, but it's external to the site. As far as I know there's no easy way for me to programatically check Analytics and incorporate those stats into the site. And because Analytics is so good, I don't even pay attention to the actual log files on the server -- in fact, being a bad sysadmin, every once in a while I just go in and delete them. So, no public stats for the foreseeable future.

Practical considerations aside, I also worry that we'd get too competitive, or that people would feel badly if they weren't getting as much traffic as they'd like. While it might help overall traffic if everyone was out pimping their words, it might hurt esprit de corp and be a bad thing in the long run. Thoughts?

Comment by colleen, 12 months ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:52:47 +0000

Seconded, I would love to see traffic stats. Mostly because I am an egomaniac. :D

Comment by kad, 12 months ago

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:29:55 +0000

the rutgers university newspaper is the daily targum.

Comment by uselessness, 12 months ago

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:41:59 +0000

Additionally, the newspaper in my hometown of Venice, Florida, is the Venice Gondolier. :-)

Comment by uselessness, 12 months ago

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:40:55 +0000

Agreed! It's my first time seeing this. John, are you saying you have traffic stats for Wordie lists? Might be interesting to see a ranking or something...

Comment by John, 12 months ago

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:32:02 +0000

What a fantastic list. And it's consistently one of the most-trafficked on Wordie.