Sporting News Today, an interesting experiment in a daily, on-line, subscriber-based sports news service, debuted Wednesday.
Here's an early take on it and a look at the first front page image from our friends at Awful Announcing.
I'll get around to writing about this soon in the paper.
Yo, Sporting News, send me a temporary account so I can check it out! Thanks.
(See how I did that? I've gone from e-mailing p.r. people instead of talking to them, to now asking for stuff on the blog without bothering with e-mail. I love how modern technology pretty much saves me from messy human interaction altogether.)
(UPDATE: Sure enough, Sporting News p.r. quickly responded to my request and I'm all set. New media is cool!)
(UPDATE: Evidently subscriptions are free. Hmm. I need to check this thing out.)
Comments (4)
I've read the first 2 days of it and like it, to a point. I'm giving it a chance since it is the Sporting News.
There is certain teams/sports I care about, and I can find that info in a million other places. And the amount of time it takes to read through the whole thing takes a while. And being the nice guy I am, I click on all their advertising links... just like I do here.
Since I dont have an office job where I need to waste a half hour a day I doubt I will be reading daily.
But I wish them the best of luck
Ummm... you don't need Sporting News to give you a temporary account. Just go to the Sporting News Today page, enter your name and email and you're in. Easy!
http://www.coverleaf.com/sportingnewstoday?eadid=h:sntoday:300x250
Oh. Never mind.
I get it and it's like reading the real Sporting News, or the old National (somewhat) on a daily basis. It's not like the other newspaper websites it's real newspaper pages on the web, ads and all.