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News & ArtsWednesday, March 17, 2010
Media SeattlePI.com Is Turning One
Posted by Eli Sanders on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM
- March 16, 2009: A copy editor works on the last print P-I.
I took this picture almost exactly one year ago, as the old Seattle Post-Intelligencer floated off into oblivion and the new SeattlePI.com was born.
Tomorrow night the new, online-only P-I will be celebrating its one-year-old self at the Crocodile with $1 beers and cupcakes and music by The Lights. How long can the actual lights stay on at Hearst's online-only experiment? It's not making money yet, but Poynter reports that it's getting around 4 million unique visitors a month, and quotes Pat Balles, SeattlePI.com's general manager, as saying, "We are optimistic."
Last week I reported on what some ex-P-I staffers think of the new project. Think they'll let me into the party after all that?
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Eli:
If you are really preoccupied about getting into parties, and penning me-centered accounts of being there, you'll find a journalistic home at Publicola.
Eli:
If you are really preoccupied about getting into parties, and penning me-centered accounts of being there, you'll find a journalistic home at Publicola.
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I hate to burst the bubble, but I'm not sure how much of a party it's going to be. I stuck with the PI - it was a respectable paper for years - and have diligently followed its evolution from big city daily paper to sad, desperate hit magnet.
SeattlePI.com was my web home page for a few years too, at least since Google's been up in the toolbar. But at some point, I got sick of LOLCats headlines and the lack of complex and interesting news analysis.
About three months ago, and perhaps much too late, I switched my home page to SLOG. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who went through this gradual transition "away from print."
SeattlePI.com was my web home page for a few years too, at least since Google's been up in the toolbar. But at some point, I got sick of LOLCats headlines and the lack of complex and interesting news analysis.
About three months ago, and perhaps much too late, I switched my home page to SLOG. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who went through this gradual transition "away from print."
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@Pretty much, yeah. The PI is sliding in their needed quest for hits, and the Times is a joke most days with their Blethen-fueled poor-man's Fox routine.
I just keep Slog & Publicola feeds at the top of my Google home page.
I just keep Slog & Publicola feeds at the top of my Google home page.
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