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No News Archive

A local daily newspaper company I once offered an online solution finally had their site up. Without a bang. I didn’t get the contract. They have it made by some group affiliated with a local IT school.

I can’t believe it was done by a group. The interface was much too similar to another local daily’s site. It’s safe to assume they were both created by same group. In today’s internet when everything is suppose to be dynamic, the newspaper site is generated by hand. The extension will tell you that it is a PHP script but I bet you, it is for including other static files that regular html file cannot do.

Obviously, the people who created it have not logged on to the internet lately. Subscribe has a whole new meaning now. Everytime I see a subscribe link, RSS comes first to my mind. Newsletters are so five years ago. Even worse is that when they say subscribe they meant, subscribe to the dead tree version.

I may sound like I’m sour graping here. Well… I am. They could’ve been a proud owner of a nice Drupal powered site. Oh, well.

July 22, 2006 | Filed Under General 

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4 Responses to “No News Archive”

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    lurker Says:
    July 24th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    are you talking about theguardianiloilo.ph if so,
    try emailing them or their contributors, wala gid may ma sabat. try emailing other local news sites including philstar, you’ll definitely get a reply. try emailing Microsoft and complain about something, you’ll get a personalize response as well. try emailing the guardian iloilo. wala gid ya. hehe.

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    Kates Gasis Says:
    July 24th, 2006 at 5:01 pm

    Ows? How about if I have a scoop on something illegal being done in the gov’t? I bet I’ll get a quick response. Oh well, each one is entitled to his/her own selective responses.

    And yeah, it was them. I get my news from The News Today site and click on their ads at the same time.

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    Iloilo City Boy Says:
    August 6th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    Hey mga Ilonggo kamo di gali! I write a column for the Guardian and I will tell the publisher about this. I also am encountering difficulties accessing it sometimes.

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    Kates Gasis Says:
    August 6th, 2006 at 6:01 pm

    @Oliver a.k.a. Iloilo City Boy:

    Huo pre. I’m one of the regular reader of your post. I’m also blogging at MyIloilo.com.

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