Daily Cal Posted Online
Dear Daily Cal,
People would actually like to read your paper. It is very easy to post it online. It took me ten minutes, to create the photographs below. You may click on them to view the pages. (Ff they were downsized to fit in your browser, please click on the image and they should expand to full size). You also should be able to click on the photo with your right mouse button and save the image on your computer. I will not be doing this for your Monday issue. If you don’t have your website fixed by then, please consider posting full page pictures or scans, like I have done.
I will be taking down this post in a couple of days. The point of this is not for me to provide the Daily Cal issues on CalStuff, but for me to show how to do it, so that you can do it yourself. You can host the images for free on webfiles, if you would like, if your servers are still unavailable. I would be happy to explain to you how to do this, and help you in anyway.
thanks,
andy
P.S. If you would like me to take these down, please let me know.
Thursday June 22nd, 2006 Daily Cal
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sure, andy, thats all well and good but you cant use jpegs as toilet paper.
Comment by mano — June 23, 2006 @ 10:27 pm
Also: The Daily Cal could easily create a Blogspot account and post the articles online within minutes.
Comment by Joe. E — June 24, 2006 @ 9:28 am
Joe: Yeah, I was considering the blogger route and doing something like this: http://berkeleysnewspaperonline.blogspot.com/2006/06/executive-candidates-appeal.html
It certainly looks much nicer that way, the problem was just that because I don’t have article text, I was converting pictures of the articles into PDF’s and that took a while. Not to mention, a post for each article was also more time consuming. To put up each article in that format would probably have taken around an hour or two, and I didn’t feel like putting in that much time last night. The Daily Cal actually having the text of the articles, could do something much nicer than posting photos of the pages, and you’re right, posting the article text in blogger would be trivially easy for them.
Comment by Andy R. — June 24, 2006 @ 11:03 am
Does anyone know what happened to the daily cal website?
Is it true that it was hacked?
Comment by ally — June 24, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
That’s what the Daily Cal reported.
Comment by Beetle — June 24, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
you probably can’t post it as a blog, as they probably make most of their money off of ad revenue, so removing the ads might make advertisers angry. Also, you probably should post a counter of how many people hit the page, as the daily cal probably would find that useful (giving you more leverage if they don’t like when you post the images).
Comment by nuance — June 24, 2006 @ 2:51 pm
The Daily Cal website did not display the same ads as were in the print edition, if I recall correctly. Online advertising and paper advertising seemed to be handled differently.
Comment by Beetle — June 24, 2006 @ 3:26 pm
Embattled UCSC chancellor dies in apparent suicide:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/24/MNGM1JK1MI15.DTL
Comment by commodore anonymous — June 24, 2006 @ 6:56 pm
beetle: right, but I think where the material is sourced from is what matters. So, even if it’s the same content, they own the content, and choose to release it in different forms. So you grab the newspaper copy, and you’re grabbing the newspaper content.
This (the better distribution of the dc) sounds like a good idea - dc’s website is so crappy (they’re redesign was horrific - all they did was wrap a bunch of buzzy user-driven crap onto a bad interface. they really need to redesign it from the ground up).
Comment by nuance — June 24, 2006 @ 8:08 pm