widgety widgetness
it seems like everyone is getting in on the widget game.
ESPN is creating news feed widgets for all their sports journalists. I’m not really sure how I feel about this one since all it does is show the headlines and drive people to ESPN’s site. good for ESPN. Not so much for the person who features the widget. The podcasts are cool because they can be played right in the widget, so people don’t have to leave your site.
If anyone from ESPN reads this, I submitted a question a few weeks ago that no one responded to. How come site visitors can comment on articles written by some journalists, but not others. For the journalists whose articles people can comment on, there are often hundreds of comments within a day of the post.
But, as an example, you can never comment on Bill Simmons articles. I actually wanted to write a response to a tennis story he did where I felt A. he was wrong and B. he mailed it in (shit, I have to write a story by tomorrow).
Who makes these decisions on which journalists can receive comments and which can’t. Did Bill Simmons make that choice, the editors, someone else??
Peter Cervieri is co-founder of and Director of Business Development for ScribeMedia.Org. His fetish is collecting business cards.
Peter,
I think the decision has something to do with the type of comments that were being posted. The Deadspin readers descended upon Simmons and took over the comments section I believe.
thanks rick,
i actually sent an email to ESPN and never heard back