Comments on: Home page tweaked at mySA.com https://johntedesco.net/blog/2009/09/24/home-page-tweaked-at-mysa-com/ Investigative Journalist in Houston, Texas Fri, 13 May 2022 19:41:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Tedesco https://johntedesco.net/blog/2009/09/24/home-page-tweaked-at-mysa-com/#comment-38582 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:19:39 +0000 http://johntedesco.net/blog/?p=3103#comment-38582 In reply to Charlotte-Anne Lucas.

Hi Charlotte-Anne. I think we’re caught in a time warp. This post was published in 2009, too.

]]> By: Charlotte-Anne Lucas https://johntedesco.net/blog/2009/09/24/home-page-tweaked-at-mysa-com/#comment-37047 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:53:46 +0000 http://johntedesco.net/blog/?p=3103#comment-37047 Minor nit to pick – I wrote that piece in 2009, so it wasn’t recent ;-)
As a news consumer and web-only journalist since last century, I’m always glad to see a news organization invest in improving the online user experience by doing things like redesigning the home page.
The point of my article was not nostalgia. When the mothership subsumed MySA, it discarded many of the innovative things we’d done and the lessons we learned.
I should amend my article to point out that the Express-News online operation learned that paywalls didn’t work back in 1997, something they seem to have forgotten all over again.
My last line summed it up:
“Those who don’t pause to learn from the successes we had as we failed forward, face a longer journey.”

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