[sustran] [World Streets] Frequency of publication (Reader views)

[Eric Britton (Paris, France)]

On the day that World Streets opened its doors, 2 March 2009, we asked
our new readers to take the time to share with us their views on what
they preferred in terms of frequency of “publication”. In addition to
private exchanges and conversation on this, we also opening up a small
poll and left it open for the first two weeks, during which time 43
readers took the trouble to share their views with us. What the poll
told us lined up quite closely with the emails and other exchanges.


More than half, as you can see here, advised that they would prefer a
weekly edition for consultation, while close to a third reported that
monthly would be just fine for them. Five of the respondees indicated
that they thought ad hoc and no fixed schedule will be the way to go,
while only 2 voted for World Streets as a daily.

Now we asked that question with several things in view. First, our
desire to avoid info overload, certainly the direct cause of losing
your audience on the net or pretty much anywhere. We had in fact the
idea of a daily/weekly in target from the beginning. i.e., something
that is sufficiently interesting each day that some if not all of our
readers might book mark and have a quick look with their morning
coffee. But at the same time, organized in such a way that the faithful
though busy reader could drop in at any point and have direct access to
the full last week of postings.

As to those asking for something monthly, our plan is to do something
along those lines, but we have yet to figure out how. Finally, as daily
users of the web we appreciate that stuff is happening in our sector in
various corners of the world all the time, some of it interesting and
to the point here, so we also wish to make Streets a resource readable
available at all times. Which is what you have here.

Our job is to make this interesting, relevant and efficient for you. We
are off to a pretty good start, but stay with us, more and better is
ahead.

The Editor

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Posted By Eric Britton (Paris, France) to World Streets at 4/09/2009
08:25:00 PM
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