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Here's the ending cutscene for that chain/zone
Uldum was Deathwing telling Al'Akir to get the catpeople to break the locks on the Titan's "Ultimate Weapon of Earthly Destruction" to speed up his plans of Twilight. That storyline became a lot more clear when Brann Bronzebeard came into the picture. Brann cuts the wires on the Re-origination device at the end of this quest chain.
Here's the ending cutscene for that chain/zone
An introduction into WarTanking (no longer updated as I've retired from WoW - the concepts will still be mostly accurate but the numbers no longer will be.) - http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.p...101-The-Primer
@Outback - the bigger point is what did that have to do with anything else? Uldum could be removed and there's nothing really lost. Deepholm was his resting place and dealt with the maelstorm. Twilight and Mt. Hyjal are home to his minions. Uldum is just there. There's a story line, but it seemed completely disjointed from the rest of the zones' connection.
An introduction into WarTanking (no longer updated as I've retired from WoW - the concepts will still be mostly accurate but the numbers no longer will be.) - http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.p...101-The-Primer
I'll agree that nothing would be lost from the overall story arch, it probably would have felt better if Deathwing had actually shown up to delegate some of the responsibility, in person. It did feel comical up until the point where Brann shows up and says "oh by the way, Deathwing can kill us all by pressing this button over here. We should probably do something about that, eh?"
Our pool is pretty balanced and consists of
rogue druid mage deathknight (4)
priest priest paladin paladin warlock (5)
hunter warrior warrior shaman (4)
And we can only sell one leg token to the vendor for weeks (5 gold, yay...), everything else is still needed by one class or another for mainspecc. For 10m it would be decent if they could release one token for all (thus we're guaranteed to get equipped in 13 weeks) and do something against d/e loot altogether. After your first set of daggers and mail/leather stuff there's regulary nobody else who even could take it for offspecc, have the disenchanted heroic loot equals to upgrade tokens 'Crystallized Firestone' (instead of maelstroems you can farm all night long in zul randoms) and everybody would be happy, wouldn't we? We had three upgrade token drops in about 60 heroic bosskills and they were all spent on weapons, nobody got the chance to upgrade bracer/ring/necklace/belt or even think about using them for relic/ranged slot.
I hope so - 8 bosses isn't a lot unless they go with larger than normal loot tables.
Set bonuses aren't make or break, but they are guaranteed upgrades with VP, just with a set timeline. I know I'll get upgrades through VP. With drops, the token or off-set has to drop and then in our case, 25m DKP system, you have to have the top bid as well. It's not a big deal for most - but most don't swap DPS/Tank regularly like I do. I always feel half-assed when it comes to gear. It's not make or break like you were saying, but it'd be nice to get some major upgrades instead of minor non-key upgrades all the time. lol
I do like the idea of de-ing heroic loot for firestone equivalents - that makes some sense. I could see potential for drama, but everything has that potential, and it really seems like a pretty decent idea.
An introduction into WarTanking (no longer updated as I've retired from WoW - the concepts will still be mostly accurate but the numbers no longer will be.) - http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.p...101-The-Primer
Our group consists of:
Rogue, mage, druid, druid, DK (5)
Priest, paladin, paladin (3)
Hunter, shaman (2)
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Not sure how I feel about ALL gear coming from tokens though. It's entirely possible that I'd be sitting on two offset leg pieces (for example) before one of the rogue/mage/dk/druid group gets one at all...much less offset ones. As opposed to spending valor points on it, which means we all basically get our 3 pieces at the same pace, assuming it's worth doing (meaning that tier pieces are you best way to spend points).
I do like the idea that you could DE or sell, if tacking it on to enchanting feels a bit wonky (which it does to me), rot loot for Crystallized-Firestone-equivalents...at least for heroic loot. It doesn't even have to be 1:1...if you can just sell it for "Firestone Shard" and it takes 3 or 4 or 10 or whatever shards and then you can buy a "Crystallized Firestone" which you can THEN use to buy a generic upgrade, that's fine too.
An extension of that idea would be ... well I'm not sure this is a GOOD idea, but just dropping "leg token" instead of "prot leg token", so that EVERYONE who killed the boss can use the token. Of course, then the question becomes where do you STOP doing that? Helm and shoulders again? Or does that paradigm carry over to helm and shoulder too? If not, why not?
I honestly don't understand the idea of "conq, vanq and prot token" as opposed to just a single "tier <armor part> token", so I might not be the best to discuss it. I mean, I guess if you're in a huge raid it's not a big deal, but if our hunter went .... warlock or spriest or mage and I switched from shaman to rogue or ret or feral dps, it'd be a zero prot mark raid...and not much different from what we are now, just a different ranged dps and a different melee dps.
Meh. I can see the argument, sort of, for random loot being interesting (WILL IT DROP THIS WEEK!?), but having rot tier tokens immediately seems like a really sub-optimal situation, and not even unreasonable to have happen in 10 mans, especially.
Well if LFR doesn't have a lock out then we'll basically be farming LFR when the normal mode progression raids aren't happening until we get all the upgrades we can out of there. I'm seeing this as causing very fast burnout.
Still hoping for a tanking legendary that each style of tank can choose their weapon between a Str 1H, str 2H and a polearm with dodge procs for each so dps will be less likely to use them.
The deathwing raid itself seems awesome.
I'm also concerned with the whole "If its it not fun then ditch it" idea. What happens when active mitigation is implemented and tanks start dying because they can't keep up a rotation? That probably won't be perceived as "fun" by all. I'm just glad to be in a 10 man guild where my DPS is somewhat relevant, because being relegated to a damage soaker for 2 tiers isn't my idea of "fun".
Wonderful interview Lore! You asked some great questions, and Ghostcrawler was very straightforward with his answers. Love it.
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Also a single class legendary weapon is a terrible idea, and yes we have seen single class legendaries, Thori'dal the Stars Fury says hi. Sorry but I think single class legendaries are a huge waste of time, especially considering how less then stellar rogues are performing in Firelands, like most other melee classes. Glad I quit this game, there is so much wrong with 4.3 that it's not even worth playing. Having to be a raider for epic gems is retarded, having a Raid Finder is stupid, a single class legendary is terrible design considering how much work will go into making a weapon for one player in a 10 man guild or maybe even none. Such a waste of creating a legendary it's not funny.
All the rogues who used it say hi back.Also a single class legendary weapon is a terrible idea, and yes we have seen single class legendaries, Thori'dal the Stars Fury says hi.
Yet you're opposed to increasing melee DPS.Sorry but I think single class legendaries are a huge waste of time, especially considering how less then stellar rogues are performing in Firelands, like most other melee classes.
1. Epic gems from raids worked perfectly fine in TBC, this is a slightly more elegant implementation of how things were then.Glad I quit this game, there is so much wrong with 4.3 that it's not even worth playing. Having to be a raider for epic gems is retarded, having a Raid Finder is stupid, a single class legendary is terrible design considering how much work will go into making a weapon for one player in a 10 man guild or maybe even none. Such a waste of creating a legendary it's not funny.
2. The raid finder will actually be extremely successful if implemented properly (which it seems like they are). Also another solution to #1.
3. A ton of work goes into making a weapon for one player regardless of how many classes can equip it. There are issues with the single class legendary, but none of them are what you're complaining about.
I find melee getting buffed hilarious since fury and frost had been nerfed earlier this expac for being overpowered.
The style in which the last raid is to be implemented sounds beautiful, and is my favorite aspect of this expac by far. I love how all the new zones are an interactive (albeit linear) adventure story. It gave the new zones such an epic feel. To do that for an entire raid is exciting to say the least. With the creativity that has gone into the mechanics in the boss fights thus far, i'm eager to see what further ideas get sprung upon us.
The only issue i have with whats going on right now is the timing of the content nerf and the extent of the content nerf. Too soon, and too much. Maybe its perfect for the number of bosses, and maybe my own personal summertime raid blues add a personal bias (damn you vacations, and softball leagues, and dirtbike races, and fishing trips, and 5ks, and disc golf, and beer garden keg tappings, and warrior dash, and...). The 20% nerf to t11 made those places waaaay too easy. If HM are getting that nerf now as well-- well, i just don't want HM kills that easily this soon.
The actually blue post stated there would be 'hotfixes over the coming weeks'. I don't think the nerfs are coming all at once but they haven't explicitly stated what they have planned. We'll find out tomorrow.
In the Eurogamer interview TC was pretty specific that gems would not be dropping in LFR mode.Originally Posted by Lore
As for the single class legendary, I have no real issues with it. A ten man raid making decent progress in DS will not have them ready by the time they come up against Deathwing heroic (a 25 man raid probably won't either), and a 25 man raid won't get more than two completed before 5.0 either, as they aren't going to go with the parallel progress model this time after what happened with Dragonwrath. The knives will end up being a trophy legendary just like Thori'dal was in TBC.Originally Posted by Eurogamer Interview
First of all grats on the interview. It's great seeing you elbowing with Gc. Bet it was a blast too. Not to mention it was amazing getting real gamer questions ask and answered and not the usual black and white blah blah of q & a. I hope more of these for you in the future.
it amazes me how so many people that have quit the game still read interviews and watch videos. and for what? to complain about it? please go back to farmville and leave the rest of us who still enjoy playing the game alone. no one wants to listen to your rant.
"Ten Ton Hammer: So what is Deathwing's loot table going to be like? Is he the source of the Tier 13 gear?
Greg: One of the different things about the rewards this time around is all of the tier sets are in the raid itself. Players won't be able to use Valor Points to buy stuff this time around, they actually need to defeat the raid bosses. That gear will drop on the first couple of bosses and, in the grand tradition of Warcraft bosses, Deathwing only drops weapons and these weapons are slightly more powerful than the rest of the raid tier in terms of item level.
Players also have a chance to get some Epic gems out of the raid tier so they'll be able to have some purple gems to replace the gems in their current gear."

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Group 1 No 1: Prelude
Group 1 No 2: Carol
Group 1 No 3: Christmas Dance
Group 2 No 1: Ballad
Group 2 No 2: Moto perpetuo
Group 3 No 1: Musette
Group 3 No 2: Polka mélancolique
Group 3 No 3: Galop
The chief characteristic of Vaughan Williams's Suite is the varied colour and lightness of the orchestration. The first movement is a Prelude in C major, the arpeggiated opening solo viola line surely a tribute to Bach (the opening C major Prelude of the '48'). It expands with a typical soaring lyrical treatment. A counter-melody first heard on the tutti violas leads to a pastoral middle section characterized by the opposition of the soloist in 9/8 and the orchestral accompaniment in 3/4. The arpeggiated music returns with a brief reminiscence of the pastoral theme serving as coda.
The simple carol tune of the second movement is reminiscent of both the 'Land of our birth' tune from Vaughan Williams's A Song of Thanksgiving of 1945 and the Woodcutter's song from The Pilgrim's Progress. The last movement of Group 1 is the robust 'Christmas Dance', alternating 3/4 and 6/8. The beefy chordal treatment of the soloist and the stamping rhythms make clear this is a rural celebration, the viola taking the place of the village fiddler.
The second Group consists of only two numbers. We return to the opening tonality of C major for the 'Ballad', which is followed by a headlong 'Moto perpetuo' in C minor. The 'Ballad' begins in quiet mystery, with a long-spanning tune accompanied by muted strings. The intense feeling is maintained until the second half of the piece, a dancing 6/8 Allegro non troppo. The 'Moto perpetuo' has a galumphing country dance feel to it, the viola's register, especially when double stopping, having a roughness that is emphasized by the changes from double to triple time. The soloist has no rest from the insistent semiquavers, and the tempo is too fast for an actual dance, the whole virtuosic invention being remarkably invigorating.
In the third Group we find a string of dance tunes. After the hurly-burly of the 'Moto perpetuo', the singing 'Musette' is a lullaby, the soloist now muted and accompanied by harp and muted lower strings, with a contrasted middle section in G major. There follows a 'Polka mélancolique' with a syncopated middle section. Perhaps Vaughan Williams is having his little joke here for the music is neither particularly melancholy nor distinctively a polka. It is rounded by a closing section in which, as if preparing for the finale, the viola plays a succession of short cadenzas. The Allegro molto of the 'Galop' finds Vaughan Williams in typical scherzando mood.
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WASHINGTON - The recent death of a Prince George's County police officer who was ejected from his cruiser was the final straw.
The department says a "culture change" is needed to ensure driving safety, with weighty discipline for officers who refuse to buckle up.
Assistant Police Chief Kevin Davis says federal studies show only 51 percent of police officers wear seat belts.
"We want to model good behavior that we expect from motorists. If police aren't wearing their seat belts, how in good conscience can we ensure motorists wear their seat belts," Davis says.
Officer Adrian Morris died of head injuries after being thrown from his cruiser in a high speed chase on Interstate 95 in Beltsville.
Davis says Morris usually was a seat belt wearer.
"He got excited, he jumped into his car, he didn't buckle up and tragedy followed," says Davis.
Davis says national statistics show more officers are killed annually behind the wheel than are killed by criminals.
"We tend to only focus on those felonious line of duty deaths, but the elephant in the middle of the living room is cops driving too fast, driving without their seatbelts, and driving while distracted," said Davis.
Davis says the Prince George's County Police Department will focus daily on improving officer safety behind the wheel, and will seek to set an example for other departments.
Davis rejects the reasons officers have traditionally offered for why they didn't use safety belts.
"They claim gun belt entanglement, they assert the need to get out of their police car quickly, and then there's the fear of a rogue assassin."
"It doesn't take but a fraction of a split-second to unbuckle and then engage in police work," says Davis.
Davis believes part of the culture change requires punishment for officers who don't buckle up.
"The discipline for not wearing a seat belt has to be more than just a counseling session -- there has to be some teeth in it," says Davis.
A Metropolitan Police Deaofficer, Paul Dittmo, died in 2010, while not wearing a seat belt.
A Fairfax County police officer survived a head-on crash this past August. He credits his seat belt with saving his life.
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Unless you're a serious soccer fan or your child really loves Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, you're probably wondering what's the point of all these 3D products for the home? It seems like a new 3D movie is hitting your local Cineplex every week, but your local cable provider still hasn't added any 3D channels to the 700 you're receiving.
The manufacturers seem to be taking a Field of Dreams "if you build it, they will come" approach to 3D home entertainment. The televisions, and even some projectors, are arriving swiftly with the requisite eyewear, as well as Blu-ray players and A/V receivers that support the format. Yet there are only a handful of viewing choices—not including the many PC games developed to be 3D-ready—available through traditional manners.
DirecTV Leading the Charge
"Everyone is talking about some form of 3D, and it's all driven by the interest of consumers," noted Panasonic CTO Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, on the eve of DirecTV's July 1 launch of its n3D channel powered by Panasonic. "As I talk to networks and broadcasters, at least a dozen networks are very interested, in my personal opinion."
The n3D debut coincided with two more DirecTV 3D offerings—DirecTV Cinema and DirecTV on Demand, both of which promised movie selections. But simply because the channels exist doesn't mean there's content to fill them. On the day of this article's writing for the September print edition of Electronic House, DirecTV's listings for n3D and Cinema showed "n3D Previews" and "IMAX: NASCAR 3D," respectively—looped all day.
Tsuyuzaki predicted the rollout of 3D programming to work its way from satellite to more cable channels and finally to the major broadcast networks, with similar naming to that of high-definition alternates, like NBC 3D or TNT 3D. The n3D channel arrived a little less than a month after ESPN became the first to bestow 3D programming upon us, as its ESPN 3D channel launched in conjunction with the opening of the 2010 World Cup. And similar to the DirecTV/Panasonic partnership, Discovery announced earlier this year that it was teaming with IMAX and Sony to start a 3D network, but not until 2011.
"The new 3D network will feature high-quality premium content from genres that are most appealing in 3D, including natural history, space, exploration, adventure, engineering, science and technology, motion pictures and children's programming from Discovery, Sony Pictures Entertainment, IMAX and other third-party providers," the company said.
Mixed Reviews
That's in line with the main categories that are earning the bulk of 3D focus for the home, especially sports and children's programming. ESPN broadcasted the aforementioned World Cup, baseball's All-Star Home Run Derby and the X Games in 3D during the summer, and its college football coverage in the format begins this month. During the summer, Verizon's FiOS service aired a New York Yankees-Seattle Mariners game on the YES Network in 3D; n3D aired the MLB All-Star Game; and TNT delivered NASCAR (live, not the IMAX movie).
Reviews have been mixed, at best—from very good enhancement, like when the 3D telecast clearly topped 2D in showing a hard-to-see soccer goal, to poor, like noticeable artifacts appearing on the 3D version of the same soccer match.
The broadcasts also featured more 3D content that's to be expected—commercials! ESPN produced one of its popular "This Is SportsCenter" spots for the format, and 3D gave Sony another reason to cast Peyton Manning and Justin Timberlake for more funny business.
Blu-ray Movies on Tap
Still, the content most are clamoring for are 3D Blu-rays of those blockbuster movies they saw in theaters. The first Blu-ray release of Avatar in April did not include a 3D version; neither did Alice in Wonderland.
In terms of native 3D releases (The Polar Express, for example, was released with included old-school red/blue glasses), Monsters vs. Aliens, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and IMAX's Under the Sea and Grand Canyon Adventure were available at press time. And some were exclusive to manufacturers (like Monsters vs. Aliens with Samsung, for instance) as part of a 3D TV purchase bundle. The Shrek series, A Christmas Carol and Avatar are on tap for later this year, and Cloudy included sneak peeks at Open Season and Monster House (now out) on 3D Blu-ray.
The Road to Adoption
Many are comparing this early adoption period with the beginnings of HDTV—a few channels existed, including some satellite-only offerings, with names such as ESPN, Discovery and DirecTV again leading the way. But is the adoption of 3D really going to be like HDTV? You didn't need 20/20 vision to notice the quantum leap from standard- to high-definition, on just about any program or movie.
As much as Hollywood studios, major networks and cable stations want to encourage 3D viewing, consumers and their deep pockets will be the ones who can answer whether or not 3D is as substantial an improvement. Do we need 3D to enjoy House or even House Hunters? Oh, and a decade removed since high-def has been available, my cable provider is still adding HD channels that have existed on other cable and satellite services for years. Hmmm.Follow Electronic House on Facebook and Twitter.
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WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Vince Gray says new transportation strategies will need to be explored to accommodate the area's growing population.
The Washington, D.C. metro area has again topped the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's annual report on the worst congestion in the nation. Drivers in the nation's capital need almost three hours for a commute that should take 30 minutes without traffic.
"I don't think you fix it by having more cars. You need a variety of ways to get people around," Gray said Saturday. "Hopefully we're at the point where we're getting people to think about changing their behavior."
He says all options are on the table, including a congestion tax.
"It's a possibility. I wouldn't rule it out," Gray says. "I haven't considered it yet. I know they do that in London where you can't go into certain areas of the city with a car without paying. But I don't think we're at that point yet."
Another possibility to ease congestion is increasing telework options.
"Telework, whether it's a four-day workweek or not, is certainly an important consideration," he says.
Gray says one of the long term goals of his Sustainable D.C. plan is to have 75 percent of trips be car-free by 2032.
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Memphis ranks among worst U.S. cities for allergy sufferers
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Things aren't looking good for people with allergies in Tennessee. Not only is the pollen apocalypse on its way, three of the state's major cities made the Asthma and Allergy Foundation's annual list of the 10 worst places for spring allergy sufferers.
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Everyone in the United States can expect their allergies to be worse this year, thanks to an unusually wet winter, the foundation says.
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5. Louisville, Ky.
6. Wichita, Kansas
7. Dayton, Ohio
8. Memphis
9. Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Residents in Springfield, Mass.; Buffalo, N.Y.; and Grand Rapids, Mich., may face more severe cases than they have in years past. These cities all jumped at least 10 spots up on the list from the spring of 2012.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation also releases a list every year of the worst cities for fall allergy sufferers. The spring allergy capitals are based on tree pollen counts, while the fall cities are ranked on ragweed pollen counts from September through November of the previous years. Many of the cities on the fall list are on the spring list, but there are a few differences.
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FastCo.Labs is experimenting with what it calls "slow liveblogging," an approach to writing that takes a cue from Wikipedia. Stories start as "stubs" and are gradually lengthened over time. What they found was that drawing out the life of a story by constantly updating it caused readers to stay on the site longer.
Author Chris Dannen conflates quality with length, which is problematic, but the traffic metrics are nonetheless interesting, as is the discussion of how to build a more adaptable CMS.
First Look Media announced today that Racket, the political satire magazine originally headed by Matt Taibbi, is shutting down.
The announcement follows weeks of seeming instability at the company. New York Magazine's Andrew Rice broke the news last month that Taibbi, who had been brought on to run the magazine, would be leaving the project. The team at First Look's The Intercept followed up with a detailed explanation of the management and culture clashes that led up to his departure. Shortly thereafter, Glenn Greenwald announced that editor-in-chief John Cook was leaving The Intercept and returning to Gawker Media.
Since Matt Taibbi's departure, we've been working with the team he hired to consider various options for launching a project without him. After multiple explorations, we've decided not to pursue the project. Unfortunately, this means that the team Matt hired will be let go.
In the wake of Taibbi's departure, the remaining staff of Racket, presumably under the leadership of Racket executive editor Alex Pareene launched a new project that fit in well with what was to have been the magazine's satirical tone and penchant for pranks. RacketTeen, a somewhat inscrutable Tumblr account, poked fun at everything from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to media insiders to parents.
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— Racket Teen (@RacketTeen) November 25, 2014
The announcement, which leaves the entire staff of Racket without jobs, was met with consternation and general upset by those in the media who had hoped RacketTeen was the sign of more cutting-edge commentary to come. Some also expressed concerns for how the staff had been treated by First Look.
I miss Racket Teen
— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 25, 2014
I want Pierre Omidyar to pay reparations for all the @mtaibbi @pareene @elspethreeve @edithzimmerman stories we didn't get to read in 2014.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 25, 2014
Laid-off Racket staff don't even get names. http://t.co/xFFfDzO2L2
— Scott Klein (@kleinmatic) November 25, 2014
What's next for the staff of Racket, and for First Look, remains to be seen.
Could the @Awl network fold in @RacketTeen? I don't even care if you do Racket
— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) November 25, 2014
Fusion is just pulling up the party bus to the First Look offices now
— Bill Wasik (@billwasik) November 25, 2014
Maybe on Thanksgiving Pierre will pardon one member of @RacketTeen
— Natasha VC (@natashavc) November 25, 2014
I reached out to Racket staff members for comment, but so far haven't heard anything back.
thank you everyone who is gchatting me rn but the entire @RacketTeen staff has to go get drunk now
— Elle Reeve (@elspethreeve) November 25, 2014
Amid the wry jokes, though, it's important to remember that Pierre Omidyar, First Look's founder, promised $250 million to the project last year. The organization is often cited on the list of new media projects that are cause for optimism about the state of the industry. With plenty of funds and talent on hand, there's considerable confusion over what is causing First Look to falter.
The people at the Racket are some of the most talented people in media. To not figure out how to make it work is totally baffling.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 25, 2014
When I'm asked about the future of news, I always say I'm optimistic, at least on net. But that doesn't mean that there won't be holes, and the holes I worry about most are at the local level. The pre-Internet journalism model was highly localized because distribution was highly localized; the web changes that dramatically.
That's the context for this interesting new paper from Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall, and James Snyder, Jr., looking at corruption in Mexico and how it gets reported — and how that that reporting impacts elections (emphasis mine):
We estimate the effect of local media outlets on political accountability in Mexico, focusing on malfeasance by municipal mayors…In particular, we compare neighboring precincts on the boundaries of media stations' coverage areas to isolate the effects of an additional media station.
We find that voters punish the party of malfeasant mayors, but only in electoral precincts covered by local media stations (which emit from within the precinct's municipality). An additional local radio or television station reduces the vote share of an incumbent political party revealed to be corrupt by 1 percentage point, and reduces the vote share of an incumbent political party revealed to have diverted funds to projects not benefiting the poor by around 2 percentage points.
We also show that these electoral sanctions persist: at the next election, the vote share of the current incumbent's party continues to be reduced by a similar magnitude…However, we find no effect of media stations based in other municipalities.
In the world of media, longer content is heralded as higher quality. A six-minute piece is more prestigious than a minute-twenty package. Full-length features trump shorts. Shows beat webisodes. Two-thousand words are better than two hundred. There are lots of reasons for the industry bias toward longer content. Legacy platforms and business models. Prominence and awards. Creative freedom and journalistic context. Ask just about anyone in the content business, and they prefer longer work.
That doesn't mean there's not a market for longer-form content on mobile. I read books and watch movies on my iPhone while flying back and forth from NYC. Tablet users, especially in evening and nighttime hours, read longer-form stories and binge on Netflix. But on average across the mobile universe, shorter content is consumed more. It's also the gateway to longer forms of content: social apps act as recommendation engines for your attention. That's how Facebook's app became the "home page" of mobile, accounting for more time spent than all mobile browsers combined.
Part of the problem is the industry's fixation on "time spent" as an engagement metric. I remember a Poynter study a couple years ago that discovered the average "bail out" point on a tablet is 78.3 seconds of reading. The recommendation? Write the story in such a way that gets users to keep reading. The obvious solution: write a shorter story.
It's often better to maximize "time saved" rather than time spent, especially on a per session basis. Imagine, for example, that you can get the nugget of a 2-minute video in a 24-second clip, or 80% of the value in 20% of the time. For most mobile users, that's more delightful than watching the full 2 minutes. The more delighted the users, the more frequently they'll return, which all adds up to a lot of time spent/user at the end of the month.
CFO magazine has an interview with Victoria Harker, the chief financial officer of Gannett, which is one of a number of news companies in various stages of splitting off its print properties (newspapers, mostly) from its broadcast and digital ones. The positive spin is that it'll let each type of company pursue the best approach without strategy tax; the negative spin is that it's sending print off onto an ice floe where its continued decline will no longer infect the other side of the business. This question would seem to position Gannett as a candidate for the newspaper industry rollup (or mop-up) many have been anticipating (emphasis mine):
Q: Some people praise Gannett because it isn't burdening the newspaper spin-off with debt, as other media companies have done. Others criticize Gannett for not including, say, Cars.com in the spin-off to provide more advertising revenue. How do you respond to these views?
A: Relative to the debt, we felt very strongly that the publishing segment — which has its own digital properties, by the way — needed to have the kind of capital structure that will enable them to be a consolidator in the industry, should that be the strategic decision they make. They have produced a very efficient model for running the newsroom of today and tomorrow. So we didn't want to saddle them with a lot of debt. We wanted to enable a good revenue stream, a good cost structure, and good cash production, so they can do the kinds of things they need to do to create longevity within that business.
Relative to Cars.com, we will have affiliation agreements with the publishing business for five years after the deal closes. In our way of thinking it's the best of both worlds, in that Cars.com will live in the broadcast and digital company, where it will have the right type of capital structure and investment, while the publishing side will continue to be able to leverage that relationship.
You know, we spent a lot of time with investors during the last 10 days, and a number of them asked how they can become an investor on both sides of the house once we spin. So it's not that everybody wants to go into growth and be in broadcast and digital. We have a number of investors saying, "We're very interested in publishing, this is an interesting story for the value side of our investment house." And it's a dividend-producing entity, which is very attractive to them.
Getting external capital for that sort of move will likely only get tougher, so flexibility on the balance sheet is important.
Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web's most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single day. Want to see what The Guardian's homepage looked like Tuesday night? Here you go. Want to see how that Ebola patient first appeared on DallasNews.com in September? Try the small item here. It's a valuable service, particularly for future researchers who will want to study how stories moved through new media. (For print media, we have physical archives; for digital news, work even a few years old has an alarming tendency to disappear.)
It's possible for me to find a century-old newspaper, yet work I did 8-10 years ago on the web is gone.
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) November 13, 2014
Anyway, Ben is back with a new tool called StoryTracker, "a set of open source tools for archiving and analyzing news homepages," backed in part by the Reynolds Journalism Institute at Mizzou.
It offers a menu of options, documented here, for creating an orderly archive of HTML snapshots, extracting hyperlinks with a bonus set of metadata that captures each link's prominence on the page and visualizing a page's layout with animations that show changes over time.
The potential uses for researchers are obvious, but I could also imagine plenty of realtime uses. Tracking your own homepage over time, you could get good data on how the granular movement of stories there correlates with traffic over time. (To ask questions like: Is the top slot more or less valuable on weekends or overnight than during the day Monday to Friday?) You could track your competition's homepages to get hard data on what stories they're pushing hardest. And unlike the base PastPages, which saves screenshots of homepages, StoryTracker gets at the HTML to determine what stories are where. It's all open source, so have at it. (Here's a sample analysis to see what sources the Drudge Report links to most.)
Ben presented StoryTracker at a conference at RJI earlier this week; here's the video and his slide deck.
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|Here's some remarkable new data on the power of chat apps like WhatsApp for sharing news stories
At least in certain contexts, WhatsApp is a truly major traffic driver — bigger even than Facebook. Should there be a WhatsApp button on your news site?
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Most items made of Cobalt, Mythril, Adamantite, or their counterparts are naturally Tier 4.
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- 1/2 cup whole ripe olives, quartered
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