SMH: Not so clever with the counting
It seems that as well as firing all their journalists, SMH have forgotten how to do math.
Well done!
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It seems that as well as firing all their journalists, SMH have forgotten how to do math.
Well done!
I’m always amused by SMH’s gung-ho approach to their website, because its not like people actually *read* things there, right?
I’ve emailed them a few times asking about typos, grammatical errors and downright mistakes, to the response:
“Given the fast paced nature of online media it is nearly impossible to guarantee an error free website”
Now whilst this may be true, ‘error free’ is remarkably different to ‘a typo in every other sentence’. Most other people seem to get it right as well.
Hello, by the way.
Hi Grant
Gaurantees are sometimes hard to achieve 
“nearly impoessible to guarantee an error free website” is also different to “we don’t bother correcting errors even when they’re pointed out to us”.
btw, gn.net.au stipulates that it’s default RSS feed is /rss.xml, but that gives a 404…
Ah – thanks for the heads up – it was missing a question mark!
http://gn.net.au/?rss.xml
Gn
I think that list has no bearing on reality at all. They probably hand pick the list to show more trashy, grabby titles in more places on the website.
Maybe they fired all the journalists who could do maths?
Mediawatch ran a great piece earlier this year about how traditional print news organisations in Australia are evolving to deal with the web.
Math? Isn’t it maths?
Americans say math, civilized people say maths. Really confused people don’t know what to say – look at mathsisfun.com, which has a page title of “Math is Fun”…
but of course you already know this, having consulted the font of all knowledge first.
You’ll find that mathsisfun.com and mathisfun.com are both the same site, hence the discrepancy.