The old notion that website visitors enter through the front door is fading away.

In other words, you enter from the top page, then go to each content, or something like that, but you access each content or article directly.

ITmedia News: Online news, in an era when readers decide which articles to read (1/2)
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0507/26/news054.html

Online news readers are increasingly taking control and getting the news they want à la carte from a variety of sources. These users rarely rely solely on the views of a single news agency for the top stories of the day.

Rather than saying that I only read the Asahi Shimbun or the Yomiuri, I look at everything from a cross-sectional perspective, and by doing so I try to obtain unbiased facts. In fact, when I look across the news sources, I often find myself impressed (or dumbfounded) that the same news can be viewed from such different perspectives.

Lacica, former editor of the Sacramento Bee, said: 'The old notion that a website visitor came in through the front door is no longer there. People are coming in from the side window, the basement, the attic, wherever they want.'

GIGAZINE has long been a site where people come in from the attic (I don't understand the meaning)

Jim Brady, managing editor of the Washington Post website, said: 'When we launched our website 10 years ago, we wanted it to be the one and only place people go to.'

But these days, the company is happy to be one of the many sources people check every day, he said. He sees the company's homepage as a starting point. In fact, the Washington Post site even had a link to the BBC during the London subway attacks on July 7th. This was unthinkable a few years ago.

surely. Until then, I was wondering if new promotional news sites would win, or if sites based on long-established newspapers would win. just revealed. I guess that's normal, but...

Rather than trying to stop reader churn, Yahoo! News uses RSS technology to make articles anywhere easily accessible. RSS is a technology that instantly notifies users of new entries on their favorite news sites and blogs.

Yahoo! News general manager Neil Budde said: 'In today's world, people want multiple points of view. If you only offer your own point of view, readers will leave anyway and probably never come back.'

It means that GIGAZINE also needs multiple editors (meaning is different)

ITmedia News: Online news, in an era when readers decide which articles to read (2/2)
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0507/26/news054_2.html

Blogs are another way to bypass the home page. Many blogs have a central theme and provide links to perspectives on top news items by bloggers themselves rather than news editors.

As it goes on, GIGAZINE is also a stance close to the blog ... ... It's sane to abandon static HTML to switch to the blog and manually drop all the past news into the database I'm thinking of using it that doesn't work. Someone please help me, for free (no travel expenses)

RSS feeds account for only 2% of the total traffic to The New York Times website, but the number is growing rapidly, reaching around 500,000 in late 2003. The number of page views that was 8.5 million in June.

While GIGAZINE says something, it seems that the number of people who regularly read the currently updated news rather than accessing the past log is increasing by 2% each month according to the access log analysis results. So, it depends on the various blogs that are the source of that increase.

Ultimately, however, blogging pioneer Dave Weiner points out that online news sites must overcome their reluctance to link to other sites in order to remain relevant.

'Readers want a lot of sources and they don't really care if it's linked to an external site or if it's an article within that site. They just want the article,' he said.

That's right. If you can get to the original source, I feel like it's OK, but...

Nikko Mele, the webmaster for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, says he rarely visits news sites in person anymore. Instead, they rely on bloggers such as Dean's backer Marcos Muritzas Zuniga, he said.

In a recent press conference, Mr. Mele referred to Mr. Mouritzas, saying: 'I read what he thinks I should read'

GIGAZINE also focuses on having the main read what you think you should know and what you may not care about (I don't understand the meaning)