{"id":3840,"date":"2006-06-21T23:54:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T06:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/06\/21\/stranger-vs-weekly-in-the-online-world\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:31:22","slug":"stranger-vs-weekly-in-the-online-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/06\/21\/stranger-vs-weekly-in-the-online-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger vs. Weekly in the Online World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6173,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308191958\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 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21:41:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 21:41:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6416,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.seattleweekly.com\\\/about\\\/pages\\\/rss.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150919191500\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.seattleweekly.com\\\/about\\\/pages\\\/rss.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 03:37:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 11:23:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 21:42:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 21:42:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s two alt-weeklys, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/\" title=\"The Stranger\">The Stranger<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/\" title=\"Seattle Weekly\">Seattle Weekly<\/a> have been battling it out in this town for <em>far<\/em> longer than I&#8217;ve been around to witness it. In the time I&#8217;ve been here, though, I&#8217;ve pretty much settled on grabbing a copy of each when I&#8217;ve got time to read both; if I only have time to read or skim one, I&#8217;ll generally grab the Stranger (if for no other reason that it tends to be more entertainingly snarky).<\/p>\n<p>Each paper has been re-vamping their respective websites over the past year or so. Last year sometime, the Stranger waded into the weblog world with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/blog\/\" title=\"The Stranger: Slog\">Slog<\/a>, which after a somewhat clumsy start has been running strong (and was doing the best reporting in town on the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/saturday_mourni.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Saturday Mourning\">Capitol Hill shooting<\/a> at the time). Not long afterwards came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/lineout\/\" title=\"The Stranger: Line Out\">Line Out<\/a>, focusing more on the local music scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Weekly just stepped up to the plate today, going live with not just one but three blogs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/news\/blogs\/dailyweekly\/\" title=\"Seattle Weeky: The Daily Weekly\">The Daily Weekly<\/a> (&#8220;News, Politics, Media&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/arts\/blogs\/postalley\/\" title=\"Seattle Weekly: Post Alley\">Post Alley<\/a> (&#8220;Seattle Arts &amp; Culture&#8221;), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/news\/blogs\/mossblog\/\" title=\"Seattle Weekly: Mossblog\">Mossblog<\/a> (an online companion to Knute Berger&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/news\/mossback\" title=\"Seattle Weekly: Mossback\">Mossback<\/a>&#8216; column.<\/p>\n<p>While things just went live, so it&#8217;s going to be a bit before they really settle in and get in the groove (they&#8217;re in the process of figuring out how to turn comments on), it&#8217;s a promising start.<\/p>\n<p>One nice thing I noticed immediately, though, is going to end up making me more of a regular reader of the Weekly rather than the Stranger: easy to find, obvious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/about\/pages\/rss.html\" title=\"Seattle Weekly: RSS Feeds\">RSS feeds for <em>everything<\/em><\/a>. Where the Stranger is only providing RSS feeds for their two blogs, the Weekly has RSS feeds embedded into every page (for easy auto-discovery by web browsers or feed readers), easy links on every page to specific RSS feeds for that section of the paper, and links on every page to their main RSS page, which lists all their available feeds &#8212; including one catchall feed for the entire current issue.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it&#8217;s not perfect &#8212; while the Daily Weekly gets a full-text feed (yay!), the main issue feed has only one-line summaries (boo!). While I can understand why they might not want to go for a full-text feed for their entire issue (after all, it is advertising dollars that fund the paper), I do wish they&#8217;d at least provide a better summary &#8212; a paragraph, whether hand-crafted or just one single opening paragraph lifted from the article. Single-sentence descriptions <em>might<\/em> catch my eye, but all too often, they just don&#8217;t give enough context or information to really grab my interest.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time&#8230;even that single line description is a <em>lot<\/em> more information than the Stranger gives me when they get a new issue up. So kudos to the Weekly&#8230;and hey! Stranger! Step it up, will ya?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253D1000 Homo DJs%2526songTerm=Supernaut%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Supernaut' on the iTMS\">Supernaut<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253D1000 Homo DJs%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for '1000 Homo DJs' on the iTMS\">1000 Homo DJs<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253D1000 Homo DJs%2526albumTerm=Supernaut%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Supernaut' on the iTMS\">Supernaut<\/a> <\/em> (1992, 6:42).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Weekly one-ups the Stranger with three new weblogs and RSS feeds for their entire website. Kudos to the Weekly&#8230;and hey! Stranger! Step it up, will ya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}