How Are We Doing? Reader Feedback Time
Dear readers,
We really appreciate your daily feedback in the comments section (a shout-out goes to commenter all-stars Tim Street, Mark Schoneveld, and Frank Sinton!). But every once in a while, we need you to straight-up tell us how we’re doing. We’ve put together a few questions about our performance that we’d love for you to answer. As a thank you, we will hook you up with a Seesmic invite if you substantially answer our questions, either in a comment on this post or in an email to my first name at this domain name.
Posting: Do you like how often we post? Are you eager for more-more-more or are you overwhelmed by the current output? Would you prefer more quick-hit posts, or longer posts, but fewer of them?
Content: What topics would you like to see more or less of? Are there any particular stories you’d like to read?
Design: We will soon be transitioning to something similar to the new GigaOM and Web Worker Daily designs, so we’ll have the opportunity to tweak the way things look and feel. Are there any design elements or features you’d like to see?
Thanks,
Liz, Chris, Craig, Jackson, Carolyn, Om, Janko, Karina, and Don
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Honestly, I love you guys the way you are! I miss Jackson’s posts, though. Wish I could see more of him (hopefully when he’s done with schoolin’).
Design = it’s great, but I read 90% of NTV on RSS and only see design when I click to comment.
Content = You guys are so on top of all the topics I want to know about! Srsly. You’re numero uno on my feed reader, so I feel like you ‘break’ all the stories even if one of the ‘others’ did first… Length is great. Embeded vids are great. Amount of posts is great.
Content = I would love to see more about “How To” for indie producers. Loved, loved, loved Chris’s post yesterday about what video producers are charging and what are trends with costs… but more topics along the lines of how to help video bloggers and producers make this a career.
Content = I know she’s a busy woman, but I really love Karina’s coverage of new shows, vids. More plz!
Postings: The amount seems fine, the length seems ok, but the content within could be more informative of new trends.
More info on ground breaking projects would be cool. I’m either working on something new or researching the next new thing, so this is of great
interest to me.
Content: Maybe more long tail projects in the works. More mobile content that relates to video would be nice too.
Design: I never click those featured videos.
Posting: Decent amount; neither too much or too little.
Content: What I’m personally interested in is news about online content… new web shows that might be interesting, and how they’re being distributed (which sites they use), and the production involved behind them. I’m less interested in gadget news, or who just got some funding (no offense to anyone intended, just not my thing).
Design: I mostly read the articles in a feedreader, so I can’t say that the design is all that important to me.
Thanks!
slightly too many postings recently
Vid-biz should show all headlines on fist page
great mix thematically , writingstyles and team wise
NewTeeVee with an old TV logo is at best ironic
You are doing a super fine job. Thanks
As this fledgling industry evolves at a blistering pace, morphing into a mature business long before it can walk, y’all @ newteevee have also matured and begun to find your distinct voice…which many of us have come to rely on, on a daily basis.
Not everyday is wonderful, but, overall, we forget those days and appreciate the passion of your efforts and your own evolution as a reliable Definer and ahead-of-the-curve-Notifier of this sub-universe we reside in…(we can’t all be Deciders)
These are early days, don’t peak too early, will be great to all grow old together.
Postings: Slighty too much postings lately; i agree on that. Could be longer, but then put a summary on top.
Content: I’m personally pretty much interested in original fiction web series lately, so it would be great to see more on this topic.
All in all, keep up the good work,
Cheers, Simon
Posting: There could always be more! Since I work with online video it’s fabulous to have a blog like this to read.
Content: I’m based in Sweden and would love some European angle from time to time. It’s great when you mention figures of all kinds. The production cost piece from the other day was magnificent.
Design: It’s a blog, there’s not that much to change atm. Maybe you could decrease the spacing a bit. If the design elements are handled correctly there’s no need for double spacing between everything.
Hey Liz & Co.,
Long-time reader, first-time poster here. In general, thanks for your great work — journalistic coverage of the new-media marketplace is largely poor, and you guys fill the niche really well.
Posting: I find the number of daily posts to be neither over- nor underwhelming, but if I had to choose, I can’t imagine being bothered by more posts, so long as the overall quality of the blog’s not diluted.
Quick hits don’t bother me; I’d rather get breaking news immediately, even if I have to wait for your analysis. Plus, it’d give you guys a chance to post noteworthy news even if analysis isn’t necessary (sometimes, cool links speak for themselves). Anyway, more posts = more chances to attract new readers, so it seems like a good direction for you.
Content: Nothing in particular stands out as bad, but I think you could do more in terms of featuring and reviewing individual sites and services. With so many sites emerging (and so many of them impossible to distinguish from one another), it’s really tough to keep track of who’s doing what well. Sometimes lame sites have good ideas, and vice versa; I think you’re in a good position to explore such things.
As a writer and reader, one of my favorite themes is exploring flaws in media coverage, so I’d love to see more of that. Today’s “Break It Down” was nicely done, for instance.
Design: I’m with the RSS readers — this doesn’t really make a difference to me. But I’d rethink the logo and header, and add tags; topicsjust don’t do it for me, especially considering that almost everything could be considered “Online Video.” Make the tags RSS-friendly, too, so users can subscribe to them on an a-la-carte basis.
Thanks for asking,
Dean Simakis
Overall great blog…. my only complaint is that your feed only has the 10 most recent entries. I sometimes miss news because I don’t leave my aggregator open 24/7.
Please increase the feed to 20-25 posts (or at least allow me to make a custom feed query)!