As recounted by a fly who claimed to be on the wall at a recent Stranger editorial meeting:
“Next item: We’re getting too much traffic on SLOG in the evening and overnight, long after we’ve stopped posting anything new for the day. It’s annoying. Any ideas?”
“Can we shut down the whole site between, say, 8pm and 8am? Then we wouldn’t get any page hits at all. Problem solved!”
“Too much trouble. How about this: Whoever writes the last post of the day, just label it as that so everyone knows there’s no reason for them to visit the site until Morning News goes up.”
“So, each afternoon there’ll be a post titled something like, ‘End of Day’?”
“Too wordy. Let’s abbreviate it to ‘EOD’.”
“Will people figure out what that stands for?”
“Give it a week or two and see; if they don’t, we can just explain it at the bottom of the post every day.”
I wish I could un-hear the posted samples. If the Beatles and Wu-Tang fit together somehow, we certainly wouldn't know it from these ignorant, sloppy juxtapositions. And, Dave, if you have any musical taste, we wouldn't know it from this post.
“Next item: We’re getting too much traffic on SLOG in the evening and overnight, long after we’ve stopped posting anything new for the day. It’s annoying. Any ideas?”
“Can we shut down the whole site between, say, 8pm and 8am? Then we wouldn’t get any page hits at all. Problem solved!”
“Too much trouble. How about this: Whoever writes the last post of the day, just label it as that so everyone knows there’s no reason for them to visit the site until Morning News goes up.”
“So, each afternoon there’ll be a post titled something like, ‘End of Day’?”
“Too wordy. Let’s abbreviate it to ‘EOD’.”
“Will people figure out what that stands for?”
“Give it a week or two and see; if they don’t, we can just explain it at the bottom of the post every day.”