Well-meaning

Trevor @ Tuesday March 25th 2008 09:29

L’Independent, a government-financed, ovine local rag, which has turned off its WP feeds and whose Feedburner URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/tu_codigo_feedburner. Sigh…


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  1. Tom
    March 25th 2008 11:46

    Honestly.

    You can get a feed here: http://www.independent.cat/?feed=rss2

    …if you really want to.

  2. Trevor ap Simon
    March 25th 2008 11:58

    Bugger, I tried it back then this morning and it didn’t work. My apologies.

  3. Tom
    March 25th 2008 12:08

    Just had a look at one of their PDFs. It included an article about how the l’Independent’s website receives ‘more than 100 visitors each day’.

    It’s quite sweet, really.

    Not that all Spanish websites are quite so small-time.
    http://ojdinteractiva.ojd.es/home.php ;-)

  4. Trevor ap Simon
    March 25th 2008 12:13

    I figure that if we gave them about €3.65 a month they’d support any political cause we wanted. You can have April.

  5. Trevor ap Simon
    March 26th 2008 10:31

    Today the link to the phoney Feedburner feed has disappeared, and the footer has changed. L’Independent is on the move!

    Just how much subsidy do they get for their 100 hits a day?

  6. Tom
    March 28th 2008 13:36

    Well if they keep an eye on their stats, they will probably have noticed a ’spike’ of 10 visits from this very blog, and may have had the sense to check out what you were saying about them.

    I subscribed to it but have discovered that unfortunately it’s just damnably boring.

  7. Trevor ap Simon
    March 28th 2008 19:29

    Dear Independent,

    We hereby propose the following outline deal:

    * You pay us 90% of your subsidies and any other revenues, and say nice things about us to your funders and advertisers.
    * We will write and publish online and on paper an interesting newsletter targeted at your current audience which will increase readership by factor 5 within 12 months.

    Signed,

    The Guiri Mafia

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