Here’s a neato little tip if you want to go back in time through the news. Type this into your web browser’s address bar:
http://www.cbc.ca/news_archives/YYYYMMDD.jhtml
Be sure to substitute the “YYYYMMDD” with the actual year, month, and day you’d like to look up. For instance:
http://www.cbc.ca/news_archives/20010911.jhtml
There’s even a shortcut to this on the CBC News page — it’s near the very bottom-right of the page. Pretty nice touch, considering nearly all other national news outlets charge you to read content older than a month or so.
The page you see in the news archive is just a “snapshot” of what www.cbc.ca/news/ looked like at some point during that day. If you want to see all of the news that was published on a particular day, you can use the searge engine: type the follwing search query in: “inurl:story/2001/09/11″ (without the quotes) This will return all news stories written on September 11, 2001.
CBC plans to add social media elements into its web site, according to a memo to staff sent this morning by CBC TV executive Richard Stursberg.
“We want to move to a [web] 2.0 environment,” he wrote, “Providing our audiences with the ability to
- comment on items
- rate them
- link to them from their blog or website
- subscribe to specific types of content
- search for specific video content
- submit user-generated content.”
What else should we be doing? Let me know in the comments.
No word yet if CBC will redesign its logo to this:
televisionCBC 2.0 beta
Stursberg also struck back at critics who say CBC TV is under siege. “We still have work to do, but we are by no means “beleaguered”, as some of the country’s television columnists — many of whom work, ultimately, for companies that have a commercial interest in our success or failure — would have people believe.”
Stursberg noted that CBC Televisions primetime share for the regular season to date is 7.3%. Our share for the ’05-’06 regular season was 7.3%. In ’04-’05 it was 6.7%; in ’03-’04 it was 7.3%; and in ’02-’03 it was 6.9%.