does technology news only happen on friday

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

RTÉ has a new tech news portal and a fine looking thing it is. the content is of high quality too. its in conjunction with techcentral.ie and the site is here. http://www.rte.ie/business/technologynews.html

but my 2KB of woe with this is that, for purchased-in content, why does this ‘portal’ make the old mistakes of web 1.0 in the ajax age, and make Friday the tech news day. news happens when it happens, it can be published on or off site with wonderful CMS and work flow management tools, so why devise a special day for tech news. also the RSS feed from the tech news page is for the business site. but unless the tech news goes daily I wont need the RSS feed that does not exist.

BTW the same issue applies to business news / aertel p130, it happens at the weekend too, ok not as much but it does happen.

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whats with aertel

Friday, January 12th, 2007

this mornings fix of news was delayed as aertel 103/130 etc didn’t
update until 10:02am - usually its about 7:40am - and Christmas day
had Christmas eve news all day instead of a ‘we’re closed to day’
message.. hopefully not an omen for the demise of a much loved
service.

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