My college roommate was in town this weekend and informed me about the completely nauseating Wal-Mart stampede incident. “I read it on the Times site this morning,” she said. “It was in the ‘Most E mailed’ column; that’s how I get all my news.” Now, this is a girl who’s getting her PhD in East Asianist History at Yale, so I strongly doubt the “Most E mailed” column is her one source of current event intel. That said, I see a “Most E mailed” list and I generally read through those articles/blog entries first, whichever site I’m on. Most presenter and orchestra websites already have “Send to a Friend” buttons on their concert listings, so why not have a “Most E mailed” section on their homepages? Other tabs could be “Most Blogged”, “Most Read” and “Most Commented” concert pages, although Joe’s Pub is the only presenter website I’ve seen that allows comments on their concert listings.
The New York Times Arts Section:
Perez Hilton dot com:
(It seems the most commmented posts on Perez Hilton are the ones with the most punctuation in their titles. A marketing thought for presenters? “Eric Owens at Carnegie Hall?!!!”)