How Esquire magazine is mining its archives

Re:How Esquire magazine is mining its archives by a3n on Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:20PM (#10283923)

> The standalone website launched in late March, with a twist: The full text of each story published on Esquire Classics is also sent out in a weekly email — the latest evidence that people’s inboxes are gaining appeal as a publishing platform.

My reading of NYT articles (as opposed to a page of links to an article, like their front page) comes from these three avenues:

  1. Their morning email to me.
  2. Links from HN.
  3. Going to their site directly. I almost never do this.

Note that I pay for an online subscription to NYT, but I still almost never go there directly. I like their article pages, but their link pages are redundant and messy.

I'll go so far to say that I wouldn't be a NYT subscriber if it hadn't been for their daily email (free) and HN links. Their general site never made me feel like I wanted to subscribe.

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Re:How Esquire magazine is mining its archives by roymurdock on Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:46PM (#10284014)

I get both the NYT and the Quartz daily briefs in my inbox. I find the Quartz email to have a) much more relevant/interesting content and b) to be much more readable with no obnoxious ads. I'm not affiliated with Quartz in any way but I would suggest you check out their daily brief if you like to consume news this way.

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Re:How Esquire magazine is mining its archives by a3n on Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:49PM (#10284020)

I don't have ads in my NYT emails either. I have adblock in my Thunderbird. :)

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