Fife Online website

[mcwesty2000]

Has anyone else noticed that there is a slight bias on this website when it comes to Glenrothes?

Firstly, week on week the front page of the site shows the main articles relating to Cupar (Fife Herald), St. Andrews (Citizen) and Kirkcaldy (Fife Free Press). Never the Glenrothes Gazette main articles.

Secondly, I have also noticed that, every so often, the Gazette section isnt updated and it can be 2 weeks before new stories appear (as is the case this week). Every other paper has been updated.

Thirdly, i have noticed that ever since Sainsbury's announced they are moving into town, the website has not featured one article about it..? Even though it has often been front page news on the gazette a number of times now... There are regular and almost full stories for all the other papers shown on the website, particularly when they announced Kirkcaldy is to get a new cinema....

[markinchman]

The headlines on the front page are just feeds from other sites, they update as the sites update. Mark will tell you where exactly the feeds are coming from.

It's really just for lazyness. Instead of manually typing out and uploading the headlines several times a day they are extracted from relevant news sites.

Although I do agree with you, it's often not very local.

[Mark]

aye, they're just rss feeds that automatically update - the news section is basically a google news search on Glenrothes and Markinch, so everything that google rates as high importance with the word Glenrothes in it gets on there (I think the gazette articles probably take the fact that the stuff is happening in Glenrothes for granted and don't mention it in a lot of their articles so google misses them - maybe I should add in the regions in Glenrothes to the search) The events section is an rss feed from fife council's "what's on" section, so picks up everything going on in Fife!
I have been a bit lax on the updates recently cos I just started a new job working for Carlsberg in the West of Scotland, so I'm driving back and forwards to pubs in Ayrshire and Kilmarnock every day and when I get back over here I'm knackered and go to sleep! still - the feeds are better than the old setup of me typing in what's going on every so often, cos at the moment there'd be very little due to my kipping!
as always, the front page is open to whoever wants to add to it - just let me know!
off to Stranraer now! jebus!

[alanm]

He means the stories on the front page of fifeonline, not the front page here.

[Mark]

aaaah.....
now I understand!
(just after I found a feed for the gazette's headlines too.... www.fifenow.co.uk/getfeed.aspx?sectionid=1019&format=rss )