Finally, Disney.com to launch new look

Disney.com has long been on my list of one of the worst major media web designs imagineable. Really, is it a website or a board game? Fortunately, Disney CEO Robert Iger is expected to debut a new design at CES next week that’s taken a year to build. Meanwhile, some in Disney want the group heads, instead of the Disney Internet Group, to oversee their respective internet strategies. The idea is to integrate the web more seamlessly into their traditional businesses. This organizational struggle is reflected at media companies everywhere: while the traditional media execs should have more control, at the same time they tend to extend old media thinking to the web. Old look below…