Comments on: AOL News relaunches as a blog

By: George

George — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:00:59 +0000

This is a really neat article. I enjoyed reading it and learned a few things.

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:08:18 +0000

i’ve said it before, so why not say it again? do both. if you are running a tv website, why don’t you just vblog yourself? you could even launch it under separate cover, but try putting your content into the format… and i mean putting the packages in only. don’t hack up your newscast and post one-minute clips of anchors behind desks reading headlines and no back-and-forth set ups. drop the standard broadcast elements that you have to use on air to provide context and use the text in the post to get that done so you can focus on video that shows something happening.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:20:29 +0000

I think the blog format is a great way to go. (In fact, if I had more time and more income, I’d launch a full-time dedicated news blog.) One of the best models, pre-AOL News, is USAToday’s “On Deadline”. It’ll be interesting to see if this, plus ABCNews, helps to make the news more “interactive” for regular folks.

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:53:45 +0000

hey, that ’skateboarding dog’ was really something to see.

darn thing gets to do it in hawaii too!

i’m left to ponder why the gals in the ‘burgh did not use it on their daily web-only.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:34:36 +0000

funny, i was looking at this model a year ago at my old job, but backed away… i still think this is the future of news site front pages, plus 1 or 2 slots of editor-chosen features at the tippy top so the big news stories of the day don’t get buried.

i’m also a huge fan of ranking-type organization like digg and think it’s a good way to go for sites who have enough traffic to support such a front page design.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:13:57 +0000

Already the site is breaking the idea of a blog by ranking things in a different order than they were posted. The first two Paris stories are not in the order of most recent. Right now the top post is Paris getting out of jail, and it says it was posted 16 min ago (even though she was released about 16 hours ago). It would be understandable if it were an updated story, but nothing in the headline, image or short text are new.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:08:49 +0000

I’ll be very interested to watch this. I’m a huge fan of using a blog format to cover breaking news, but that’s when it’s focused on one topic. It will be interesting to see how this site feels when there is a death story followed by a health story followed by a skateboarding dog.