Comments on: Las Vegas Sun’s terrific online fire coverage

By: Brandon Mount

Brandon Mount — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:04:23 +0000

What is so great??
The events search is at the bottom of a huge long list of events, and the current implementation does not allow for user submitted events.

as well this calendar placement is really weird… (note it’s appearance at the bottom of column 2.)

Basically this is a web 1.0 newssite with hd video and flash photo galleries.

There is no UGC, you can’t even post your own photos? I am sure the ugc will come as the site evolves but they should have launched with those features.

Maybe it is really hard in Ellington to do user submitted multimedia?

By: W

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:22:19 +0000

This is the same thing Curley’s comrades have stamped out each place they’ve been. Little things change - in this case the most noticeable is the video, which is nice but kept buffering for me. Smaller video that didn’t buffer would be just fine.

By: Z

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:14:10 +0000

I’ll just leave you a message.

Maybe you’ll call.

By: Safran

Safran — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:33:39 +0000

Yes. But I’ve got me an office, gold records on the wall…

By: Brink

Brink — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:58:16 +0000

Didn’t you lose your license?

And now you can’t drive?

By: Safran

Safran — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:25:46 +0000

My Maserati does 185…

By: Contrarian

Contrarian — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:03:23 +0000

My HDTV is 1080.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:09:29 +0000

Contrarian: “It doesn’t look as good as my big HDTV on the wall.”

Did you see the download 720p option?

By: Contrarian

Contrarian — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:52:03 +0000

I’m sure it does.

However, suggesting that newspaper websites’ video kicks TV’s butt is a little unrealistic.

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:26:01 +0000

i get tired of lugging my “big hdtv” around the world.

my laptop does just fine.

By: Contrarian

Contrarian — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:21:01 +0000

It doesn’t look as good as my big HDTV on the wall.

Until the newspaper produces and distributes in that medium, it ain’t kicking TV’s butt in video.

By: Safran

Safran — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:16:36 +0000

Their use of video is just stunning, and is another example of how newspapers can really kick TV’s butt in video. Amazing, but true. Click on my name for the Sun’s excellent video of an implosion of one of the old Vegas hotels from November.

16×9 video. HUGE player. It looks good fullscreen.

Why don’t TV sites offer video like this?

By: Contrarian

Contrarian — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:41:22 +0000

That’s just dumb.

Google has small text ad on some pages, nothing at all on others.

And a massive number of users. Far more than any local TV site will ever have.

But you want us to try to operate like Google, huh?

You going to make up the lost revenue for us out of your pocket?

By: Don Day

Don Day — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:21:58 +0000

Well Google has a million ads on its home page… so we should too.
Oh wait.

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:53:41 +0000

Wait, there are no ads serving anywhere. Must be some kind of issue with the new launch…