Comments on: What to watch on Super Tuesday http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: oakling http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-755214 oakling Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:42:07 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-755214 Yeah, CNN is five years behind in election results usability. I wanted to see whether there was any correlation between what day of the week people were voting on and who got elected, and I had to figure out what day of the week each date was and then look at each date one at a time to get the information I needed. It's called a database, people - learn to use it! Yeah, CNN is five years behind in election results usability. I wanted to see whether there was any correlation between what day of the week people were voting on and who got elected, and I had to figure out what day of the week each date was and then look at each date one at a time to get the information I needed. It’s called a database, people - learn to use it!

]]> By: Bill http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-735235 Bill Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:22:12 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-735235 Where are the county level maps on CNN? They had them in 2004. It stinks that only John King can show these cool county level maps on TV but I can't get them online. I have to disagree with ReadWriteWeb about CNN's online coverage. That "scorecard" page is a usability disaster. And that main page he/she points to is also very weak. On a day like this we want to easily be able to scan a list of which states a candidate won. They are making me click five screen of state names to see the repetition of Clinton/Obama/Clinton/ Obama. It is the first rule of usability, if you see something repeated so many times, flip it around and display those items as static. There are so many usability problems on this site. They seem to be so into this new site design (with the giant headers and the let's-jam-as-much-content-on-one-page-as-possible IA they have forgotten that people need to be able to Use the site or scan to get a quick picture of what's happening. Where are the county level maps on CNN?

They had them in 2004. It stinks that only John King can show these cool county level maps on TV but I can’t get them online.

I have to disagree with ReadWriteWeb about CNN’s online coverage. That “scorecard” page is a usability disaster. And that main page he/she points to is also very weak.

On a day like this we want to easily be able to scan a list of which states a candidate won. They are making me click five screen of state names to see the repetition of Clinton/Obama/Clinton/ Obama. It is the first rule of usability, if you see something repeated so many times, flip it around and display those items as static.

There are so many usability problems on this site. They seem to be so into this new site design (with the giant headers and the let’s-jam-as-much-content-on-one-page-as-possible IA they have forgotten that people need to be able to Use the site or scan to get a quick picture of what’s happening.

]]> By: Safran http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-733718 Safran Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:45:28 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-733718 CNN Headline News is devoting this hour to Natalee Holloway. Gotta love their stubborn resolve to show crazy Nancy Grace and not cover the news on one of the biggest news nights of the year. And talk about parody: The lower third on Nancy Grace says "URGENT BREAKING NEWS" - a term I've never seen. Apparently we've used BREAKING NEWS so much, we need a new term to catch the eye. Still funnier: the "URGENT BREAKING NEWS" isn't urgent or breaking - it's the same information we've known since the weekend. I can't wait to see what term CNN HN comes up with when actual, actual, actual breaking news happens. CNN Headline News is devoting this hour to Natalee Holloway. Gotta love their stubborn resolve to show crazy Nancy Grace and not cover the news on one of the biggest news nights of the year.

And talk about parody: The lower third on Nancy Grace says “URGENT BREAKING NEWS” - a term I’ve never seen. Apparently we’ve used BREAKING NEWS so much, we need a new term to catch the eye. Still funnier: the “URGENT BREAKING NEWS” isn’t urgent or breaking - it’s the same information we’ve known since the weekend.

I can’t wait to see what term CNN HN comes up with when actual, actual, actual breaking news happens.

]]> By: Craig Anderson http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-733550 Craig Anderson Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:05:35 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-digital-coverage-briefs/#comment-733550 Speaking of Twitter, we're twittering Super Tuesday news all day (and night). Click my name for the page with the Twitter embed, or the twitter username is "election results" Speaking of Twitter, we’re twittering Super Tuesday news all day (and night). Click my name for the page with the Twitter embed, or the twitter username is “election results”

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