News Search Experience

I had a frustrating experience with searching the newspapers. I ran into the same problems that a lot of the other students were confronted with. Only one of my newspapers I found to be very well organized, which was the Charlotte Observer. It had an easy navigation bar on the side of the site and labeled the section where I could find “Blogs”/”Forums” and it even had a internet only area where they had “RSS” labled. It was very easy to get into each of the areas and find what I was looking for. The other three papers were not so organized. I had to spend at least 15 minutes just trying to determine if they had Blogs at all. With the Fort Worth paper I was just about to give up and then I stumbled across one, which made me search even longer because I thought I had possibly missed another one. Overall it was discouraging. I feel like the only reason the Charlotte was so organized was because it had SO many Blogs/Forums/RSS info. The rest of the papers had just a few or none. If they had just a few I am sure they were not as concerned with organizing them. There must be some “rule” out there that determines that if you have have under ‘x’ amount of Blogs you don’t need to organize them, but if you have over ‘x’ amount you need to. I think in the future we are going to see a trend where news sites are going to get more and more organized to meet the demand of the comsumers.

1 comment February 15, 2007