RO
I do quite like the idea of the story aggregations - and on a better site it could be a powerful way of bringing things together (and more pervasively) than the likes of the BBC's 'Live' pages.
The content still isn't great though, but this has improved throughout the day. A few examples of articles earlier consisted of two or three huge stock photos, and half a dozen sentences of copy. Some have been more fleshed out since, but the emphasis is clearly on pushing video reports. Maybe the brevity works - I can see better how the format could appeal to some...
I think you're maybe oversimplifying it a bit. I've had a play around with it and I think it's really good - there's much more to it than Twitter updates. The way it is organised is brilliant - everything is there on the homepage, and the way of presenting individual stories works really well in that you have multiple articles, Tweets, pictures and videos grouped together to give a really well rounded look at both the latest developments and the background too.
A nice surprise that they've made such a good job of this.
A nice surprise that they've made such a good job of this.
I do quite like the idea of the story aggregations - and on a better site it could be a powerful way of bringing things together (and more pervasively) than the likes of the BBC's 'Live' pages.
The content still isn't great though, but this has improved throughout the day. A few examples of articles earlier consisted of two or three huge stock photos, and half a dozen sentences of copy. Some have been more fleshed out since, but the emphasis is clearly on pushing video reports. Maybe the brevity works - I can see better how the format could appeal to some...
