Comments on: ‘McPaper’ to ‘McWeb2.0′: USATODAY Goes Social

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By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:38:40 +0000

Well, for some perspective, the page now has 292 comments, over 90% of which are negative, and 127 “recommends.”

By: JayW

JayW — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:49:59 +0000

258 out of how many readers? Not even a blip on the charts.

I like the UI better but the pages are way way to fat. . . They must have locked the usability geeks in the closet. . .

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:13:18 +0000

Actually, some commenters are complaining that their negative comments are being removed. Obviously not very many of the now 258 mostly negative comments on their announcement have been removed, but even some of those have been alleged to be censored.

It would be nice to be able to contradict patently false news stories, though.

By: Jason Schramm

Jason Schramm — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:07:25 +0000

I knew something looked different. They seem to have thrown some usability out the window. Why is it that newspapers don’t want to look like a newspaper? But at least I can comment when they post blatant lies.

By: Tyler Banfield

Tyler Banfield — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:46:20 +0000

Wow, I thought people were exaggerating about how slow the site loads, but even on a high speed connection, it took way too long to load!

By: rcjordan

rcjordan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:04:23 +0000

I read USAToday 3 days a week!

…OK, just the front page.

…OK, through the glass, it’s in the rack outside the door of a favorite restaurant.

…OK, I just glimpse the headlines.

Warren Buffet sez:
(And for newspapers that have pinned their revenue hopes on their Web sites, Buffett had a sobering prediction:) “. . . the economic potential of a newspaper Internet site — given the many alternative sources of information and entertainment that are free and only a click away — is at best a small fraction of that existing in the past for a print newspaper facing no competition.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007 030201278_pf.html