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October 01, 2005
C/Net News.com Beta: Superficially Interesting, But Shallow
Posted by Stowe Boyd
I heard about the new C/Net beta with all sorts of new reliance on bloggish ideas and technology: see Media | News.blog | CNET News.com, for example.
It looks like a blog, and smells like a blog, so, yes, it is a blog. But it falls short of actually being interesting. On a week in media where many people where writing about the layoffs at the New York Times, the News.com Media mastermind was writing about Dot-com millionaire auctioning home on eBay and Kentucky town to get $100k to change name?.
And the writing is reportage, not blogging. But the experiment suggests where this grand experiment is heading: If C/Net can pay journalists to write blogs instead of writing more conventional journalism, wouldn't it be better to aggregate the writing of the best bloggers out there, instead of retread reporters? More to follow on that topic...
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1. Rafat on October 1, 2005 03:29 PM writes...
Stowe, I'm glad you're calling them out. For all the whizbang in the new beta redesign, something is missing..I think it is soul, but maybe that's too corny to say.
Permalink to Comment2. Stowe Boyd on October 2, 2005 10:54 PM writes...
No, R, I think you hit it on the head.
Permalink to Comment3. John Roberts on October 4, 2005 06:54 PM writes...
Interesting that you pick one of the News.com blogs as representative of the beta site. They have changed the least since their introduction in March 2005.
I'd welcome your sharp comments on the changes to the focus of the site: the home page and story page.
John Roberts
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