The Globe rolled out a tweaked boston.com home page. It's quite something. At least on my monitor, the first screen now has six ads and just three stories, six random headlines and half a photo.
Also, for you bloggy types, they've ditched the daily link to a local blog post, but given more emphasis to the Your Town listing of Globe-specific mini-sites on communities that are not in the city whose name still sits in their masthead.
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Yahoo!
By riggssm (not lo...
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 4:11pm
It's the internet, for old and stupid people! Big print, happy colors, cartoon faces, and a clusterflock of trivial nonsense.
This has been in beta for months, at least it finally launched.
Amazing what a news site has
By anon
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 4:17pm
Amazing what a news site has to look like in a time when the web has totally devalued advertising and presented news as cost-free. Less news, more ads--all hail the glory and wisdom of the "information is free" Internet! Thank god we'll all just tweet the news to each from now on.
Globe's new layout is a loser for local news
By Jonas Prang
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 4:26pm
Boston.com's new layout is a sure loser for those of us who read it for its—admittedly scanty—local news.
It has moved from a format of quickly scan-able headlines to a silly [i]MetroDesk[/i] decorated with big photos. I'm not going to waste my time scrolling around looking for the headlines.
Welcome to the future
By Dave
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 4:38pm
[img]http://www.ilounge.com/images/uploads/idiocracy3.j...
In all seriousness
By anon
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 8:45pm
My 11 year old told me that he didn't understand why Ow! My Balls! wasn't a real program. He thought it would be an awesome TV show!
Actually, it _has_ been done:
By Uncle Anon
Fri, 09/11/2009 - 11:35am
http://www.kickedinthenuts.com/
(Tell your 11-year-old "You're welcome.")
This helps.
By Ron A.
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 5:47pm
AdBlock Plus (Firefox only, I'm afraid.)
NoScript
By mixylplik3
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 9:36pm
Using NoScript for Firefox is a truly great thing. I see something very different.
(I'm not a fan of the new "compactness," either, ads or not.)
[IMG]http://i31.tinypic.com/2qx6hzc.jpg[/IMG]
I use noscript, too
By Jonas Prang
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 10:08pm
I use noscript with Firefox, too. And, when I wrote my cavil above, I didn't notice the box on the left labeled [i]Local >>[/i].
I'm guessing the format is squirming. Or, maybe my eye was completely captured by a [i]Metro Desk[/i] planted in the middle of the page.
Pathetic
By JohnAKeith
Fri, 09/11/2009 - 12:47am
Debbie Downer here. New design is terrible. Ugh!
Beyond that, I like how they've prioritized the Metro Desk. Can we spin that off to a site of its own??
boston.com right now shows one "news" story above the fold - about Harvard's drop in endowment. Says it was uploaded at 4:00 PM. What, do all the reporters go home then?? It's quarter to one in the morning!!! Post something new!
Can they just move everything over to twitter with links to a single news story and one ad beside it? That's all I need.