Tom Grubisich: June 2008 archive
It's a lo-o-o-ong way from Lawrence, Kan., to Loudoun County, Va.
June 9, 2008
The headline on the Wall Street Journal story about the Washington Post's widely watched venture in local-local journalism on the Web was unambiguous: "Big Daily's Hyperlocal Flop."So how bad actually is LoudounExtra.com? Let's look.
On the LoudounExtra homepage, I am greeted with this above-the-fold spread:
My squinting eyes try to read the reverse-type blurb, but before I can finish, a new image/blurb is automatically rotated in the space.
After figuring out how to retrieve the original blurb, I pull up the story. Big mistake. More...
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