The interactive website I chose to discuss this week also happens to be one of my favorites and most visited, ESPN.com. First and foremost, it has practically all of the sporting news one could possibly need. The site not only gives information about the meat and potato sports (football, basketball, baseball and hockey), but also about tennis, boxing, golf and NASCAR. I say almost, because my favorite sport and the one I read about the most is college baseball. As this sport is not quite mainstream, I must find additional sites to discover the news in the sport. ESPN.com however provides a link to sites when they know they have not covered it completely. College baseball was such the case.
I think the site holds attention because of the presentation number one, and the ease of finding the information the viewer wants. Right when the page opens, a large photograph of today’s most recent news appears. To the right is all the AP stories and breaking news. Commentary on the breaking news is listed as well. The final third of the screen has video after video. Almost 50 different videos can be accessed through the front page. The videos are broken down into the different sports or categories. The scoreboard at the top, along with the different sport tabs also make gaining the up-to-date information literally a click away. This site not only holds attention, it keeps people returning.
To say the site offers good information would be an understatement. The site almost gives too much information. The site provides a minimum of five links per story. First things first, the site posts current, accurate, well-written sporting news stories. Second, the site wrote the book on web extras. They have video, charts, graphs, blogs, forums, links and sidebar story after sidebar story. Wow what a site!
Shift Work
This week I updated smartdecision08.com, but ran into problems as “your people” constantly worked on the site. While I could have called it a day, I spent some time giving an extra pair of eyes to KOMU.com. I corrected mistakes and brushed up on some additional AP Style rules I did not know.
Group Project.
I thought I might just write a line or two about this. I feel real confident in finding mid-Missourians to blog on smartdecision08.com. I found several possible candidates who seem real involved in pushing a candidate or party. Next, we plan on working up a letter to possibly send to them discussing the idea and what we are looking for.
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