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Go online, get involved
Posted by Vera Haller on Feb 5, 2008 under: community journalism, newspapers, online news, politics, video
A lot of news is happening in the city today. People are voting in the presidential primary, helping the Giants celebrate their Super Bowl victory at a ticker tape parade downtown and maybe even taking in a show at Fashion Week at the tents in Bryant Park.
In this day and age, there is no reason for anyone to be just a consumer of news. News Web sites in the area are providing plenty of opportunities for readers to be part of these stories.
The Daily News has a cool feature in its fashion coverage called “Hot or Not.” Readers click to a page with photos from the catwalks and they are able to vote on which outfits they like and which outfits they don’t.
For Super Tuesday, The New York Times rolled out its ongoing “Polling Place Photo Project,” with a link off the homepage. Readers are asked to upload photos of their polling places and provide a little bit of information such as how crowded a polling place was at the time of the photo. These photos are hardly scintillating, but people seem to be getting into the project
A little more raucous were the videos of Super Bowl celebrations posted by readers on NJ.com. The site, which gets its news from a group of New Jersey newspapers including The Star Ledger in Newark and The Times of Trenton, had a pretty good selection of reader-posted videos. The site was soliciting photos and video from today’s parade so it may be worth a look this evening when people have had a chance to get home and upload their coverage.
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I really like this idea of allowing the viewer to take part in websites. This interactive method, I feel, would be effective in allowing the viewer to stay on a particular site for longer, and might even interest more people to find out what others feel are interesting or important pictures. It can cause a sort of bandwagon. Also, I feel that in a sense, it’s a new form of blogging, excpet it’s in pictures.
To be honest, I like reading the fashion coverage in the newspapers. It gives me a break from reading local\international news. It is different when I see it online because I feel as if I am shopping for things.
In this day an age, technology plays a big role on how people communicate with one another. Writers allowing readers to participate in current events by sharing insight and ideas is a fresh and exciting way for readers and writers to converse. Online websites give us the opportunity to be up to date with news, fashion and more, locally and globally.
I like the idea of allowing us to get involved. It gives us the chance to share insight as Stephanie says and that’s another way to build website loyalty. The voting center pictures were a cool idea; gives shots from other perspective. The “Hot\Not” has been done numerous times; I’m not too fond of this version - it feels as if they’re bashing the designs with some of the comments that have been posted. You have to respect others creativity! It’s not an easy take to put together a collection.
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