Just my 2c, please rethink most of the fonts. Not a fan of those.
Also I just don't understand what NewsTilt is :/ It just looks like a blog with some articles... Is there a clear description of what's going on somewhere?
For example I see an article reviewing the movie "How to train your dragon". Why would I only read it on NewsTilt? Isn't it more likely I'd google for reviews and check out a few? I don't see how it fits into peoples behaviors atm... Sort of seems like an online version of a hardcopy paper, but without the hardcopy paper bit :/
Regarding "how to train your dragon". We anticipate that you would Google for it, and that you would find your way to Captain Critic, see some of his other reviews, have a read of them. The next time you look for reviews you see the same thing, and before long you just decide to sign up for RSS.
Then you notice some good comments in the RSS (we'll be sending the top comments with the feed). One day, one of them provokes you so much ("How dare they say that about the matrix") that you click the reply link and let him know your opinion.
And so on. Its not about newstilt, its about the journalist. You like his movie reviews, you'll come back next time. We're giving the journalist everything they need in terms of services to make it happen.
Thanks for explaining. Be interesting to know how many people use RSS. I've never got into it FWIW. If I really loved a review I would of course bookmark the site and pop back every so often though.
I do think a narrower focus would make building a community easier though.
I think the general idea is to act as a central repository for information/articles and to syndicate that out as much as possible (clearly it's not going to wash as a news site with such varied content) and also act as a central "home page" for each journalists brand. (Im not 100% sold on the concept yet - but it has promise)
That is the impression I got from a newsgroup discussion I was part of a short while back when they were looking for ideas on how best to serve journalists (so it might be outdated).
We'll look at the fonts, sure. I wasn't sure myself, but they do look quite pretty.
The notion is to turn journalists into TechCrunch by building a brand around them. This is version 1.0, in that we're trying to attract a community and more journalists so that we can grow to be THE place to go to for news, and to make names of our journalists.
Ah ok, I understand a little more now. Seems like starting with a narrower focus would be good though - being the place for movie reviews, or science news, or politics etc is probably an easier starting goal than trying to be THE place to go to for news.
There's so many places to go for news online now it's kinda overwhelming.
Yes, though I personally overwhelmingly prefer sans serif fonts, the font choice for the main article titles is rather uninspired. The design is not terrible, it just needs attention to details. Also a big readability issue: increase the line-height.
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Just my 2c, please rethink most of the fonts. Not a fan of those.
Also I just don't understand what NewsTilt is :/ It just looks like a blog with some articles... Is there a clear description of what's going on somewhere?
For example I see an article reviewing the movie "How to train your dragon". Why would I only read it on NewsTilt? Isn't it more likely I'd google for reviews and check out a few? I don't see how it fits into peoples behaviors atm... Sort of seems like an online version of a hardcopy paper, but without the hardcopy paper bit :/
Regarding "how to train your dragon". We anticipate that you would Google for it, and that you would find your way to Captain Critic, see some of his other reviews, have a read of them. The next time you look for reviews you see the same thing, and before long you just decide to sign up for RSS.
Then you notice some good comments in the RSS (we'll be sending the top comments with the feed). One day, one of them provokes you so much ("How dare they say that about the matrix") that you click the reply link and let him know your opinion.
And so on. Its not about newstilt, its about the journalist. You like his movie reviews, you'll come back next time. We're giving the journalist everything they need in terms of services to make it happen.
Thanks for explaining. Be interesting to know how many people use RSS. I've never got into it FWIW. If I really loved a review I would of course bookmark the site and pop back every so often though.
I do think a narrower focus would make building a community easier though.
+1, the article text fonts are spidery-thin and hard to read. I'm also not too sure what NewsTilt is -- a 'hn celebrity' type blog?
I think the general idea is to act as a central repository for information/articles and to syndicate that out as much as possible (clearly it's not going to wash as a news site with such varied content) and also act as a central "home page" for each journalists brand. (Im not 100% sold on the concept yet - but it has promise)
That is the impression I got from a newsgroup discussion I was part of a short while back when they were looking for ideas on how best to serve journalists (so it might be outdated).
We'll look at the fonts, sure. I wasn't sure myself, but they do look quite pretty.
The notion is to turn journalists into TechCrunch by building a brand around them. This is version 1.0, in that we're trying to attract a community and more journalists so that we can grow to be THE place to go to for news, and to make names of our journalists.
Ah ok, I understand a little more now. Seems like starting with a narrower focus would be good though - being the place for movie reviews, or science news, or politics etc is probably an easier starting goal than trying to be THE place to go to for news.
There's so many places to go for news online now it's kinda overwhelming.
Yes, though I personally overwhelmingly prefer sans serif fonts, the font choice for the main article titles is rather uninspired. The design is not terrible, it just needs attention to details. Also a big readability issue: increase the line-height.
Noted.