The Observer Blog

The world's oldest Sunday paper, The Observer, has launched a blog that should lend ideas to newspaper blogs everywhere. So many papers have blogs now, what's so special about this one? It includes podcasts, mobile posts, Del.icio.us links and a tagging system The Observer calls "The Folksonomic Zeitgeist."

"Every one of our weblog posts has been categorised by the writer in two different ways. First, the post is linked to the section of the newspaper that it relates to. The front page of the weblog has links to the archives of these sections. This is simple. The second way, however, is more involved. The writer adds keywords to each post to more finely describe the subject matter. These are called 'tags'. The folksonomic zeitgeist shows the tags that have been used over the past seven days, sized in relation to the amount they have been used. This way you can see the subjects that have been on our mind the most over the past week."

The blog also includes entries from the Observer editor about the making of the daily paper that create a new level of transparency.

(The Observer is the Sunday paper of The Guardian, which has long been an online leader when it comes to Weblogs)

Feb 27, 2005 | E-MAIL | SAVE | PRINT | PERMALINK | DISCUSS(0)

Discussion

0 comments about 'The Observer Blog'

Post a comment

Name:

Email Address (will not be published):

Comment on "'The Observer Blog'":


Security code:     Enter code to post:

Trackbacks

TrackBack URL:   http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cgi-bin/mt-tab.cgi/591

2 Weblogs reference 'The Observer Blog'

Observer tem um blog
Trackback excerpt:   Um dos mais reputados semanários britânicos, o Observer, abriu ontem as portas do seu blog. E logo num dos posts de abertura está bem explícita a potencial fragilidade da relação entre o trabalho jornalístico e aquilo que os jornalistas (em... [Read More]

Posted on Atrium at March 1, 2005 9:22 AM

Observer tem um blog
Trackback excerpt:   Um dos mais reputados semanários britânicos, o Observer, abriu ontem as portas do seu blog. E logo num dos posts de lançamento está bem explícita a potencial fragilidade da relação entre o trabalho jornalístico e aquilo que os jornalistas (em... [Read More]

Posted on Atrium at March 1, 2005 9:23 AM

Site Map