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April 02, 2007 06:18 PM UTC
19 Comments
FaceTheState.com is trying to be a combination of a Colorado Drudgereport.com, linking to stories published in the state’s newspapers, and blogging on various issues. You can comment on the articles from the various papers, but the system strikes me as clunky.
It’s special reports really are blogs, commentaries, editorials, with little original reporting. They have a strong conservative tone. I’d give them a C+ for writing.
It’s comments sections allow direct replies to individual posts, which is more like a message board than a blog. The latests comments show first instead of being scattered all over the place as they are here.
You can’t write diaries or start conversations on the board, reducing reader participation. This will hurt traffic.
HTML codes are allowed and the system is published so you can figure out how to create links, quotes, etc., something that’s not so clear on ColoradoPols.com.
At this point, I’d say advantage Coloradopols.com, which has a head start, a habitual readership base and better software.
Time will tell whether FaceTheState.com will come clean about its sponsors and funding and whether it will tweak its rather clunky software.
FaceTheState.com makes the huge mistake of using unreadable blue in black reverse type. Reverse type should never be used on web sites.
The home page links to newspapers use huge headlines, making it easy to fill the page but difficult to add more stories when there are more good stories. The site would work better if the home page linked to every newspaper’s report on a critical story. Make it easy to click to every paper in the state covering the budget, for example.
The third column’s “Speical Reports” should be renamed “Hot Topics” or something that honestly offers the blogs as blogs.
Indeed, if I were redesigning the site, I’d install a real message board so participants could start conversations on a variety of topics and really go at it.
Finally, where is the blog roll?
We conservatives need a good site, but FaceTheState.com isn’t it, yet.
Ok, I’ve put asside my gut bias against a liberal website. I’ve taken another look at ColoradoConfidential.com.
Simply put, it’s a beatifully designed site with lots of interesting headlines. I didn’t read the stories to see whether they are as good as their headlines.
But FaceTheState.com certainly makes ColoradoConfidential.com and Coloradopols.com look bright and professional by comparison.
Looks, smells and feels like another state level drudge report. Is it the same group?
ColoradoSenateNews.com “special reports really are blogs, commentaries, editorials, with little original reporting. They have a strong conservative tone. I’d give them a C+ for writing.”
I regularly visit CoCo and other blogs including SquareState (often said to be a more liberal leaning version of Colorado Pols).
I stopped posting comments and diaries on SquareState after two blatant incidences of censorship. I’m an unapologetic conservative (duh) and posted a link to an interesting news story (not an editorial) about a local race during the ’06 campaign. Since the article was not exactly favorable to the liberal candidate my diary got removed from the site.
A big THANK YOU to Colorado Pols and the other blogs that allow discussion rather than a completely one-sided dialogue.
(WHEW) That’s been heavy on my chest too long! LOL
Thank you. I’ve heard lots of that on SquareState, even from Moderate Dems who are sometimes critical of their own party.
(why bother, when they link to their stories here at Pols all the time), but decided to check it out because of AS’s take above.
Interestingly enough, in this story about the person behind the CORA request that has gotten a couple of our legislators in trouble, they say who it is that’s behind the Face The State site.
Just thought I’d share.
Who is it? Let me guess an RRR?
Actually the face the state site stated it when they disclosed the MM email flap.
But I only read this diary. If they mentioned it elsewhere it’s not up on the main page now.
What did he do at the Independence Institute?
Why, despite his PR efforts, is FaceTheState.com getting so little traffic?
Who knows (besides Jessica Peck Corry, the onetime senatorial opponent to Windels)? Maybe FaceTheState is his attempt to become a player in Colorado.
He obviously doesn’t know how to manage web designers.
Explains everything.
I noticed that face the state appears to use the same blogging software (or whatever you call it – I’m no techie). Their site has a superior design but it’s still harder to track the replies when there are a lot of comments.
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
The biggest problem in Colorado politics is not bias but lack of coverage.