Avisen.dk: First fullsize preview
This Friday the new Danish free newspaper Nyhedsavisen hits the streets - together with the launch of the much expected website avisen.dk. According to Danish newspaper Børsen today avisen.dk plans to invite users to write as what in ohmynews-terms would be “citizen journalists” alongside content produced by the entire editorial staff of Nyhedsavisen.
I just received this version of the screendump of a dummyproduction of the frontpage with test-stories from Nyhedsavisen. First time ever made publicly availble in readable high-resolution. Just click here or click the picture to get the large size!)
From the looks of the frontpage you can’t really tell much about the user-involvement. There are links to blog-posts and comments to the topstory, a “my news section”, “my pages” and “others pages”.
Can’t wait to se what article pages will look like. And find out where to click to contribute with content:-)
Interesting to see the layout. I read the article in Børsen and it seems like a lot of the sections get populated automatically. Having said that I too would like to see it under the helmet - it’s like watching a picture of a car without the opportunity to test drive.
Two further comments:
I hope they check their spelling on the various elements of the page. They spell almost as bad as Morten Lund does on his blog ;-).
More importantly I was wondering what the copyright notice at the bottom is about. Especially the banning of indexing. Doesn’t seem very open to me.
Comment by Mads — Wednesday, 04-10-2006 @ 16:35
Very interesting, good insider scoop Jon! Keep it up!
I agree with Mads, that copyright statement is pretty harsh. So this is going to be just another newspaper doing a complete ban in their robots.txt file? Hey wake up - we live in a Google world, like it or not.
Another thing I was wondering about was how they actually allocate specific blogposts to article. Take the Venstre coverstory as an example, how do they know that there are two blogposts on this specific matter? Is this just blogposts from their journalists’ blogs or blogs in general? If the latter part, I find it very hard to believe they can actually track that, unless you need to trackback Nyhedsavisen. And I believe trackbacking has proven to be a great concept, but too much of a hassle for bloggers to really use it. A blog with 1000 comments probably has about 10 trackbacks.
Comment by Jacob Bøtter — Wednesday, 04-10-2006 @ 19:41
Hey Jon,
Congratulations with a real blogger scoop. You’ve gotten your hands on one of our design pages for avisen.dk. It is the page that we showed the journalist from Børsen, and it still has some minor spelling errors, which we have removed yesterday.
The copyright notice was a sediment from an older prototype, which we actually removed last night at 1 am. It was basically copied from another site for user test purposes.
With regards to some of the comments about “trackbacks”: It is true that we will be using trackbacks, but we won’t be calling it trackbacks (too technical). In the beginning we will of course only be able to do this within our own universe but in the future - who knows…
Regards,
Peter Svarre
Project Manager of avisen.dk with Hello Group
Comment by Peter Svarre — Thursday, 05-10-2006 @ 07:31
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the credits! Well, I felt kind of “scoopy” myself when I clicked the “submit”-button
A single note (in order not to be misunderstood): I had the explicit approval from Nyhedsavisen to publish the preview.
Best,
Jon
Comment by Jon Lund — Thursday, 05-10-2006 @ 15:46
Hvad sker der med avisen.dk?
Klokken er 15.25 fredag den 6. oktober, og der er stadig kun blogs og en en enkelt historie på siden.
Comment by Kasper Villum — Friday, 06-10-2006 @ 14:27