New New West
New West has a newly redesigned homepage.
They continue to do a nice job blurring the boundaries between newsroom journalism and web2.0 formats like blogs and user-generated content. The latest version is more consciously built around aggregation — of their own stories, and of user comments and contributions — blended nicely together and presented seamlessly.
It also includes a very nicely done custom headline roll powered by Newsgator that is very intuitive and never mentions the letters RSS. I’ve embedded Courtney’s full tour below UPDATE: not embedded ’cause it breaks my blog - go see it here.
While admittedly I’m not unbiased, I think New West is doing a great job pushing the medium in ways that leverage but take the geekiness out of the technologies we’re all convinced will transform mainstream media. Plenty of other newspapers and online media outlets could learn a thing or two from them.
Congrats to all my friends at New West! Readers, if you’ve never visited, check them out.
