CU Times goes Web 2.0
Posted by Trey Reeme on June 5th, 2007
Podcasting, tag clouds, usable search: all things I never associated with CU Times – until today.
Welcome to the social web.
Tips:
- Submit the podcast for inclusion in the iTunes Store
- Add comment functionality to the podcast – why not audio comments even?
- On that note, turn the editor’s column into blog
- Deliver daily/breaking news articles (or at least teasers) via RSS
The design is a solid A (a few bugs visible in my browser, though), and adding the other functionality would make it even better.
Reading this post was one of those things that remind me that sometimes, I just don’t get it.
I don’t get why putting podcasts and tag clouds on a site (which, btw, I was unable to link to—it never connected) qualifies as “going Web 2.0”.
As for “usable search”, I’ve seen plenty of sites over the past 5 years that have had that. Why is that Web 2.0?
Yeah, that’s a good call. I think the design is a “web 2.0” feel more than the functionality at this point. The podcast is a Web 2.0 tool as is the tag cloud (which shows up in a search on the site) – and I’ll defer to Wikipedia for the tag cloud qualifying as a Web 2.0 tool -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
The usable search is on its own not Web 2.0. I stuck it in there because the search page (which search on that site altogether is a new feature) now includes the tag cloud.
I’m admittedly not the best headline writer and this one’s another example of why CU Times won’t ever recruit me to be on staff. I’m a blogger not a journalist! ;)
I think it’s pretty nifty. I’m listening to the podcast right now. They get whole concept of episodic, informative content. Going Web 2.0 involves a high level of interactivity with the consumer. After just looking at for a few minutes, it seems like they hit a home run. It’s the publications that are willing to put content online that will survive as print media continues to decline.