Thursday, April 15, 2010

Good and bad use of video online

Good: Boston Herald

The Boston Herald competes with the Boston globe as Boston's two largest newspapers and I would say the herald does a better job than the Globe. The Herald has its own video section readily accessible from the homepage. The video quality looked almost amateurish, with the few videos I sampled all having a first shot describing what the video is. However, I can look past this flaw and was pleased with the way they organized the video content.

Bad: Boston Globe

The Boston globe seemed to lack a video section, which made locating video content a bit of a challenge. I only found video when I looked at a story, and even then it was not immediately clear what the video content was, I first thought it was a photo. After clicking on a few video tabs I eventually found a multimedia page with several videos. Honestly, the video quality seemed similar to the Herald, the biggest problem with the globe is if I cannot locate the videos, I can not view them!

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