Cabbies encouraged to report drug use

The Chinese government has encouraged its citizens to do a lot of things recently in hopes of cleaning up certain aspects of Beijing. For example, cleaning up street litter, fixing “Chinglish” signs and attempting to stop Beijingers from their habit of public spitting. But I just had to blog about one of the other odd [...]

Site critique: newsobserver.com

In honor of my birthday and my last site critique, I decided to critique the local newspaper’s, The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s Web site operations. For some reason, I find the site’s home page to be unappealing. I think it’s because of all of the white background space because visually it doesn’t have that much [...]

Site critique: indystar.com

I decided to head back to the Midwest today to review Indiana’s largest newspaper, The Indianapolis Star’s, Web site. I thought it would be especially interesting since this is the second Gannett newspaper site that I have reviewed (previously I reviewed the Cincinnati Enquirer’s site).
As a first impression, I really liked the blue color palette [...]

Site critique: foxnews.com

For my national broadcast site critique, I decided to step over to the conservative side and look into foxnews.com. I’m not really a tv viewer of them, so I didn’t know what to expect from the Web site. On first glance, the home page was very unappealing to me because it seemed cluttered, and I [...]

Air China expanding flights

Officials at Air China, the 2008 Olympics official carrier, are looking to expand and improve the services offered to customers, according to a report published in the English-language newspaper China Daily. Launched this week, the initiative is looking to hire 300 new attendants and is holding a national recruitment period. Apparently, more than 5,000 people [...]

Site critique: WRAL.com

Raleigh-Durham local tv station Web site wral.com has expanded its tv capacities to include online stories through its Web site. The site’s home page differs from newspaper Web sites that I have frequented because it lacks a dominant image in the left-hand corner. Overall, I don’t think this takes away from the accessibility of the [...]

Site critique: baltimoresun.com

The Baltimore Sun’s Web site is set up visually like many other newspaper sites that I’ve seen. Overall, it’s visually appealing. There is a dominant image in the upper left of the home page with a leading news story and a site navigation tool on the left side of the page. There is also a [...]

More Olympic tickets to go on sale

As of Dec. 10, the second round of Olympic tickets will go on sale, using a lottery system that is similar to the first round, Beijing Olympic Games Committee Organizers announced today. There are about 1.8 million tickets total, but the number still available is unclear because payment was due today from the winners of [...]

Site critique: The Awful Truth

I started to read Ted Casablanca’s blog The Awful Truth on E!online in high school, back in the day when it was updated on a weekly basis. I can remember when he started updating daily just a few years ago; I was shocked at the amount of information available about celebrities at my fingertips (less surprised [...]

Site critique: slate.com

I’ve got to admit that I get most of my news from either traditional print newspapers or their online counterparts. Occasionally I dip into news magazines, but not often. So going to online news magazine salon.com put me in something of unfamiliar territory.
Overall, I enjoyed what I found. My favorite part of the site was [...]