New Online P-I Hasn't Cured Leprosy Yet

Online media is ready to eat its young, we see. Paul Constant, Glenn Nelson, and Chuck Taylor have reviews in on the new, online-only Seattle P-I and it's mostly thumbs down. Each of them seems to think the move to an online platform was a planned transition, and that there should have been some "reinvention" to wow everyone on Day One. Our sense was that thanks to Hearst's poker skills, no one at the P-I was sure until a few days ago that they even had jobs, let alone what they were. Someone was working on a simple, clean mobile interface, but a site redesign had to be out of the question.

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By MvB in Miscellaneous on March 18, 2009 2:25 PM

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rjh

Paul Constant insists on continuing to comment on things technical, of which he has displayed no understanding whatsoever.

That said, the P-I doesn't have a lot of time to get it right before readers lose interest. The design is one thing, but there's precious little there to read. I never read their billions of reader blogs before (except the Bus Chick, who's very cool), and I have no interest in starting now. And the rest is a few blog entries and lots of links (on that I do agree with Constant; the big globs of blue do nothing to make me want to follow any of those hundreds of links).

sciencevsromance

I love how all of these people (1) think a major overhaul could've been done overnight and (2) forget that the "ugly" Seattle P-I homepage was incredibly well-trafficked before they stopped printing a paper.