And Finally … Online

Aunty have launched a new section of the BBC News website, it’s a sort of mix of the oddball stories from across the rest of News Online - it includes a mix of audio/video/text and photo content.

It’s called Also in the News but could easily have been called And Finally… after the classic news story that goes out on TV or radio at the end of the main bulletin.

It’s a nice idea and a great way of quickly finding the quirky stories that usually end up at the top of the most e-mailed or most viewed widget that sits at the bottom of the right hand menu on news pages.

The stories featured this morning include ‘Trafalgar Square Green with Turf’, ‘Captive Shark had Virgin Birth’ and ‘Museum offered Head for Shrinking’.

It’s the stories you tell you mate about down the pub, the stories the breakfast radio presenter hunts out to fill the ‘gap’ between news items, reports and features - it’s the stories that make the Digg homepage.

It’s a nice idea and will probably now feature on every major newspaper site. Another up for Aunty and something that would be so easy and cheap to implement.

I have to say - I also prefer the long page style as well - it has the items in a list instead of in boxes next to each other - then it has a more traditional archive section with boxes underneath that.

It’s almost as if they’ve used a ‘page’ template from their CMS to create the index instead of a traditional index template (see weather pages on BBC Where I Live sites).

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