E-Media Tidbits

The Post-Star The Post-Star clarifies its geographic location on every page.

In a comment to my earlier post about obits at the Orlando Sentinel, Mike Peterson of The Post-Star made this good suggestion:

"Maybe a list of clueless Web site atrocities might be an interesting exercise."

It would be a damn long list.

But I'm game for starting it. I'll post one today, and more now and again as the spirit moves me. I'm encouraging other Tidbits contributors to do the same. I suspect we could develop quite a thread of "Online Pet Peeves" for news sites.

Here's one from me. My pet peeve: Hitting a newspaper (or other geographic) site that leaves me wondering "Where the heck am I?"

Mike's site handles this right. It says "Glens Falls, New York" right at the top of the page. (And it's smart to say "New York" instead of "N.Y." -- lots of international visitors don't recognize state abbreviations.)

That's my pet peeve (for today -- I have plenty more where that one came from). Yours? Please comment below, or e-mail contributions to Tidbits editor Amy Gahran.