Well the Des Moines Register entered the online-blog-youth-market with a new, currently online only, publication today. As I mentioned before,
Juice, is geared toward the already consolidating free weekly reader market. We’ll see if the MSM can be successful at being alternative.
So far the layout and design is just as crappy as DesMoinesRegister.com. Don’t they know anything about making things clean and letting the reader’s eyes relax on some whitespace.
Initially the blogs on their site suck. The writers share too much of their personal life with us. I don’t care where they are at midnight or what they’re discussing with friends at the bar.
The site really just needs one thing to make it great: BorsellinoBlog