Time.com - Courtney Hall, Claudia Flores

associated with CNN (partnership)

2. A Diamond discovered in the South Africa nation of Lesotho naming it one of the largest quality diamonds found. The 478-carat diamond beats out its past competitors who's carats that were much more larger in carats ranging from 603 carats to 493 carats.

Above is a clip from the movie "Blood Diamond".

Small sized article, story placed under “Latest Headlines”, two images posted of a 478-carot white diamond, 20th largest rough, unearthed diamond.



McCain a lying brute? Trying to win this presidentional election McCain brings out the gloves against Obama. His campaign has been firing false accusations on his oponent's character and even his policies. Perhaps playing dirty could lead to his downfall?

It's a longer article, story placed under “Election ‘08”, one image illustration of McCain, Also links to campaign trial pictures of both McCain and Palin at the end of story. Article on Lies, deception, politics, also filed under most read, popular searchers on the right hand side of front page.

Russian Teenkillakillakilla

Moderate article not very long, listed under “Latest Headlines”. Moscow story about 12 teenage boys and an older man who made some brutal ethnic attacks, including the murder of chess champion who was a member of Russia's Yakut ethnic group. There are no pictures or video available although attacks were apparently videotaped.

3. Time.com does indeed provide a list of the most popular articles and also the most emailed articles. The difference between these side articles and the featured article, is that these articles are less important and much older in date compared to the current and most important featured article. For instance lets take this article, Meet Dave, the Man Who Never Takes Out the Trash , most popular. Really, I bet if you were just scanning through these articles you would probaly think that this guy is nasty and weird because I know I would. Also topping off the most e-mailed which we find pretty interesting is the article What Happens When We Die?



4. Yes, they incorporate journal style blogs which readers can comment on.

Technology »

The 'Google Phone': A Challenge to the iPhone?
By Anita Hamilton

Travel

50 Authentic American Experiences
By Reed Tucker


Swampland: Politics

Obama and McCain on the Bailout: You First!
By Jay Carney

Tuned In: Entertainment

Schoolhouse Rock and the Election
By James Poniewozik

5. TIME.com does incoporate reader comments and other features:

1 Interact with this story

2 Find related stories

3 People who read this also read

6. In the entertainment section, there is a link that offers a wide variety of video clips which include: Newest Videos, U.S. and World related videos, Business & Tech, Global Business, and Health & Science.

Newsweek.com

Jenna Condit, Courtney Cooper, Natalie Couling, Sarah Crowe


Top Headlines
A. The Boomerang Effect-"What's wrong with McCain's Wall Street Attacks?

            -The "Boomerang Effect" headline appears big and bold as part of a
headline slide-show. The article itself is about how presidential
candidate John McCain has been making statements criticizing his
opponent Barack Obama in hypocritical ways. The video which is attached
to the article shows several members of team Obama being referred to in
negative ways, all approved by John McCain.


B. The Captain of the Street- What they got away with.

    -The "Captain of the Street" headline is the cover story of the Newsweek
magazine currently on stands and shows a picture of what the cover looks
like. The article talks about several big time CEO's who have
manipulated their businesses for their own personal benefit. The article
is layed out as a slide-show stating who the CEO is, what corporation
they represent, and what they got away with.












C. Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor gets 15 to life

    -This particular headline was located under the "Latest Headlines" at
the center of the website. The article is about the recent re-conviction
of a woman in California whose dogs killed a neighbor in their apartment
complex in 2001. The woman was previously charged with involuntary
manslaughter however that was overturned and recently changed=2
0from a 4 year sentence to a 15 to life sentence.

Question: Does the site offer a list of the most popular or most emailed articles?

3. Answer: Yes, the site offers a list of the most viewed and most emailed articles.
The most viewed and emailed articles differ little from the front page articles; in
fact, a few are front page stories. Most are about the '08 presidential campaign and
candidates and the current financial crisis

Question: To what extend does the site incorporate journal- style blogs?

4. Answer: Newsweek has blogs written by its columnists and commented by readers.
Each columnist has his/her own blog to which they post.

Question: Does this site incorporate reader comments or have discussion boards?

5. Yes. Newsweek.com does incorporate reader comments and has discussion boards
available to subscribed users under the tab Voices at the top of the page.

Question: To what extent does the site incorporate multimedia
such as video or audio clips?
6. Video clips are available on the homepage of Newsweek.com as well as under the
tab Voices. Here is the link that will take you to the video page under Voices.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/94721#?l=1785302026&t=1805597177

ABCNEWS.COM - Bobby Lewis, Christina Linehan

Top Three Stories

1. The Emmy's: When we first entered the page, this was the first story shown on the "story slide show." The headline pictures contain the big winners of the night. When you click on the article it shows pictures of the night with a short story of what happened.

2. Wall Street Bailout: Actually listed on the site as the top headline (Bush Goes to Bat for Executive Salaries, Discourages 'Punitive' Measures) along with a picture in the same slide show as the Emmy's picture. The article summarizes the "debate" between Bush and Congress regarding Federal assistance and the current financial crisis.

3. SC Learjet Crash: Also listed as a top headline. It shows pictures of the crash site and the plane as well as lists the celebrities involved, but does not emphasize the actual deaths.

This site does not offer a list of the most popular or most e-mailed articles.

This site incorporates a journal-style blog through what the site refers to as a "Featured Discussion." In this particular story by ELISABETH LEAMY ABC NEWS Consumer Correspondent, she discusses paying off debt. The bloggers are typically regular people. There is also a message board link at the bottom of the page. This link takes you to a page with various postings on various topics that viewers are free to comment on.

On the message board link, viewers can actually start their own discussions as well as comment on stories and other postings.

This site incorporates a plethora of multimedia content. Almost every story has a picture to go along with it on the homepage of the site. Viewers are also given the opportunity to watch many video clips.

The New York Times 9/22/08

2. The story "Stocks drop on lingering fears about Wall St. Rescue" is at the top of the page with the largest font. The story is about lingering anxiety about the largest government bailout in history. The next story is entitled "Crude Oil Prices Up More Than 16$". It is featured right below the first story with a slightly smaller font. The story is about the spiking of oil prices. The third story is called " Bush Urges Democrats to Act Quickly on Bailout". It is featured to the right of the first story with a significantly smaller font. It is about the President urging Democrats to act quickly on the bailout.

3. The page does feature a most popular segment, it is at the top of the page with the other tabs. The most popular tab consists of most e-mailed, most blogged, most searched, and the most popular video. The stories differ from the ones on the home page because they are enduring popular stories such as coverage on Sarah Palin or the price of gasoline. The stories on the home page are the more up to date stories, as they post new ones very frequently. Here it is.

4. They do incorporate blogs. They incorporate specialists on any given topic, and editorial columnists as well. They have a very large variety of blogs to choose from, with topics ranging from Baseball to the Arts to Energy. The Blog Index Arts Blog Bats

5. They incoporate comments over to the right side of the home page. Users are allowed to comment on opinion posts. These are op-ed pieces that range over a wide variety of topics with readers able to comment on them. Registration is required in order to comment.

6. The site incoporates multimedia to some extent, they have a video section. The videos are divided into channels ranging over certain topics. The videos show up in a player provided on the site, in a youtube-style format. Here are the videos



-Matthew Scherer, Robert Uribe, Robert Stephens, Daniel Schorlemmer

Group 2 CSMONITOR.COM

csmonitor.com

GROUP MEMBERS

James Briones
Jack Carlson
Blayne Center
Alyssa Cevallos

The biggest picture on the page is of Barrack Obama. It's placed on the top left corner so it's the first thing you would see when you read it. It's saying how the financial crisis is shifting the campaign towards his favor. To win back the favor McCain need to cast votes on the Bush administration plan.

The second picture is smaller but in the middle right after the Obama story. It's a picture of Treasury chief Paulson. The article is bascially talking about the Bush administration's bailout strategy and how Paulson will temporariliy oversee the entire financial system after they bail out most of the banks.

There isn't a picture for the third article but it's headline is right below the second article so our eyes are drawn right to it. The article is talking about the whole situation of Guantánamo Bay and the rights of the prisoners.

This web page doesn't offer a list of the most popular or most emailed articles.

This site incorporates many styles of blogging but mainly journalistic and not public. Here is an example of a blog posted on this page about the Environment, and another linka about Innovation

The articles did not have disussion boards, but the Blogs did.

The site gives a fair amount of multimedia content.

US News... US Snooze

Lindsey Abel

Brandon Arnold

Shawn Blair

Kathy Bowman

2. Top Stories

• Best Places to Retire
  

This Article lays out ten of the best places to retire in America. It features a video of the amazing, stylistic water dancing of the "Aquabelles." Placed front-and-center on the homepage, this article seems to be the most important story in the US News. It was definitely the first thing we noticed.

• Crisis on Wallstreet
  

Placed on the right side of the page, this is section includes many articles about America's financial crisis like the $700 billion bailout. This section is much more in-depth and has links  to many podcasts and videos.

• Afraid of Heights? Try Skydiving. 

This is an article written by a women explaining the fears and experiences involved in skydiving. Includes a photo and six comments from readers agreeing that skydiving is quite an experience and perhaps the best way for the elderly to finally get over their fears of heights.

3. Most Popular Articles

The site offers both a list of the top 5 most popular and most e-mailed articles. There is no link to the list, however it is visible on the front page of the site. The "most viewed" articles focus on politics and the economy, while the "most emailed" focus on health and editorials.

4. Blogs

There is an extensive page for blogs, mostly from reporters and editors. All of the blogs are organized by the author of the blog, or the subject. The page would probably best be used to browse around when readers get bored, but it doesn't seem like specific blogs could be found very easily.

5. Opinions

Most of the opinion articles and editorials are staff writers expressing their opinions on different issues. There are some links to reader commentaries, but not many people comment on the articles.

Political cartoons are always a nice way to break up the boredom:

Readers are also able to leave comments after articles, but there are few specific reader discussion boards, and there doesn't seem to be any heavy debates between readers at all. 

6. Multimedia

Videos, photos, and podcasts are all available and easily accessable, but many are of poor quality and not very cool. It is very simple to imbed any US News article to any number of different platforms like facebook.com or ma.gnolia.com, so that's nice.

P. Diddy on Sarah Palin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow8_pCPfhDk

Some of you may have seen this already, but I thought I would share anyways...
It's hilarious and sad at the same time, but also a perfect example of how celebs use media outlets to get there message, idiotic or not, out there. Enjoy...