ljworld.com

So this was more of a site I was expecting to review, unlike buzzmachine.com. This site was a lot more news heavy than that last one. Even though, like I mentioned several times before I don't like newsy sites, but it beats blogs!

This site offered a lot of the same features as Lawrence.com, maybe because the two are related to one another. This site featured loads of entertainment news, like drink specials, places to eat, where to go bar hopping, both music and movies, travel, and even webcams (that was something I don't remember on lawrence.com). As far as real news related topics, ljworld.com offered the standard sections: local news, weather, school news, crime, state/regional news, obituaries, births, weddings, podcasts, photos, and many more.

This site was very much like all the others, however there were features that separated them. One of those features was under the news section there was a section called Most E-Mailed Discussions Stories and Most Active Discussions. Under the first of the two, it discusses recent stories that have appeared on the site within the past 12 hours. I like this feature a lot because it gives people the chance to catch up on news they may have missed or may not have paid attention to. And what's good about this is that it says it is updated every 10 minutes. Talk about on top of the news! As for the second of the two mention sections, being curious I poked around and found out that these are stories that have appeared on the site, however have readers comments...almost like a message board.

There is so much stuff featured on this site. And as much as it could be a good thing, it could also be a bad thing. For me, it was overwhelming. I didn't know what to check out first. I also think that with all that offered information it may make it harder for readers to find one particular thing that they may be looking for. Because of that I think it could really turn people off.

As for multimedia, I think it's no more or no less than lawrence.com. It offered podcast, which seem to be all the craze now, it offered music downloads/mp3s, it offered videos, message boards, blogs, and all the stuff that goes along with multimedia and keeping in touch with everyone else around you.

I think this site really works...at least it wasn't a blog!