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Author Message   D. Moderator Username: Dave Post Number: 5469 Registered: 4-1998 Posted on Friday, March 4, 2005 - 9:39 am:        Looks like someone fired the designers at Newhouse and let the sales staff hit the site with an ugly stick. Only about 12 percent of this page has unsold content and even that portion now is covered for 10 seconds by an ad layered on top of it. Wonder what the next "big idea" is for advertising.   peteglider Citizen Username: Peteglider Post Number: 960 Registered: 8-2002 Posted on Friday, March 4, 2005 - 10:48 am:        ..gives them more revenue for their legal defense fund... but yes, a truly awful page. and to think nj.com was one of the early leaders (maybe first?) in regional web sites. a few weeks ago they were passing out fliers at the train station for the South Orange "section" -- an absolutely miserable thing with (IMO) no worthwhile content on it at all. /p   Nohero Citizen Username: Nohero Post Number: 4403 Registered: 10-1999 Posted on Friday, March 4, 2005 - 11:08 am:        Dave - You should bring your comments to the attention of the guy at this site: http://www.buzzmachine.com/ He's Jeff Jarvis, the president and "creative director" of Advance.net, which runs NJ.com and other regional newspaper sites. He's also interested in all-things-internet, so you may want to tell him about the anti-message board lawsuit.   Dan Shelffo Citizen Username: Openspacer Post Number: 138 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Friday, March 4, 2005 - 12:23 pm:        There is some good South Orange content at NJ.Com: http://www.nj.com/weblogs/southorange/ http://www.nj.com/weblogs/offtheshelf/ and even: http://www.nj.com/weblogs/rosner/   peteglider Citizen Username: Peteglider Post Number: 963 Registered: 8-2002 Posted on Friday, March 4, 2005 - 4:12 pm:        Other than the blogs and forums, which you noted, there is almost nothing South Orange. They try to aggregate content -- just isnt enough! http://www.nj.com/southorange/ /p   Ignatius J Citizen Username: Ignatius_j Post Number: 400 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Friday, March 4, 2005 - 9:21 pm:        This reminds me of an old Onion headline that said "SPORTING EVENT COMPLETELY OBSCURED BY ON SCREEN GRAPHICS"