Mumbrella live blog: Tuesday, February 25
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6:41pm – Tomorrow we’ll be holding another live video hangout – this time with two of the founders of the Iris agency network Ian Millner and Sam Noble. The pair are in Sydney for a few days and will be talking about building the network over the last 15 years from six people to more around 1,000, and thir vision for brands. You can catch it all on this page from 3pm tomorrow afternoon.
6.35pm – The one and only Clive Palmer has even weighed in the stoush between The Australian and the ABC’s Media Watch (see 2.59pm). Palmer just tweeted:
“Why on earth would you parody a supermarket radio station though…?”
Why not, I say.
Is this Mumbrella Live Blog thing actually working? I’m finding it pretty hard to take in. All the copy kind of blends into one and it’s hard to separate stories. Just my opinion. Take it or leave it.
Hi Ed,
Thanks for taking the time to feedback.
The honest answer is it’s going pretty well, a lot of people are looking at it everyday, and we can see it’s driving people to more stories. It’s also great for giving us a platform to signpost to other worthwhile content from around the web.
It’s definitely not the finished article yet by any means, but something we wanted to try out and we will be experimenting with the layout, design and platform more over the coming weeks. Do stick with it.
When you mention about being hard to separate stories, do you mean the “highlights” section at the top?
We welcome all honest feedback so keep telling us what you think.
Cheers,
Alex, editor, Mumbrella
Glad it’s going well.
Yep, the highlights section is very confusing in my opinion. It’s just big wall of jumbled links. I think they just need to be stacked differently. Maybe listed?
Also the timeline of posts could be separated a little more clearly. Maybe highlighting the times to break up each story?
Punters opinion, good luck with it.
Thanks Ed, that’s good feedback.
We’ll be having a play with the format over the next few weeks, so we’ll be trying a few different things, so please let us know what you think, either either here or email me on alex@focalattractions.com.au.
Cheers,
Alex – Mumbrella