So,Unkie Metro has got itself a blog now. How can we tell it’s a blog rather than just the usual editorial? 1. You can add comments, although no one has yet and 2. They’re suffering from that WordPress bug of a severe lack of paragraphs (like us, occasionally, I must admit). Oh Unkie, you’re so cool and fresh and hip! Xena for Mayor indeed!
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Metro is like, totally down with the kids
04.03.08 | Jo Hubris | 6 Comments
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I don’t think that’s the WP bug – the Metro website is now part of the MSN network (!) and their pages run on Microsoft’s ASP format.
So this can only mean that the giant block of text was caused by a human being not putting in line breaks.
Normally there’d be a subeditor to do that, but since when do blogs get subedited?
but since when do blogs get subedited?
Ahhh, so that’s why the Mainstream Media* is so afraid of bloggers – they fear our l33t [br] skills!
* Eww, I can’t believe that I just said that
Upon further investigation (i.e. I looked at the source code), it appears that the writing is nicely marked up with <p> tags. But I’m guessing that there’s a style sheet that tells the browser to treat a <p> like a single line break, so instead of there being clearly defined paragraphs, it ends up looking like one massive block of text.
But there’s something even weirder going on with that page – there’s an ad in the middle of the article (which is normal) but rather than being neatly placed between paragraphs, the ad is in the middle of a sentence. Specifically, the ad was wedged into “Roger Douglas”. How strange that no one’s spotted it and fixed it.
Oh, I feel like I should also note that I quite like Metro’s website. They’ve done a good job of creating a website that works well with the magazine. Their guides to bars, restaurants and suburbs are particularly useful.
But they need to sort out those weird HTML issues.
I vacillate about Metro. I want to like it but then I’m ashamed of liking it when I do. Is this wrong?
See,that’s the annoying thing about it! Sometimes there are some really really good articles in it, but more often they’re just “schools, houses, let’s all drive” middle age smugness.