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Carlos Diaz, San Juan, Puerto Rico — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:32:52 GMT

Categorically correct; It feels like it's still under my power to cover as much as I want, when I want...

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Bob Pissed — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:36:11 GMT

How about fixing the problems that are already on the site before adding more to the site? Every since your last "upgrade" the scores section has not worked. I have tried selecting my teams "several" times but still a big blank without any scores. Used to work fine before the upgrades...

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Rob Wilkens, Levittown, NY — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:36:46 GMT

Honestly, categorically corect is "good", but if you want to feature exclusive content (I sometimes forget news sites get a lot of content from AP and such), then something like platter 2 is better than platter 1 -- you seem to get more information (it feels) - the big pictures for video clips or whatever aren't terribly useful. I mean, pictures are good, don't get me wrong, but when I'm 'skimming' for something that catches my interest, they kind of get in the way. Pictures for top section headlines are probably appropriate, but for just a list of stories, I don't know that it helps too much. I'm not sure how i feel about, for example, the abcnews.com design where when you hover over a story, pictures show up on the left of the page relating to the story along with related stories -- its nice, but it seems on any one page they have fewer stories than you do, and additionally while they have some 'news summary' pages with lists of stories, they are hard on the eyes. Comparing I think ABCNews has about 10 pages on the front page, and I'd guestimate that msnbc has about 80 (maybe exaggerating, but it feels like a lot more without clicking around).

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Marlene Garside — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:32:19 GMT

I prefer #1 (or better - the way it used to be) a broad sampling - like page 1 of a newspaper -- I want to see all top stories so I can see all the big "news"! Not one category at a time!

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virginia costanzo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:56:12 GMT

Hey...thanks for asking!
I like the catagorically correct version and really use the search feature a lot...especially if the article could be in several areas.
Your site design always rocks, but do you have any influence regarding the loopsided content? Does anyone care, for instance, that MSNBC (tv) was lower in ratings that CNN Headline News? If you guys were more balanced, you could take on FNC, because your web design is infinitely. better.

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bill sprung, wahpeton, nd — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:32:28 GMT

cat. correct is the best of the lot

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Aaron Kipfer, Bluffton, IN — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:34:09 GMT

I, too, prefer #1. One suggestion is to automatically switch between the tabs every 10-15 seconds or so because when skimming, I don't like to have to click on the tabs - lazy, I know.

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Rob Wilkens, Levittown, NY — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:56:17 GMT

To correct myself -- in the last sentence where I said "10 pages on th front page" I meant "10 stories" -- i.e. links to pages. I read what I wrote just now and it sounded funny.

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bedoerr@optonline.net — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:01:56 GMT

I use both the sample platter and the categorically correct on any given day, never know what will strike my fancy
Barbara Doerr, Ronkonkoma NY

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Paul Kucharski Milwaukee WI — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:57:39 GMT

Categorically correct is my preference. I generally want to ignore things I don't care about and don't want it mixed in with things I do care about. When organized categorically I can do that very easily.