MSNBC.com Continues to Launch New Blogs

Posted on December 3, 2005

MSNBC.com has an interesting sports blog called GR8 Life, which tells the story of NBA rookie Nate Robinson who plays for the New York Knicks. The blog has received some positive reviews. MediaChannel.org reports that MNSBC.com also has a new Iraq blog coming from NBC News called Blogging Baghdad.

NBC News announced Thursday that it is launching a "Blogging Baghdad" platform Dec. 5 that will expand its coverage of the situation in Iraq. Available on MSNBC.com, "Blogging Baghdad" will feature additional reporting from the network's team of correspondents led by Richard Engel, video clips and video blogs from members of the network's Baghdad bureau.

What MSNBC.com does lack is a clear directory of their blogs. MSNBC.com does have a page they call "Blogs Etc."linked from the MSNBC.com homepage but it doesn't list all of the blogs available at MSNBC.com -- the new GR8 Life blog is not there. You will find a link to GR8 Life on the MSNBC.com front page but only if you look very carefully. Maybe they want people to just stumble accross their blogs -- sort of the "buried treasure" approach to web design.

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