Time Online

Just like I love The New York Times, I also love Time magazine. I don’t think it’s a prestige thing. My vocabulary is all right, but I am far from the erudite New Yorkers that read the Sunday Times book reviews.

            After reading the latest issue of Time at the gym ( I need to personally thank the patron that drops the magazines off and saves me subscription costs), I decided to check out their Web site. I was immediately impressed. In fact, it might be my new first stop for online news. Maybe, I do love the Times.

            The top horizontal navigation bar offers: U.S., World, Blogs, Business & Tech, Health & Science, Entertainment, Multimedia, Magazine and Specials. There was a rotating. There is a prominent rotating photo displaying the top 5 photos with a blurb below on the top right, and on the top left there are the main headlines. Blogs, the poll and the quote of the day are prominently featured below. There are also thumbnails for featured articles. Like most Web sites, time.com has a Most Popular and Most Emailed section. The most popular article today was Facebook: More Popular Than Porn, a blog post I think you would all find humorous. 

            Blogs are a prominent part of time.com. Blog topics range from politics to nerdworld and provide an enjoyable read. Multimedia is also prominently featured. The pull-down menu offers photos, graphics, podcasts, and videos. Time’s photos are, as always, amazing. The rest of it’s multimedia isn’t shabby either.

            However, Time.com does not display a correction policy. I searched but no policy was found. What’s more is there Contact Us is in teeny tiny font at the very bottom of the page. You also had to go through several steps to get to the Feedback section.  They clearly haven’t been doing their Journalism 491 assigned readings.