user experience

Bloglines beta site remains down this morning, victim of an expired and apparently neglected security certificate. Meanwhile, "classic" Bloglines still exhibits the classic problems that led me to try the beta months ago:

• Item refresh counts out of whack
• Showing thousands of old items as new
• Too many visits by the "Bloglines plumber" (outages)

Watch Evansville's courierpress.com site today -- and not just for the likelihood of more severe weather in the southern Ohio Valley, though they get plenty.

No, I refer to a major site redesign; with it, a new user experience architecture. Barring unforeseen delays, it launches today. Update: It went live about 2 p.m. Eastern time.

Links all wishing I had gotten to them sooner:

• No news is no news: Jeff Jarvis' thoughts following a conference on new business models for news.
• Gannett pushes for more tech hires, data centers, niche sites: Mark Glaser interviews Jennifer Carroll, Gannett's vice president for digital content, about the company's Information Center strategy.