According to Wikipedia, The Huffington Post is based out of New York. Why, then, does it have a dedicated page for Chicago news? Being from Chicago, I'd assumed that I had at some point told the site where I was from and it then was targeting me with local stuff. This appears to not be the case - does anyone know if that Chicago page was around before Obama's primary win? - though I think it's a good idea. Considering their fairly dynamic layout and how often they create new Big News pages, I would assume it's relatively painless to create a page that would display all the news that is marked as concerning a certain region.
I don't benefit a ton from the Chicago page - it's mostly national news, anyway, what with President-elect Obama making the city Washington West - but if the site could detect your IP address and automatically deliver you a page with all the stories tagged with the nearest major city, I would think a lot of people would find that helpful.
Friday, December 5, 2008
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