Times Online WBLG oddity

Martin Belam
Written by Martin Belam
Published 27 June, 2007
Categories: Blogging, Media, Newspapers, The Times

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Whilst I was doing my recent survey of the Web 2.0 features on British newspaper websites I spotted one or two quirks which I wanted to highlight.

The Times has a very curious approach to putting titles to their blog feeds. For some reason, as well as the bizarre CSS in their recent redesign, it seems someone decided they needed to append 'WBLG' to the title of every weblog.

20070606_times-WBLG.gif

Occasionally I spotted the odd variation where weblog was written out in full - but these looked like hangovers in Bloglines from a previous feed address.

20070606_times-WBLG-old.gif

Very odd.

This article is part of a series looking at the Web 2.0 features on British newspaper web sites. It features reviews of the Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.

There are also overviews of some of the "Web 2.0" features each newspaper provides. These cover social bookmarking links, blog features, RSS feeds and the location of RSS feed information.

Posted by Martin Belam, June 27, 2007
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