Bakersfield.com has tweaked its homepage. The changes are smart and logical improvements to the previous design. The newsroom has been hitting multimedia hard and the changes play MM well. The main multimedia page is also vastly improved — great, logical organization. As part of Bakersfield.com’s increased multimedia efforts, they’ve started putting video on verticals, such as real estate (a must-do for newspaper sites that I advocated in Ventura). Here’s an example: A tour of Buck’s old house (just blocks from where I live now). Due credit, of course.
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Howard Owens is a digital media pioneer. He started publishing local news online in 1995 when very few local news outlets had web sites. The header image on the site depicts the film camera he used early in his career and the press pass from his year on the staff of the Carlsbad Journal. For more on Howard's professional background, read his LinkedIn profile.
HowardOwens.com is the personal web site of Howard Owens and covers his range of interests -- political localism and libertarianism, music and personal interests, as well as his professional interests.
Howard is currently publisher of The Batavian and lives in Batavia, N.Y.
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