Blogging Metronews aka Metro Vancouver Part 1
By Roland Tanglao on March 18, 2005 - 2:25am
Part 1 of my informal, irregular series on the new Vancouver free paper: Metronews.
I agree with ejohnlove: it seems like a 2 page Vancouver Sun summary (plus lots of generic non Vancouver content) without any soul.
And the website is more evidence that this is really a Toronto paper (even though Metronews is part of a world wide empire of daily papers run by a Swedish company in partnership with some Canadian papers). It has the Toronto weather forecast and Toronto keywords (how 1999, doesn't Metronews know that search engines don't care about meta tags?)!. How about having a Vancouver website, say at vancouver.metronews.ca with an RSS feed, prominent Vancouver content and the Vancouver weather forecast?
