Tt post oct 28, 2015 - media

Thanks for the detailed info, foodie88.

I'm with you on the number of cluttered, bloated, and wretched media websites that are horrible user experiences.

Again, I prefer simply-designed article pages.
http://toledotalk.com/last-alarm.html

For a homepage, I prefer single column streams of content or "rivers." I only need an excerpt of each post.

Something like this Toledo Talk page, which is accessing and displaying info from the Blade's local news RSS feed.
Toledo Blade local news feed - (It's not accounting for the extended ASCII chars though.)

Here is the RSS feed for that page. It's local news. It does not contain columns nor op-eds.
http://www.toledoblade.com/rss/local

On a desktop/laptop computer and on my phone, I open stories in separate browser tabs.

Here are the titles of the stories that currently exist in the Blade's local news RSS feed.

• Tasmanian devil trio greets first guests - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Central Toledo crash injures 2 - 2015-10-28T16:29:35Z
• 3 candidates provide medical history - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• ProMedica breaks ground for new Toledo HQ - 2015-10-28T16:14:17Z
• Power outage closes 2 W. Toledo schools - 2015-10-28T11:41:06Z
• Circus adds Xtreme entertainment - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• The Blade, WTVG-TV host debate - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Jamie Farr collapses on set - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Toledo school board: No pay raises for teachers - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Firewood supply to be slim - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Toledo man shot in the central city today - 2015-10-28T14:29:04Z
• Sylvania Schools to induct 10 - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Toledo police only responding to injury crashes - 2015-10-28T13:21:04Z
• MBT profit higher in 3rd quarter - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• O-I earnings tumble - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Council OKs trash pact - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Disabled truck slowing I-75 traffic near Haskins - 2015-10-28T11:49:53Z
• $1B bond issue for algae in works - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Event to benefit Humane Society - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z
• Kenneth Kujawa: 1947-2015; Lawyer a co-owner of business in B.G. - 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

The Blade offers other RSS feeds:

http://www.toledoblade.com/rsslinks

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