First, a very brief introduction is in order. My name is Chris Philips, the newest member to the news writing force on Team Pokerfuse. Along with taking on some of the news, I’m also tasked with running this new pokerfuse blog.
The blog is a new corner of the website where we can keep the readers up to date with the latest goings-on at pokerfuse itself: new features, updates, new members to the team and all that jazz. It’s a place where we can talk about the meta-subjects of running an online poker news website and magazine, and somewhere our readers can give us feedback in the comments.
Today we have rolled out a site update that brings a lot of new features. The one we are most excited about is a whole new way for us to bring you the latest news: you’ll see this under “latest headlines” on the homepage.
These short-form articles will allow us to greatly increase our coverage on the website, and report the news as it happens. Our goal is for pokerfuse to offer a complete picture of online poker; and the more concise format will allow us to keep you up to date with multiple stories daily.
But let me stress that this won’t affect our current long-form news articles; these will continue just as before and will always feature prominently. When a story is breaking, we can make sure our readers are up to date with a brief headline and story; as the story develops, we can bring you more detail and insight with a traditional news article of the high-quality you’ve come to expect from the 'fuse.
In a nutshell, we hope to offer you all more breadth without compromising the depth.
That’s not the only change. We’ve also rolled out news tags to categorize the news stories. On every story now you’ll see them listed under the “read more on” heading. So you can now browse news by poker site – say, news on Full Tilt or PokerStars – by topic – like Black Friday or Blue Monday, or geographically – Nevada, UK – and more.
And below the tags you may also have noticed that we’ve started to introduce an “external resources“ section on news articles now (see the recent Jamie Gold story for an example). This gives us a space to link to original sources or external information that relates to the news article, without cluttering up the body text with links or footnotes.
What do you think? Like the new changes? Please leave me a comment below if you have any feedback. Also, if you have any ideas for future blog posts – maybe you have questions about pokerfuse, industry queries, if you are wondering about the tech behind the website – just let me know!
