StateNewslines.comState by State. News for the Nation.

FAQ: How Often are Headlines Updated?

2008-08-26T20:03:00.004-04:00

StateNewslines is a quick, convenient way to stay current with all the news in your state. Many users have asked how current are the news headlines?

More than 90% of the news sources we monitored are updated each hour. You’ll see a small timer underneath each news source showing you how long it has been since the last update.

It takes a fair amount of processing time and bandwidth to search, parse and aggregate these public headline links for you - so we’ve set the maximum threshold for updates to one hour. If you need even more current news - simply click on the name of the news source and it will take you directly to the content provider where all the latest news is posted.

Several publishers such as weekly newspapers and many magazines are updated less frequently. In those cases, we run a daily search aggregation to look for new news articles and update your news page daily for those publishers.

FAQ: Can I View Past Headline History?

2008-08-26T19:44:00.006-04:00

Many users have said when they are away for a few days, that it’s sometimes difficult to quickly catch up on past news. Our main screen just shows the most recent 15 articles from each news publisher in your state. For some publishers that might just be a few hours of stories, others a day or even a week's worth of news.

Now you can click on the ‘See More Headlines’ link next to the title of the news source or after the list of headlines. You'll get a quick, concise look at the that particular publisher's past news.

We work to index the main/most popular sections of many publishers. This is a great way to ‘look back’ at past news. We hope you enjoy this new feature.

Many users have said its a convenient feature that is greatly appreciated and helps them save time when catching up with some of their favorite news sources after being away for a while.

Remember too, that most publishers show their articles published in their free sections of the site for a little while. Often after a few days or a couple weeks - then the publisher moves their articles into registered areas or even paid archive areas.

We reference the link of the original article which usually gets you right to the article or the archive for the story.

FAQ: Planned Clipping / Media Monitoring Service Planned

2008-08-26T19:33:00.007-04:00

Right now this is absolutely the most requested premium paid feature. (Now available 2008)

Presently, you can freely search through headlines using the search box at the top of the site. You then see the the headlines (not the body text) that contain your keyword and get a link to where the article was originally posted on the news source.

(Feb 07) The clipping service will enhance this by also searching the byline of the articles as well as the first portion of the article text. We plan to have the initial version of the clipping service available in couple months days.

There are over 45 national clipping services that will do a great job when you need to clip news from major news sources nationwide. They are also fairly expensive. We plan to offer a solution that's more affordable and priced per state - and you can just purchase what you need.

The difference with our clipping / media monitoring service is that we will offer substantially more depth within any particular state. Our goal is to track 100-200+ news sources in each state.

Another difference is, that since we only search news articles that are posted online, it's very responsive to breaking news. Each morning you can receive an email with links to news source articles that contain the keywords you are interested in tracking.

Visit any of our state sites and click on Media Monitoring to add your name to our notification list. We’ll keep you posted when the service goes online. And we’ll also be looking for a group of users to help with some early user testing and feedback. We always appreciate your input and feedback.

Thanks for the Feedback

2008-08-26T19:30:00.002-04:00

Thanks to everyone for the great feedback that has been shared with us over the past couple months, the header and navigation menus to the site have been updated. Now they are higher contrast, easier to see and use. Included are now links back to the national site. We hope you enjoy the new design and layout.

As always - thank you for your continued readership, interest and most of all your feedback on how to continually improve the properties and make them easier to use and enjoy. We understand that you have invited us to become part of your daily news reading experience and we take that responsibility seriously.

Our goal is to provide you every time-saving convenience when it comes to letting you see all your state news on a single, easy-to-use web page.

Let us know how we are doing anytime by emailing us at feedback@statenewslines.com.

Flashback: Original Logo

2008-08-26T19:23:00.005-04:00

Here is a flashback looking at the orginal (back of the napkin) logo. This is of course before we found a great graphic designer and a trademark attorney :-)

Startup Logo:

Post Graphic Designer/Trademark Attorney :-)

Looking back at the Launch

2008-08-26T19:10:00.001-04:00

Here's a snapshot of when we first launched with the original 10 states... Wow! The service has come a long way very quickly. I'll continue to recap some of the prior blog posts so that everything is fresh and current on this new blog.

Welcome to StateNewslines.com

2008-08-26T19:05:00.002-04:00

Welcome to a new day - a day where all of your state’s local news is quickly and easily available to you on one single web page. A day where you can save time by quickly scanning your state’s news headlines and find links to news headlines and articles of interest.

StateNewslines is a news headline indexing and aggregation service - exclusively focused on creating statewide, interactive media properties that pull together an entire state’s business, sports, and local news into one easy-to-use webpage.

We've the national website www.statenewslines.com to help everyone easily navigate to any state news website they would like to use. As a companion to the corporate website, we’re providing this interactive weblog, blog.statenewslines.com where we can publicly share information with you as the service expands nationwide.

Feel free to share with us your thoughts, ideas and any comments. We appreciate your suggestions that help us make each of these interactive state media properties as useful as possible to you. We look forward to hearing from you.

Most sincerely ~ the team at StateNewslines.com

First Post on New Blogger Weblog

2008-08-21T22:30:00.002-04:00

Just getting everything transferred over to Blogger. I'm looking forward to the posting, sharing, connecting and communicating with everyone to be a great deal easier to manage and administer.

We'll move some of the important posts from the previous weblog back over here so that everything is in one place. Thanks for all the feedback during our launch. It's been fantastic to have such an enthusiastic response to the team's hard work.

More to follow.
~ All the best, Paul