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Hooray! Looks like the ugly duckling of blog news sites is now a veritable swan. Ken Yarmosh emailed me about the much-needed facelift to the blog news site Blogniscient, as well as some new features which differentiate the site from established rivals Memeorandum and Digg. It looks like Blogniscient is aiming squarely at non-tech users by expanding its coverage beyond the narrow topics of tech and politics. From Ken's blog post:
The first item we tackled was the appearance of Blogniscient. Many users found the site extremely useful but visually unappealing. After presenting several design options from my network of contacts, Blognsicient decided to go with a small but talented group by the name of Subbu Agency.
The real selling point of Blogniscient is the breadth of its coverage, including categories like Sports and Entertainment. As seen in the interview, Ben has a grand vision for what Blogniscient’s reach may look like one day. After he bounced some ideas off of me, he decided to expand Blogniscient’s coverage to two new areas - Venture Capital and Poker. These are subcategories of Business and Sports respectively and are two areas with a great amount of interest outside of the blogosphere.