July 31st, 2007
10:40 AM ET
All about...

...oh, everything. Topic pages, one of my favorite features introduced in the relaunch, can be found at the top of every page of CNN.com and sprinkled contextually throughout the site. Compiling as many as 100 news stories on a particular topic, we now have more than 100,000 of them and counting. Topic pages allow the editors and staff at CNN.com to package and present more of the daily coverage that we produce, on more topics of interest to more of our users. RSS feeds are available for each, too, whether you're following Michael Vick's dogfighting charges, the shocking revelations at NASA or Lindsay Lohan.

Even if your news tastes are more, say, specific, we have a niche for you. Are you tracking news on Nuts and Edible Seeds? Need the latest on Texas Hold-em? (Even we were surprised how robust that coverage is.) You can also check out the popularity of particular topics in the Most Popular module on the mosaic pages, and we do! We expect our Hot Topics navigation to reflect the news of the day and the conversations of the day, as well.

So much more exciting content is ahead in future phases of the relaunch, as we focus now on our in-depth coverage and the topics that will keep our attention for weeks and months ahead. Up next, we look forward to presenting some of CNN's best reporting from Christiane Amanpour in God's Warriors, further developing our coverage of the 2008 presidential race in the Election Center and expanding our comprehensive presentation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Look for these – and others – on the Topics page, and let us know what you'd like more on!

Posted by: Jennifer Pangyanszki, Supervising Producer - jpangyanszki
Filed under: Content • Technology • Topics


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July 31st, 2007
3:24 pm ET
 

I really like the look of the relaunched website – great job! However, I still have the same frustration I had with the old website: Most of the videos do not have an accompanying written article. I find this really frustrating since I generally do not want to watch a video, but I am still interested in the news. Your site would be perfect if this were included!
Thanks!

Posted by: Literate Male
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July 31st, 2007
4:33 pm ET
 

Nothing compares to the AOL news page

Posted by: likeAjoeMama
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August 22nd, 2007
11:04 am ET
 

I like the topics at the top as well, but why have Hot Topics and More Topics both listed if they take you to same thing?

Posted by: Jeff K
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February 14th, 2008
12:32 am ET
 

The Gov. of Pennsylvania owes the American people an apology for his racial comment about America not being ready for a black president. The fact he is a huge supporter of Hillary does not help. I saw him on Fox news trying to get out of what he said. We can't let him off the hook. We have enough racism in America without him fueling the fire. He owes Obama an apology as well. I am a White American who jusrt wants us all to live in peace, silly me right.

Posted by: Larry from LA
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