"ABC is the only major broadcast network that is using the staff of its evening newscast to produce a separate and distinct daily program for a Web audience," a New York Times feature reports today. Among the differences from the broadcast show: More casual correspondents, plus longer back-and-forths between anchor and reporter that would be cut to seven seconds on cable. But ABC's online clips are shackled by two Web video blunders.

First, the site's layout is a mess. Without either a strong narrative thread or a tidy navigational hierarchy, it's too easy to get lost among the overly busy pages. Worse, ABC's videos aren't easily — if at all — embeddable. For all the news crew's hard work, surfers won't discover the Web-only segments on their favorite blogs. ABC seems to expect us to come to abcnews.com and click around for clips. How very 1.0.

Contact information for this author is not available.