Live Wire

I'm testing a new service from the Associated Press that posts live updates from the wire service. I have two pages set up so far, one for Alabama news and one for national and international news. If the test goes well (and it has so far), I will create pages for sports, business, religion and possibly other news categories.

The news on these pages is updated continuously, so as soon as AP has a story, you can read it.

I don't know yet how this will affect the afternoon update, Since This Morning. The AP service rarely has local stories for this area unless they come from The Star to begin with. Whenever we have breaking local news we'll put it online as soon as we can, so the afternoon update may become unnecessary.

I would like to know your thoughts to the AP news feed and how it compares to Since This Morning. E-mail me or post a comment here.

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AP also makes some cool interactives available with this service. Two that moved this week are a Flash graphic called Fighting in the Streets and a photo gallery from the war. I have included links to both in the list that appears at the bottom of stories in the At War In Iraq section of The Anniston Star Online site. Click News, then look at the links in the left menu. At War in Iraq is the last link in the News section.