Day two of the Online News Association’s conference has had, at least for me a much more engaging set of panels and conversations, starting with Holovaty’s through to integrating interactives into the site (which featured a tremendously strong panel). The day closes with what is dubbed the “Superpanel;” after is the ONA awards.

What has become increasingly clear is that, despite the long-standing trend, some news organizations in Canada (I’m looking at you globeandmail.com), are in fact ahead of many U.S. sites. The lessons we have learned are now being discovered by many major sites, including USA Today. In fact, my general sense, is that the online news industry is ignoring the entire blog/Web 2.0 world (except to look at in fear), and, as a result, are missing a lot of the lessons and user experience conventions many Web users have learned over the past few years.