The Bivings Group, a Washington, DC-based Internet communications firm released a list of the Top 10 Newspaper Websites on their blog, The Bivings Report. They judged sites on their web features as well as design, aesthetics and usability.
(1) New York Times: We love the general feeling of the NYT site, which is pleasing to [...]
From a recent article by Tim Rutten on LA Times.com, “Newspapers are changing to suit reader’s tastes,” he laments the lack of quality news programming on cable and network news, but holds out hope that newspapers can make the transition back to their roots rather than fall prey to the type of programming we see [...]
This is a great piece on aging and sexuality called “Never too old.” Good editing, narration, and sound. I love the way StoryBridge.tv has taken a sensitive topic in a not so exciting venue (classroom) and made it riveting. I showed this in my visual communication class the other day and the students raved about [...]
The Online Journalism Review just published a five step guide for website usability testing that can gauge readers’ reactions to multimedia projects and website design. A very solid guide to making sure that what you produce actually reaches and communicates with your audience.
OJR’s ‘five guide’ to do-it-yourself website usability testing
Use these steps, and these forms, [...]
I haven’t used online video editors before but JayCut’s flash uploader was easy to use and supported video, photo, and audio in multiple formats. To add clips, music, transitions, or effects to the time line I just placed them into the editor. Once the files were uploaded they were converted to flash for the editor [...]
American Journal, an online magazine published monthly by American Journal Publishing, has some great content. They are also always looking for more. This would be another outlet for stories that may have been sidelined in some way, but that you want to still present to a major audience. The one thing I didn’t see was [...]
From Josh Cantone at Read/Write Web, Buffalo Rising is quickly becoming one of the more successful hyperlocal media sites, with more than a 10% growth rate each month. Their site is very well designed and uses video and other multimedia very well. They are also going to produce a print product in the future which [...]
Every year Editor & Publisher selects the top newspapers that have. “…through excellence or innovation, shown the way in one area or another, such as news coverage, circulation, design, diversity or online.” The Roanoke Times was lauded for their coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. The paper used its Web site to get out images [...]
Recently, Mark Glaser on PBS’s Mediashift blog wrote about the 10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism. Make sure and read the entire article, but one thing I come away with is that access and the shift of power from the few to the many in the form of citizen journalism is the driving [...]
This is an excellent read from Henry Jenkins. The book makes excellent points on the change in power structures between producers and consumers. Media power is no longer just in the hands of those with a printing press and a platform.
From the Introduction: Don’t expect the uncertainties surrounding convergence to be resolved anytime soon. We [...]
In a recent piece by Alex Iskold on “The Physics of the iPhone” on Read/WriteWeb, which is a follow up to a recent article, Iskold says that:
“The iPhone is not only a breakthrough handheld device, it is a device that brings a mesh of digital and physical to the masses. Apple achieved it by turning [...]
In this interview by the Online Journalism Review’s Sandeep Junnarkar of Ted Anthony, the founding editor of AP’s new asap multimedia news portal, Anthony talks about how the new portal was staffed and the importance of visual communicators to the entire process. “I have always believed that the visual specialists in the newsroom are as [...]
Rory O’Conner on AlterNet recently wrote about a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, of citizen journalists sponsored by OhmyNews.com. Coming out of that meeting was the realization that the opportunities for citizen journalists are in place, but that content management and editorial accountability are the largest hurdles to overcome. Professional news organizations are starting to [...]
This may be a hit for hyperlocal media, but as Doug Caverly of webpronews.com quotes Paul Farhi of Backfence.com, “The failure of Backfence may offer no greater lesson than the old one about pioneers being the ones with arrows in their backs.” In my opinion hyperlocal media, combined with social networking sites might be the [...]
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