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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Rachel Smolkin at American Journalism Review writes that newspaper leadership won't just roll over and die at the prospects of the Internet, including (a) being disintermediated, (b) being unbundled, (c) having prices destroyed or (d) any mix of a,... ›››
Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | interactivity | strategy
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Adrian Holovaty, one of journalism's smartest people on all things online, proposes some new ways of tagging news stories to give them more useful structures. A news story is intended to be "consumed" by humans, not computers. Indeed, one... ›››
Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Search | content | design | development | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Vin Crosbie carries forward analysis by Prof. Robert G. Picard to a troubling conclusion: even with the fanciest of new media strategies in play, newspapers may be doing little more than buying time before death: Even if newspaper Web... ›››
Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | interactivity | strategy
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Tim Porter posted a copy of his excellent Nieman Reports essay, If Newspapers Are to Rise Again. Among many relevant points: Local is the franchise for newspapers. Local reporting, local photography, local commentary, local information, local interaction with the... ›››
Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | e-newsletter | interactivity | strategy
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
I had the privilege recently of working with my friend Howard Finberg on a how-to project for the Newspaper Association of America: a makeover of newspaper.com ad information pages. The makeover project followed Howard's earlier NAA report, Leveraging Your... ›››
Category: Advertising | Media | Newspapers | content | design | e-newsletter | marketing | small initiatives
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
People who produce Web sites are always curious about how other people produce Web sites. Case in point: an old friend and colleague called this week for some advice about running Web content management on behalf of a good-sized... ›››
Category: Technology | content | design | development | e-newsletter
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Jared Spool makes the case for using interview-based tasks to improve the likelihood of helpful results from Web site user tests. In interview-based tasks, the participants interested are discovered, not assigned. Unlike scavenger-hunt tasks, the test's facilitator and participant... ›››
Category: content | design | interactivity | online culture | strategy | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Two loosely related items: Mike Boland at The Kelsey Group blog brings up a BusinessWeek article that calls out the possibility of a 'social networking bubble': too many MySpace wannabes, too fickle a user base, too tough to control... ›››
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Not sure if there’s great significance to the Yahoo announcement, highlighted in this post by Jonathan Dube at cyberjournalist.net, that the web portal is backing away from earlier announced plans to fairly aggressively pursue an original-content policy. Jonathan reports:... ›››
Category: General | content | user-generated | yahoo
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Lee Gomes at WSJ.com played the role of a writer (rewriter, really) creating content specifically to get search engine rankings. He came away sounding disillusioned. My beef, actually, is with the search engines and the economics of the modern... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM | Media | Search | content | online culture
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