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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
I haven't seen much from media and local search industry commentators, so I'm wondering if word got out very far: Gannett is buying Planet Discover, the integrated search services provider. I can't say much about the deal because Scripps,... ›››
Category: design
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Lost Remote tipped me off to a cool and useful design pattern library from the Yahoo! gang. Love that semitransparent drag-and-drop action in My Yahoo!? This site shows how it's done, with an animated example. Sweet!... ›››
Category: Innovation | Technology | design | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Here's an intriguing take, as always from The Register, on Google's latest indexing algorithm update. Seems it has legitimate Webmasters riled up more than usual; these tweaks happen fairly often, but the latest one may have exposed some real... ›››
Category: E-Business | Search | Technology | design | development | e-newsletter | strategy
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
I don't know whether dedicated e-reader devices -- such as the one Microsoft and The New York Times showed off, or the first-generation RCA-branded ones I used to work with in 2000 -- will ever achieve widespread consumer adoption.... ›››
Category: Media | Newspapers | Technology | design | e-newsletter | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
The Techdirt gang notes a problem with all those page views claimed by MySpace, the social network juggernaut. Many appear to be low-value by-products, whether on purpose or not, of the site's clunky user interface. Techdirt points to an... ›››
Category: Advertising | Media | design | interactivity | marketing | strategy | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Jakob Nielsen reports findings of new Eyetrack research: We found that users' main reading behavior was fairly consistent across many different sites and tasks. This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and has the following three components:... ›››
Category: design | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Spotted on the wide world of the Web: Jared Spool saw something in the recent NYTimes.com redesign that I didn't think about when I reviewed it: major pages are longer, vertically, and require more scrolling. Spool's gang of usability... ›››
Category: Media | Newspapers | design | strategy | usability
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Jeffrey Zeldman announced his studio's redesign of the Advertising Age Web site. Zeldman literally wrote the book on standards-based Web design, and I'm an unabashed fan. I like the boldness of the new, much larger Ad Age logo. I... ›››
Category: design
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
I held off commenting on the redesign of NYTimes.com for an extra day. At first glance early Monday, things such as headline links that were a notch too small, wildly uneven vertical spacing and resulting big chunks of dead... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | design | e-newsletter | usability
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I haven't been blogging much lately because I've been busy on a project. I can't disclose the details yet, but here are some of the issues: Participation. It's been clear all along that the Internet is a network, not... ›››
Category: Newspapers | design
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
There’s a lively thread going on over at the Visual Editors forum under the heading If newspaper markets are so different, why do most papers look so much alike? Alan Jacobson started the thread by pointing out: Unlike their... ›››
Category: General | Newspapers | design
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