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May 25, 2006

AJR: Newspapers adapting to Internet. Really.

- 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

May 23, 2006

Two presentations at Poynter

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I had the profound privilege of participating as visiting faculty at last week's Leadership for Online News Managers seminar at the Poynter Institute. Seminar participants already have the links to my two PowerPoint presentation decks, and I'm sure the... ›››

Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Search | Technology | content | design | development | interactivity | strategy | usability | user research

May 18, 2006

Tagging news for structure, utility

- 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

May 12, 2006

No plaid in Yahoo pattern library

- 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

May 02, 2006

It’s a’hard, it’s a’hard, it’s a’haaaaard …

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I'm planning to write an essay for this journal and the e-newsletter, and I need your help. Theme: [The Internet/The personal computer/Consumer technology in general] is still too hard to use. So do me a favor. E-mail me your... ›››

Category: Advertising | E-Business | Innovation | Technology | content | design | development | interactivity | marketing | online culture | rich media | usability

May 01, 2006

Follow the Web 2.0 money

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

His healthy skepticism for so-called Web 2.0 showing, Nick Carr reminds us that the infrastructure providers reap the rewards of Internet bubbles, new or old: It's worth stopping for a second and thinking back to the old-school web -... ›››

Category: Advertising | E-Business | Innovation | Technology | content | design | e-newsletter | online culture | rich media | strategy | usability

April 26, 2006

Publish ’til the cows come home, then what?

- 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

April 19, 2006

Sterling goes solo

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Not sure how I missed this, but I found out today Greg Sterling left the Kelsey Group and has formed his own consulting enterprise, Sterling Market Intelligence. What's he covering? His new bio says he's "focused on online consumer... ›››

Category: Advertising | Innovation | Media | Search | Technology | content | design | development | interactivity | marketing | strategy | usability

Registration evolution at Scripps sites

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

The following item, regarding user registration at sites I work with in my "day job," was also posted to two newspaper industry e-mail lists. My apologies if you've already seen it as a member of either list. At 13... ›››

Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | design | e-newsletter | marketing | strategy | usability

March 30, 2006

Porter to newspapers: (a) Get local! (b) Reinvent!

- 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

If Newspapers Are to Rise Again

- First Draft by Tim Porter

The article belows appears in the Spring 2006 of Nieman Reports. I wrote it in January before the Knight Ridder sale/resale and announcements by several newspapers that are either cutting days of publication or moving more traditional print content,... ›››

Category: Innovation

March 07, 2006

Rapid Web prototyping using PowerPoint

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Here's a cool idea from Jensen Harris for times you want to put Web product concepts in front of users in a more robust format than a piece of paper or static storyboard screen. Harris explains how to use... ›››

Category: Innovation | Technology | design | interactivity | usability

February 22, 2006

A new shade of Memphis blue

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Because of all the NAA CONNECTIONS shuffling (conference ends today), I'm late acknowledging another significant Scripps site redesign. Corporate and site staffs put a smart new face on commercialappeal.com, site of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, just yesterday. Building... ›››

Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | design | marketing

February 14, 2006

Atllanta on My Mind

- First Draft by Tim Porter

Angela Tuck, the public editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, interviewed Jay Smith, president of Cox Newspapers. which owns the AJC. Smith says Cox plans to be in the news paper business for a long time to come and offers... ›››

Category: Innovation

February 06, 2006

The year of the great unification

- yelvington.com -

This is the year of the great reunification. Throughout the newspaper industry, the Internet and print people are being bound together into one organization. It is dangerous, but I'm pushing hard for it. It's dangerous because we could lose... ›››

Category: Innovation | Newspapers

January 30, 2006

Five Survival Ideas for Newspapers

- First Draft by Tim Porter

As I mentioned yesterday [Read: Doing the Numbers for the Future], the current practices and formats of newspapers are not going to attract enough new readers to replace the current readership generation. The great challenge, then, for today's newspaper... ›››

Category: Innovation

January 20, 2006

10 Things You Can Do This Year to Grow

- First Draft by Tim Porter

We're almost a month into the new year, but there's still plenty of time for you or your boss to do Ken Sands' 10 Things Editors Should Do In 2006....... ›››

Category: Innovation

January 09, 2006

The Sunday Not-So-Funnies

- First Draft by Tim Porter

There are three Sunday newspapers on my kitchen table - the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Marin Independent Journal. Collectively, they represent the breadth of the current state of American newspapers - the consistent excellence of... ›››

Category: Innovation

January 04, 2006

Now for Something Different on A-1

- First Draft by Tim Porter

The guilty plea of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff was old news for morning papers, especially here on the West Coast, but it was still a big story. How to entice Page 1 readers with day-old news is an ongoing... ›››

Category: Innovation

December 31, 2005

Happy Better Year Next Year

- First Draft by Tim Porter

On the way home from Mexico, I usually spend a few days in Arlington, Texas, midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, where my mother lives. This trip I arrive at night as thousands of acres of nearby prairie are... ›››

Category: Innovation