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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 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 04, 2006

Google algorithm tweaks vs. Web spam

- 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

Fleeing the snail

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

I found this through a link from Lloyd Shepherd: Is the pace of change really such a shock?, in which Tom Coates has some things to say about change that have the ring of sanity (if not truth) to... ›››

Category: General | Media | Technology | change

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

Wondering about Microsoft/Times e-reader

- 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

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

March 23, 2006

Broadband makes the news go better

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Pew finds the Internet has become a primary news source for people with home broadband. Is anyone surprised at that? Nah. Here's what I want to know, and as far as I read, the Pew study barely touches on... ›››

Category: JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Technology | content | design | e-newsletter | online culture | strategy | usability

March 19, 2006

81 photos of SXSW Interactive

- New Media Musings

Just finished uploading my Flickr photo set of 81 images taken at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, this past week. Above are Andrew Michael Baron of 'Rocketboom,' Ian Clarke of Freenet, and Lacey Chavez of... ›››

Category: Photography | Technology | Web/Tech | sxsw | sxsw 2006

March 10, 2006

A man of (news)letters

- 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

March 08, 2006

Good JavaScript tutorial from SitePoint

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

The SitePoint gang comes back with another great tutorial (I liked their Ajax primer last year, too): Script Smarter: Quality JavaScript from Scratch. SitePoint's smart about free-sample marketing. This tutorial comes from a book the company has published on... ›››

Category: Technology | design | development | security | usability

Mashing the news

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

If an engaged citizen can produce as interesting and compelling a piece of journalism as onNYturf.com has done with Atlantic Yards, why can’t well-funded and staffed media organizations do the same? Atlantic Yards (yes, it is journalism with a... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology | mashup

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 16, 2006

Yahoo Opens Up

- MediaFlect - The Blog

Wow: Yahoo’s teaching us about usability and releasing code so we can do it. (Yes, this is from a blog I oversee at mediabistro.com)... ›››

Category: All Media | Technology

January 31, 2006

Still awed

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

I’m old enough to still be awed by what technology does. I spent time this morning “sitting in” on a fascinating panel discussion about the possible impacts of citizen journalism. It involved a number of guests and a live... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Technology

January 29, 2006

Shedding technology

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

I’m reading James Gleick’s What Just Happened, a collection of his tech columns from the mid-’90s. It’s a fun read, particularly in light of what’s happened since, and a reminder of how much has changed and how quickly. has... ›››

Category: General | Technology

January 17, 2006

Politician using video

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Interesting use of internet technology by my local Liberal election candidate Stephen Owen: I got an email this evening from his campaign pointing to a number of video releases at his site that feature Owen, the sitting MP, giving... ›››

Category: ELECTIONS | General | Technology

It’s just software

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

This quote, stolen from Jim Romenesko, is one of the most sensible things I’ve read in some time: “Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology,” writes Simon Dumenco. “Even though I tend... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology

December 28, 2005

Finding new journalism

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Jonathan Dube at Cyberjournalist.net has come up with his list of Top online media stories of 2005, based on the most popular reports at his must-read site. Not surprisingly, four of the top 10 are related to online media’s... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology

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