Read/Write Web compares CNN, USA Today, and AOL.
Although RW compares the functionality more than the design.
Newspaper circulation has been on the decline over the past few years, but the traffic to newspaper websites continues to rise . Interestingly, the area of newspaper websites that has experienced the most growth is blogs, perhaps proving that new [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
More design comparisons: USA Today v CNN v AOL
7/9/2007 – 4:25 am
Knight News Challenge: here I go
7/8/2007 – 4:15 pm
I have decided I am going to enter several of my ideas as a candidate for a grant for the Knight News Challenge.
The KNC (as the cool kids call it) will grant up to $5 million (!) to a group or individual in four categories: Ideas, pilot projects, leadership initiatives and new business ventures. [...]
Clean design is the future of news sites
7/7/2007 – 4:51 pm
I griped recently about how no one really talks about news site design.
Andy Rutledge shut me up.
Andy compares CNN to USA Today pointing out the flaws in USA Today’s approach (that runs on Pluck - as will every other Gannett newspaper within the year).
I think we are begining to see the start of a movement [...]
5 “how to” posts that have gotten my attention
7/3/2007 – 5:41 am
Much is said about new media, but specific tutorials/guides are few and far between. Some of my favorites lately:
The best Firefox extensions for online news producers - Joe Murphy, who I interviewed way back when, introduced me to a few extensions I didn’t know existed.
How to edit audio - From Multimedia reporter, Ron shows a [...]
The internship that wasn’t
7/2/2007 – 6:32 pm
It all sounded so cool.
This June, I, along with 3 other interns, were invited to devolep a youth-driven Web site for Delawareonline.
My fellow interns and I did market research, scouted the competition, and developed a new way of delivering news that we felt would really click with the media savvy youth of America.
But instead of [...]