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This was news to me: Yahoo! Sports is covering the heck out of the Reggie Bush college football story. Have a look — the layout and access to past coverage are very well done.
Found via College Football: The Top 10.
Technorati tags: online journalism | sports | online media
Bluffton Today is a community journalism / citizen media site for the South Carolina community of Bluffton (about 15,000 people live there; see Google map), in case you have not heard the buzz (e.g., Batten Awards, JD) about it. Some content posted on the Web site is published in the Bluffton Today newspaper, a free [...]
A blogger can freely support a politician or a cause, while journalists (other than columnists) are cautioned never to take sides.
But is there a conflict of interest for bloggers who receive financial support from the people they write about? What are the rules in this medium?
The Center for Democracy and Technology has produced The Net [...]
Ah, fall — and time for the big fat annual honoring the best interactive design of the past year (from the graphic arts perspective). I have all 12 of these sumptuous periodicals. But if you’re not overfond of the lucious scents of the highest quality paper and inks, you can experience the winners online (which [...]
A very nice (and informational) interview with information architect and interaction designer Donna Maurer, at the Web Standards Group site.
Information architecture projects need:
skills in organising content — figuring out how to put it together in ways to help people find what they need.
Interaction design projects need
people with the ability to understand task flows, how [...]
Ross Mayfield, writing at the Telegraph blog usually manned by Shane Richmond, has an excellent post about this today.
One framework I suggest for thinking through strategic options begins with a question. What area of coverage is desired by your (former) readers, but is too expensive to provide?
If you are open to sharing control to create [...]
The New York Times reported that Facebook “is preparing to open its membership to everyone.”
As a college professor, I’m aware of how much time many students spend on Facebook. (Let’s just say, lots.) Many students also spend hours a day on MySpace. Both of these sites have gotten plenty of press, so you don’t need [...]
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