For WSJ.com’s 10th anniversary, users were asked to share their ideas for the perfect news site 10 years from now. Here’s what they said they want: Reliable filters to compensate for information overload. Mobile options for news and information. To go along with that, they want new mobile devices that have more memory storage, bigger [...]
Don’t be fooled by the dry title — Through the Lens of Military History is a cool package with photos, text, and one video clip that tells the story of how wars have been documented with photography. This added feature in the Jordan’s War package (from The Roanoke Times, in Virginia) reminds me of one [...]
This is the first in a series of posts I will make about Jordan’s War, an excellent multimedia package produced by Seth Gitner at The Roanoke (Va.) Times. The package made its debut in March 2006, which is when I first saw it. I wanted to use this package as an example because it’s produced [...]
This is too good to bury deep inside my earlier post about the Maine blogger story: Soon after the lawsuit came to light, Mr. McCartin [Tom McCartin, president of Warren Kremer Paino Advertising] told Ad Age he was most concerned about the blog because if potential clients search for the agency online, they could see [...]
There’s a new case study for how blogs work — particularly how the blogosphere support network can raise one blog’s visibility. A man in Maine, at the far northeastern corner of the U.S., writes a blog called Maine Web Report. His name is Lance Dutson. The blog was not at all well-known before this series [...]
Web programmer and engineering student Christian Montoya wrote a summary of the design trends he saw in CSS Reboot 2006, a collection of newly redesigned Web sites from a large number of different sources. Sites are now intended for a width of 1024 pixels. We used to design for a width of 800, but more [...]
comScore Networks, a market research firm, says its new estimate is “based on the world’s largest, most representative sample and most robust methodology.” That’s researcher-speak for “We count better than you do!” The firm uses a panel of people with “active representation from countries that comprise 99 percent of the global Internet population.” The 694 [...]