Among all the awards for advertising, NAA does give out a few Digital Edge awards for, um, journalism. Three sites won “Edgies” for innovative multimedia storytelling:

Circulation less than 75,000: Studio 55 vodcast, Naples Daily News (read Rob Curley’s insider story)

Circulation 75,000-250,000: John Muir Trail blog, The Fresno Bee

Circulation greater than 250,000: Chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune Interactive

The […]

Bakotopia’s Dan Pachecho told the crowd at NAA that Bakersfield is “rolling out a Yelp-like ‘Insider Guide’ that will contain profiles on local businesses” (source: The Local Onliner).
Bakotopia is a site from The Bakersfield Californian, a family-owned newspaper.
Pachecho … sees the Guide as a natural extension of a MySpace-like personal profile section. “If a user […]

Read the BBC’s 15 Web Principles.
My faves:
1. Build web products that meet audience needs
7. Any website is only as good as its worst page
8. Make sure all your content can be linked to, forever
12. Accessibility is not an optional extra
15. Personalisation should be unobtrusive, elegant and transparent
Then you can see what “clueless” really means in […]

You’re trying to figure out how to increase traffic to your Web site, yes?
YouTube’s market share (for all site visits in the U.S.) rose to 0.64 percent (from 0.54 percent) in the week following the inclusion of YouTube videos in the Google Video Search Index (source: Hitwise, via Mashable).
That is a one-week growth rate of […]

There are 465 front pages of newspapers from all over the world, fresh today, at the Newseum site. This is a new and much more usable version. The beautiful sharp JPGs, well optimized, load quite fast.
You can even sort by region.
(Via Joe’s del.icio.us bookmarks.)
Technorati tags: newspapers | design

I’ve been recommending Olympus audio recorders to everyone for the past year or so. They are quite inexpensive, and with an external mic plugged in, they provide very acceptable audio quality. I have six of the discontinued WS-200S model, and they have all survived weeks of use by students. I think the cheaper WS-100 would […]

I’ve been working on setting up ways to help journalism students and educators learn to gather and edit audio. One of the things people need is an easy-to-use player that they can incorporate into a blog entry or Web page.

To learn how to use this player on your own, please see this tutorial. I didn’t […]