By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
Danny Sanchez at Journalistopia sums up the decision to quit using page views to measure Web site success. This is a great move for all involved, in my opinion.
Measuring the amount of time each site visitor spends on your site means you’ll be measuring whether people actually find value in your site.
Say I go to [...]
Every year since 2001, Agence France-Presse has syndicated an awesome Flash package to paying clients such as The New York Times. Like every cycling fan, I’m pretty disillusioned by all the doping controversies surrounding the great race. But doping aside, for me, there’s no TV sports experience that even comes close to watching those men [...]
Regina McCombs spent 13 years shooting news for TV and then (so far) 10 years at the Star Tribune online. In this Poynter column, she explains:
Pacing
Transitions, effects and movement
Editing to sound
Separately, Bryan Murley interviewed Regina and prompted her to offer suggestions for people who are just starting to learn video journalism for the Web.
Andy Dickinson [...]
Most visited posts on this blog from June 1 through July 1, according to Google Analytics:
Basic kit: Gear for the multimedia reporter
Behind the scenes: Making multimedia journalism
Buying a point-and-shoot for video
Part 2 of the quick-and-easy guide to audio editing
One way to make money online
See past MVP lists for this blog.
Every so often, I blurt out something about how UGLY most newspaper Web pages are. Ugly to look at, ugly to use, hard to parse, cluttered — all of the above.
Designer Andy Rutledge has written a wonderful point-by-point comparison, with illustrations, showing why USA Today’s recent Web redesign is “uglier” than CNN’s even more recent [...]
Check out the fantastic video of Mexican wrestlers shot with a Canon Powershot SD800 IS point-and-shoot camera and edited in Final Cut Pro.
Then check out these Canon cameras (all links go to the Digital Photography Review site) — SD700 IS (a k a IXUS 800 IS) — SD800 IS (a k a IXUS 850 [...]
This is pretty geeky, but if you are trying to build (or convert) a CMS, or design a new site for large-scale use, Templatemaker could be a great help to you. Forward the link to your HTML coders and programmers. They will know what to do with it.
It comes from Adrian Holovaty, so you know [...]
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