Obama’s speech remade for the Web
Wednesday, November 5, 2008The New York Times has put up a wonderful package of Obama’s Election Night speech, with a dynamic transcript and a useful navigation bar. Listen and watch again.
Archive for the “usability” category
The utility of a blogroll
Monday, September 22, 2008I updated my blogroll this morning. It needed some culling, as some blogs I used to read are no longer being updated. I added a few new ones too. Not necessarily new blogs, but new to my list.
Yesterday I got a question from an audience of journalists: How can we find these blogs about online [...]
Photo galleries on news Web sites
Thursday, September 4, 2008Photo galleries tend to be popular with visitors to online news sites — so it’s common to see these featured at or near the top of the home page. Many local newspapers use wire photos — often ONLY wire photos — in these galleries. (I’m not sure that’s the best strategy, because I can go [...]
Microsoft doesn’t want world peace
Friday, August 15, 2008Call me optimistic, but I think literacy and education lead to reduced conflict and greater prosperity, and I think access to cheap computer power is the key to education around the world. Paper is too expensive — and too slow. Information is power, and information is available free all over the Internet.
It’s slightly off-topic, but [...]
Olympics event tracker from NYT
Friday, August 8, 2008Aimed at letting people find events they like and manage a personal viewing schedule, the Times’s Olympics Tracker offers a lot more utility than the more traditional schedule grid provided by NBC at its Web site.
Why? Because the NBC grid is “We show you, and you look,” and the NYT tracker is, “You look, you [...]
Essentials of a multimedia journalism package
Monday, March 24, 2008I’ve been reviewing the final projects of a few of our journalism master’s students. Every year we have some students who produce an online package as a project in lieu of thesis; the project is supposed to represent an effort comparable to that required to produce a traditional master’s thesis.
We have a good idea what [...]
Why (and when) the print edition works
Friday, March 21, 2008Ryan Sholin made a list of 15 reasons why he has used a print newspaper (instead of the online). I found it eclectic and thought provoking.
For a couple of minutes I mused on my teen years, when I read the newspaper every day. My list for that time (30 years ago) would start like this:
Comics
Ann [...]
