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This past week, 24/7 Wall Street rated the top 25 newspaper websites.
If newspapers want to stay alive, reading this article is crucial.
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Audio, video, interactive maps and charts, RSS feeds, automatic updates, candidate match-up quizzes, fun and engaging.
Network news and public radio websites may have the more visually-friendly election coverage, but along with newspapers all three entities are using the above devices/elements to cover the U.S. Presidential Election 2008.
From what I’ve observed so far, the one attribute […]

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As one editor said to me, “Who really reads an entire ‘Year in Review?’” For print, stick to lots of photos and pithy cutlines. For online sites, JibJab creates great examples of what readers/viewers want. Journalists don’t have to make the videos glib. Make them entertaining and […]

Though the deadline for the 2008 South By Southwest Interactive call-for-entries submissions was midnight Friday (Dec. 14), there is always next year to apply. (Make sure your site was created before Jan. 1, 2008, to qualify for the 2009 competition.)
Being nominated for SXSW Interactive’s best websites seems like the perfect goal for any newspaper.
The nominated […]

One trend prevalent on the internet that needs extra careful attention from editors is the republishing of old stories which may have some life still left in them.
I’ve seen Yahoo! do this a lot with their wire stories. The story may still be appropriate to run, especially if readers may not have caught it the […]

Thanks to Gene Crawford, president and co-founder of design firm Period Three, who introduces us to the usability resource, The User Experience Magazine via his interview with Communication Arts‘ Design Interact.
Crawford and UX Magazine are using the phrase, “user experience” instead of “usability.” The former phrase is much clearer to both end-user and web […]

NowPublic was launched in 2005.
In their own words:
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had […]

For the past few days, we’ve had difficulty accessing many websites, including this one and my husband’s. Couldn’t even access our web-hosting group, A2 Hosting. There’s no problem on their end.
Thus, no posting.
We believe we’ve narrowed it down to either a bad modem or router. It will be nice if the problem is as simple […]

One of my favorite things about the internet is meeting like-minded people.

Plazes is truly growing into a place where that is easy to do.
Check out their most popular groups.
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