Publishing
A few weeks back, the BBC published a report about Jakob Nielsen [http://www.useit.com/]ās latest findings about how web users operate [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7417496.stm]. As Kristine pointed out, it had a dumb, dumb headline [http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/
innovation
You are going to deliver news to your readers via the internet. You break it on the web, you break it as soon as you have it, and you develop it online. And then, and only then, do you analyse, contextualise and develop it on paper. And you hope and
deadlines
The next mindshift change journalists need to go through is that they no longer have a finished product. The issue is never complete. The feature is never done. The news is always evolving. And this is hard for us old-school hacks. If you were to ask a group of people
content
Old Media thatās got a little bit of New Media lip gloss on has a somewhat totemic attachment to the idea of ālanding pagesā ā magic pages that will attract search traffic through their SEO gravity. These pages can actually be incredibly useful, as long as they fulfil a genuine
Publishing
An e-mail arrives from the inestimable Mr Rodgers [http://engagement101.blogspot.com/], directing me to a post by Howards Owens about using free web tools to improve your website [http://www.howardowens.com/2008/playing-with-free-online-tools-to-enhance-newspaper-sites/] : > The other day, Nick Sergeant was messing around with Yahoo! Pipes. He discovered that
cms
One of the biggest projects Iāve been involved with here has gone live today. We relaunched the website for the Irish Medical Times [http://www.imt.ie/], a business paper for Irelandās doctors, this morning ā and itās all built around blog software. The whole of the content
Publishing
Good news from other parts of the vast Reed Empire [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2007/09/reeds-rx-conver.html]. Reed Elsevier, which does all that pricey scientific publishing, is starting to make some of its titles free on the web. Good stuff.
Journalism
Hereās a nice example of video from a print title (in this case, Scientific American [http://www.sciam.com/], a competitor to our New Scientist [http://www.newscientist.com/]): Itās the sort of thing that just wouldnāt work well in print, but which makes a great short
alexa
Iām never slow to criticise Alexa [http://www.alexa.com/], a site which provides web site ranking based on a toolbar that is only available to Internet Explorer users on a PC. Why, thatās not going to distort the results at all, is it? Fundamentally, I find the
digital natives
Iāve not been having a good technology day. Weāve had a couple of issues with both our internal and external blog servers that have sent my blood pressure in what could be described as āa non-positive directionā. The āsplit billā service for my corporate mobile phone (no, I
Blogging
This is just fabulous: I first posted it over on Vox [http://adam.vox.com/library/post/this-is-what-we-do.html] last Friday after spotting it on Stephanieās blog [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/02/02/web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/] , and fully intended to post about it here over the weekend. And then got