Should news organisations boldly go the cloud computing way to cut costs and improve efficiency?  Coupled with this is another question: how can open source too be made use of in this regard?
A recent article in CIO outlined how Toby Wright, CTO of the Telegraph Media Group, spelt out the benefits that Daily Telegraph [...]

This redesign, which the world is talking about, has Google News developing its core aggregation model in the direction of customisation and personalisation. Google News continues to stick to its strength - which is all about getting machines to do the work of crunching news data from endless sources and moulding and filtering it as [...]

Google has come up with a Wordpress plugin that will make it possible for many to try out its experimental Living Stories model of news presentation themselves.
The Living Stories model was centered on an ongoing news development - a kind of a news thread - that would be updated with new stories and associated content.

I [...]

Even if you have been innundated with reviews of the iPad and its possible impact on the media industry, this post from Nieman Journalism Lab, which delves a bit more into how news sites have so far approached content presentation on this new gadget, should be worth a read.
Three approaches have been adopted: ’swiping or [...]

Being able  add annotations to original source material and open them up to public view adds an entirely new dimension to reporting; and this is what New York Times has just done with version 2 of its document viewer.
Its this kind of innovation that will take journalism to the next level. Innovation that is vital [...]

The trend of giving weightage to traffic stats while making content-related decisions has caught up with magazine websites. This is just one of the things that caught my attention when I read the recent Columbia Journalism Review survey of standards and practices at magazine websites.
I guess that this trend holds good to some extent for [...]

Most news sites don’t generally pay much attention to developing internal search; though search, after navigation, is perhaps the important tool visitors use to find content.
And here, the quality of a news site’s internal search is an important factor and there’s no point in having search that offers no better results than Google does.
Often [...]

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen had in an Alertbox column last year said that "users hate change, so it’s usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually." 
The reason - users have spent long hours using a site, even the few mintues they spend adds up to a lot of user hours over months and [...]

Yahoo News and New York Times occupied the top two slots among news sites in India, according to a comScore study, which looked at the most popular news sites in the country and the growth they had achieved during the past year.
The ascent of Yahoo News is not that surprising because the Yahoo brand [...]

“A new online tool that, well, isn’t exactly going to revolutionize journalism,”  is how a Washington Post article described it.
“It’s called a living story page, and Google executives are touting it as their contribution to the beleaguered newspaper business,” it went on to say.
New York Times, the other participant in the experiment, had this to [...]

Journalism first and SEO next:  that’s the strategy that really pays. We had the Daily Mirror’s associate editor Matt Kelly say at the WAN India 2009 meet exactly how this approach - a change from a SEO dominated approach - had started paying a rich dividend for the Mirror’s websites.
Well interestingly Mr Kelly’s speech came [...]