I came across this rather interesting piece on the BBC Internet blog on how the BBC is using Twitter to build up audiences. "It’s becoming a very useful tool for programme support – but the time consuming process of relationship-building online is essential to its success, " it says. The author of the post, Zoe…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Google News’ focus on Asia – Singapore edition launched
Google News Singapore Google News, due to some reason, seems to be paying a lot of attention to Asia these days. Singapore is the latest addition to Google News’ Asian basket, launched a few days ago. "As with all our new edition launches, the English-language Singapore edition is tailored to provide a mix of locally…
Design – 2009
I am exploring in a series of posts, ideas linked to some of the key tags generated from content from different sources (three or four of them) on possible trends and themes related to online news media for 2009. This first post deals with the tag ‘design’. Good design is imperative for websites. At each…
Salam is back in Baghdad
The famous Baghdad blogger Salam Pax is back in his home city after two years of exile. And he describes the reason for his return thus in The Guardian (on January 15): "Since the war started, Baghdad has become for me the sort of place where you can never really judge how it is until…
‘Monomedia newsrooms are the past. Multimedia is the future’
It is that time when we look to the year ahead and make our plans and to-do lists and so on. A few of the journalistic prescriptions for 2009, at least ones that I thought worth sharing with you, come from IRFA magazine; IRFA describes itself as the "worldwide research and service organisation for the…
How can the Drudge Report be one of the ‘ best designed’ sites on the web?!
"… I still think that the Drudge Report is an aesthetic masterpiece even though I also consider it ugly. Can good design also be ugly? I think Drudge proves it can." … a post on the 37signals.com blog (which incidentally is read and handled by people who know a lot about web design). So how…
Thoughts for news site managers
Thoughts for news site managers in 2009; my focus is more on small and medium news sites that do not have the benefit of being served by large technical teams. Have a vision for your site: I know, you already have one; but the clearer it is the better. It may be something that is…
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