I’ve been convinced that a way of presenting visitors with a constantly updated snapshot of  the latest content should form an essential part of every news website.
News websites generally do not generally offer much of a clue to visitors about the update status and freshness of stories (some websites do indicate that certain stories have [...]

The folks at Google News had a few days ago come up with some interesting suggestions to help their news search engine do a better job while crawling your site and perhaps yield better search results. Some of  the information on offer could prove very handy: for instance, that digits that are used in article [...]

The W3C recently published a new standard called EMMA that facilitates diverse forms of user interaction, apart from those provided by the keyboard and mouse.
EMMA, the Extensible MultiModal Annotation Markup Language, makes it possible to develop  rich Web applications that will accept different kinds of inputs like speech, handwriting and gestures and provide  the output [...]

Here’s a brilliant way of making use of Twitter feeds in manner that exploits Twitter’s core strengths perfectly to add  value to them in a newsy way.
The post on the backstage.bbc.co.uk blog  explains the idea behind it - get hold of information about train disruption from train operators, process them into Tweets, deliver them as [...]

 
To add to my pervious post on mobile news sites, here’s some solid advice from A List Apart on  the benefit of going mobile-specific in design.
"Ideally, site authors would be able to meet the growing demand for a quality mobile experience without changing a line of code. But the reality is that a site [...]

The mobile web is not that big a deal for news sites right now, but trends do indicate that it will become popular as mobile phones get better and better. Statistics quoted by  a Newspaper Association of America (NAA) report some time ago indicate that those who access news on mobile browsers range between 7 [...]