News sites have to deal with long lists, usually of story headlines and related story links. Well there is the problem of making these dull information-packed pages visually interesting, and one way of doing this is to ‘add ambient visual data’ to them says this Neiman Journalism Lab post, referring to the experiment of a…
It’s important to find ways of introducing readers to a major news site redesign: not only do they have to come to terms with it but also be motivated to provide feedback on it. Not all sites are able to do it well or even to the reasonable sastisfaction of the thousands of readers who…
Its time to think of the possible ways in which media and news sites could take advantage of the emerging user environment in which browsers will increasingly support HTML 5 and the direct rendering of audio and video. It might be more of an exciting idea than reality now in practical terms, but browsers (at…
This Nieman Journalim Lab post says that the AnnArbor.com website, which was launched following the closure of Ann Arbor News has an unconventional home page, "organized by time and not importance." Organising posts in a chronological order is a challenge for news sites because prioritization, which I believe is vital to effective news delivery, is…
The number of news-site oriented open source projects that are in the offing seem much more than I had imagined. I had referred to a couple of open source projects in an earlier post just a few days ago; here are a few more I came across in recent times. The first one is from…
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