Friday, January 10, 2003

Jon Udell: "Ultimately, it's not about RSS any more than it was about NNTP. It's about the evolution of our species toward shared consciousness." [Scripting News] 9:29:18 AM    Trackback []

Recommended reading. A few links of interest to designers and developers of online news/information sites: Matt Jones: The Glass Wall. "A document detailing the design process behind the BBC homepage." Fascinating, and beautifully explained. Anne Conneen: The Best Designed News Sites Steve Yelvington: What are the best-designed news sites? "Good Web design is interaction design, not 'how it looks' design." Nathan Ashby-Kuhlman: Name your sections carefully. "Online editors might want to ask themselves whether their section names will still be appropriate 10 years from now." Columbia Journalism Review: Sixty-Seven Young Journalists and the Newspaper of Their Dreams. So what if I'm one of the journalists quoted? There are some good ideas here. Editor and Publisher: Newspaper Outsiders Offer Tips for Web Sites Steve Outing: New Year Resolutions: Fix Archives, Ban Pop-ups [Holovaty.com] 9:24:46 AM    Trackback []

Cory Doctorow debunks war-plus-suffix Wi-Fi fears in InternetWeek: Cory says a lot of very sensible, logical things about why the fears raised about warspamming, wardriving, and other problems are fearmongering and misdirection. [80211b News] 9:09:41 AM    Trackback []

Dan Gillmor defines "We Media". Dan Gillmor's latest piece in the Columbia Journalism Review extends his Journalism 3.0 thesis ("my readers know more than I do") and talks about "We Media:" Interactive technology -- and the mostly young readers and viewers who use and understand it -- are the catalysts. We Media augments traditional methods with new and yet-to-be invented collaboration tools ranging from e-mail to Web logs to digital video to peer-to-peer systems. But it boils down to something simple: our readers collectively know more than we do, and they don't have to settle for half-baked coverage when they can come into the kitchen themselves. This is not a threat. It is an opportunity. And the evolution of We Media will oblige us all to adapt. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 9:04:49 AM    Trackback []