A series of highly valuable posts by a young European student journalist bent on redesigning the way we build our news sites.
Tag: onlinenews
Making your first map
Excellent tutorial from Daniel Sato on using Google’s My Maps to build interactive maps with style.
The evolution of lasvegassun.com’s homepage strategy – more importantly, does a nice design negatively impact traffic?
I first heard Rob Curley talk about this issue at SND ’08 in Vegas, when they were just starting to A/B test the ugly list of stories to see what it would do for traffic numbers. Take a look at this progress report to find out how the Sun’s homepage strategy has evolved.
Toward meaningful metrics for local online news sites
In search of online news metrics that matter: “More meaningful metrics would translate visitor interest, disinterest and loyalty into numbers that can be viewed as a whole and within the context of particular site content types, classifications or products…”
7 news story comment guidelines worth looking at | STL Social Media Guy
Kurt Greenbaum rounds up 7 reader comment guideline notes.
7 news story comment guidelines worth looking at | STL Social Media Guy
Adactio: Journal—Ghost in the Machine Tags
Really, really, really interesting notes that relate to how a news organization might invite readers to annotate stories with a particular Flickr tag without opening up a stream to false positives.
An update on our Drupal conversion | yelvington.com
Steve Yelvington’s further notes on training news staffers on Drupal-as-news-CMS.
Internet no muerde – periodistas en tiempo de migración
It’s a Ning network for wired journalists, en Español. “Internet no muerde” = The Internet doesn’t bite. 🙂
El Comercio Perú | Audios de la corrupción, Paro de la CGTP, Selección nacional, Temblor en Lima, Noticias Perú
A gorgeous newspaper.com homepage. They lead with video, follow it with a brilliant breaking news grid that rotates through a variety of sections, then the reader finds themselves in front of a console of information, from soccer schedules (mapped) to stock markets.
Ryan Sholin 