Archive for October, 2007
AT&T works in more places…
AT&T works in more places like New Sanfrankota. Which for some reason doesn’t include Washington, D.C. or Pat’s apartment or Pat’s work. But it does work in more places Chilondonscow. So, for all of the people in those made up cities, AT&T rocks their world. For me, in the District of Columbia, not so much. [...]
Avoid the Wall of News
Too much information is in fact too much information. Don’t try to put links to every single story and section on your homepage. If you overwhelm users, they’ll get confused and leave your site. Less is more. A very troubling phenomenon that most newspaper sites have fallen into is the Wall of News. Newspaper editors [...]
Do you use your own products (or your newspaper’s terrible Web site)?
A great barometer of how good or bad the products you are making is whether or not you use them. More to the point, do you use your company’s Web site? If you don’t, it’s probably not your fault — it’s your company’s for making a poor product. You know you have a winning product [...]
You can’t scoop yourself, part 2
I’ll say it one more time, the only way to scoop yourself is to sit on a story and allow someone else to break it. In no way, shape or form can holding a story off the Web so you won’t “scoop” your print edition be a good idea for your company. And I have [...]
You can’t scoop yourself
It’s impossible to scoop yourself. The very idea of scooping yourself is incredibly ridiculous, but we still hear many old timers cautioning editors to not scoop themselves on the paper’s Web site. The old-school news people contend that if you run a story on your Web site as soon as it is done or the [...]
Not every media boss is an idiot, just most
In the oh-my-God-no-way department, the new boss of major record label EMI says that the record industry must embrace digital or die. I know what you’re thinking, “no way,” but it is true. At some juncture the major media companies, whether they produce music, TV, movies or journalism have to fundamentally understand that digital is [...]
Podcasting done right, CNET style
Everyone wants to get into blogs and podcasts and vodcasts and social networking and yada, yada, yada, but most don’t know how to do them right — especially news organizations. New media can teach old media a thing or twenty. CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast is an excellent example of how to do podcasting right. [...]
What makes a good blog
The other day I discussed how not everyone deserves a blog at a newspaper, but I think it’s important to point out what makes a blog worth reading. 1. Focus A focused blog almost always will be more popular and facilitate richer conversations than an unfocused blog. Now, you don’t have to have a niche. [...]