Comments on: News site needs new, innovative user interfaces

By: Designing a New dailytarheel.com | CoPress

Designing a New dailytarheel.com | CoPress — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:14:23 +0000

[...] something even more radical. What if the Daily Tar Heel were to take design cues from Facebook and use the homepage to show me a stream of the website activity based on who was in my social graph? That’s the type of experimentation I’d personally [...]

By: Printed Matters » Interns suffer too

Printed Matters » Interns suffer too — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:26:50 +0000

[...] Thanks for being honest, Pat. But we don’t need that kind of honesty from a 25-year-old journalist and entrepreneur. We need it from our j-schools. (No offense to Pat, who is doing good work.) [...]

By: ACP Best of the Midwest College Newspaper Convention | Running Design - Drew Geraets

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:58:08 +0000

[...] Take a Risk News Web sites are still too much of a one-way street. Comments are just the beginning. Information should flow from your content producers and your customers into a giant swirling pool of conversation. Pat Thorton calls for new, innovative user interfaces and a social news feed. [...]

By: Un diario digital en formato news feed como Facebook « tejiendo redes

Un diario digital en formato news feed como Facebook « tejiendo redes — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:26:35 +0000

[...] diario digital en formato news feed como Facebook Saltar a Comentarios Ese tipo de interfaz es la que imagina Patrick Thornton para los sitios de noticias. Realmente hasta me emociona la idea y espero que alguien se ilumine y lo haga [...]

By: pat

pat — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:34:40 +0000

@Daniel,

I’d be more than happy to work with the Populous Project. Here are two UI ideas to get started with!

By: My footprints across the web | Chris Deary

My footprints across the web | Chris Deary — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:54:01 +0000

[...] » News site needs new, innovative user interfaces | The Journalism Iconoclast [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:45:36 +0000

Regarding the first, you’ve just described http://www.indy.com to a tee …

Or at least what we’re hoping it will be.

By: Interesting stuff for Tuesday by andydickinson.net

Interesting stuff for Tuesday by andydickinson.net — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:46:30 +0000

[...] Pat Thornton calls for more innovation in the user interface of news sites. I think he is right but it may be a difficult balance between convention – already established – [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:42:26 +0000

I think you should be feeding ideas to the Populous Project...

By: Mads Kristensen – Sker der nu endelig noget?

Mads Kristensen – Sker der nu endelig noget? — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:11:03 +0000

[...] Tanken er rigtig god, fordi som Pat Thornton fra The Journalism Iconoclast beskriver forskellen på et socialt medie og et nyhedsmedie: [...]

By: Jan France

Jan France — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:01:25 +0000

Yes, Yes! I totally agree.
However, when you integrate everything available – your readers may love you – but the local main stream media not only doesn’t get it, they think you’re nuts. Then after a time they start getting brave and may use one or two of your ideas.
Been there, done that .. and presently in the process of kicking their butts.
A few of us are trying to make a difference.

By: Notes from a Teacher - Monday squibs

Notes from a Teacher - Monday squibs — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:32:05 +0000

[...] News site needs new, innovative user interfaces. Pat Thornton takes newspapers to task for their websites and wonders why the design model for the online newspaper is the print newspaper. It’s a long post, but one worth pondering. Related: News Web site user interfaces, Megan Taylor riffs on Pat’s post and gives details about why she (like many of us) rarely go to newspaper websites. [...]

By: Links for Jan. 12, 2008 « CC: Chris Cadelago, journalist

Links for Jan. 12, 2008 « CC: Chris Cadelago, journalist — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:05:24 +0000

[...] News site needs new, innovative user interfaces [...]

By: News Web site user interfaces | Megan Taylor: Web Journalist

News Web site user interfaces | Megan Taylor: Web Journalist — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:42:07 +0000

[...] Thornton wrote about user interfaces today, and how news Web sites are so loath to move away from an interface that mimicks the print [...]