NOVEMBER 2004
OCTOBER 2004
SEPTEMBER 2004
- Generational Media Study (PDF):
A report by the Online Publishers Association pointing to nationwide trends in Internet and media usage.
(09/21/2004)
- Eyetrack III:
This study on how users visually scan over online content got monster buzz among pundits, but here's my problem: This study seems to lack in determining "effectiveness" - that is, it makes lots of observations without saying why it's meaningful when someone stares at a face or odd bit of white space. Does it make navigation easier? Does it drive clickthrough rates on advertising? I dunno.
(09/10/2004)
AUGUST 2004
JUNE 2004
- New Media's Age of Anxiety:
"Many of Blair's subjects simply shrugged off his mistakes, believing they amounted to the usual sloppy, over-hyped style of reporting America had become known for. In essence, they didn't complain because this is what they expected. And sadly, the hits to journalistic integrity just keep on coming."
(06/30/2004)
- Audience Knowledge: Hits or Misses: From Christian Science Monitor: "The challenge: How can you charge for ads when it's nearly impossible to tell advertisers how many people will see them?" (06/21/2004)
- If newspaper Web sites aren't like blogs, at least they're not like Fox News: Barry Parr: "Fox News Web site looks like a porn site without the tits." (06/14/2004)
- How Websites Learn: From Acts of Volition: "A look at how Stuart Brand's classic work of social and architectural criticism, How Buildings Learn, applies to web design and development." (06/12/2004)
- Embracing Best Practice: Simon Willison: "Web standards are a small but vital part of a larger solution, something I like to think of as web development best practice. Let's face it: web standards are boring! Focusing discussions on them is like taking cooking lessons from a chef who only ever talks about food safety; sure they're important, but there's so much more involved in creating a decent meal." (06/11/2004)
- Dawn of open TV?: From Buzz Machine: "Many elements are coming together that will mean the barrier to entry to TV is dropped to the ground. Anybody can produce TV. Anybody can distribute TV. And TV will thus be able to serve any interest. Just as you no longer need a printing press to publish, you no longer need a tower (or cable or satellite) to broadcast." (06/09/2004)
- For 18 to 34 Year-Olds with Broadband, Content is King (PDF):
A report by the Online Publishers Association/comScore Networks shows the obvious: better online connections yield more use. Jump to the last slide: "Music Videos and Movie Clips Most Popular, followed by News." Younger demographics want to consume news products, and online is the preferred medium.
(06/03/2004)
MAY 2004
- User Interface 9 Articles: To promote its October gathering for web designers, information architects, and usability professionals, the conference staff posted a group of excellent articles relating to ideas, concerns and best practices for new media design. Of particular note for harmony between designers and developers is a critical look at content management systems. (05/20/2004)
- Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma: From the summary at A List Apart:
"The major reason to separate presentation from the rest of the page is simple: to simplify any change from a slight design adjustment to a full-fledged redesign." (05/14/2004)
- Guidelines for Visualizing Links: From the summary at Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox:
"Textual links should be colored and underlined to achieve the best perceived affordance of clickability, though there are a few exceptions to these guidelines." (05/10/2004)
- Art Direction and the Web: From the summary at A List Apart:
"Designers, programmers, and other specialists create essential elements of the whole. But the art director ties these parts together for maximum effect and results." (05/07/2004)
APRIL 2004
- A Roadmap to Standards: A good introduction to the Zeldman camp of CSS design. (04/30/2004)
- Google News Deserves Finalist Status in Journalism Awards: Adrian Holovaty champions the automated news aggregator, subject of much controversy as a potential EPpy award winner. (Editors Note: At the E&P Interactive Media awards presentation, Google News was openly booed by some in the crowd, and the ceremony's keynote speaker harshly ridiculed the judges for even considering it. Google News did not win the EPpy.) (04/15/2004)
- The problem with "Citizen Journalism": The idea that non-professionals at large can recognize and spread serious journalism does have a certain egalitarian charm to it, but as Jay Small illustrates in this series of blog posts, that idea is a load of crap. (04/06/2004)
MARCH 2004
JANUARY 2004
- Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution: Jakob Nielsen opines on "better prioritization, fewer interruptions, and concentrated information" to protect productivity. Although he seems to be speaking to intranet developers, he touches on points of value also of value to all Web site designers. (01/05/2004)
DECEMBER 2003
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