The Guardian’s new site has gotten off to a great start, with impressive coverage of the Blair resignation. Alongside the main story is lengthy promotion of audio, galleries, video, interactive and analysis. The depth of treatment backs up Mark Porter’s point that the new design “allows us to respond dynamically to events, by varying the layout as the news agenda
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Today sees the Guardian Unlimited finally getting the makeover it’s been desperately needing since the print product made ‘Berliner’ a polite topic of conversation. For the moment it’s only the front page – as creative editor Mark Porter explains, it “will be a facade concealing a busy building site, as work proceeds on an 18-month programme to redesign and rebuild
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Steve Hill picks apart The Sony Radio Academy Awards podcast award comments for the following tips: 1. Have “pace and energy” 2. Capture “the intimacy of internet radio” 3. Choose a niche which would “never be accommodated on a mainstream radio station” 4. “First-class radio production techniques” 5. “Have an intelligent and witty tone”
Most newspapers have had websites for a decade now. They’ve gone from shovelling print content onto a webpage to hosting video bulletins and podcasts, blogs and galleries, and even social networking. And yet they still can’t seem to get one thing right: linking. Take one basic story from this weekend that’s very close to my heart: the resignation of Bolton
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Another day, another relaunch. Micro Persuasion reports on the ABCNews.com relaunch: “According to Michael Clemente, Senior Executive Producer, the new site, which it launched last night, is designed to harness the power of what they call “citizen reporters.” Viewers and readers can now help ABC help report the news by feeding in news and leaving comments. The new site also
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The New York Post reports on a clever (and relatively inexpensive) device which allows videographers to film, edit and upload material without spending large amounts of time on a computer: “The little spy-corder device, named Flip Video, is being billed as the first camcorder to upload directly to sites such as YouTube and Grouper – eliminating the step of putting
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