I’m currently in the middle of a 3-week break from computers – in the meantime, here’s an article I wrote for Press Gazette the week before last, about the past year’s raft of newspaper website relaunches: The last Luddite has left the building. With almost every national newspaper having revamped its website in the past twelve months, Richard Desmond has
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A conversation with a radio colleague yesterday about a new course that I’m involved in – a Masters in Television and Interactive Content – threw up the question of how people define interactivity. “What you mean by interactivity is probably not what I think of,” he said. “I see interactivity as giving the user control,” I replied. “Well OK then,
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I never really saw the point of those PDF newspapers being tested by The Guardian and Telegraph. Now Poynter Online reports on research that indicates I may not be the only one: “New figures from Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association show that virtually nobody is interested in PDF version of newspapers.”
Online magazine Monkey goes social
Dennis’s online-only (and hugely successful) magazine Monkey is set to launch another website next Wednesday (at MonkeyMag.co.uk) with a focus on the social. It’s “for readers”, you see. A press release says the website “will be centred around the same type of great video found in Monkey, while also encouraging readers to interact with the site by posting their own
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