A common trait of successful online news and magazine sites is, surprisingly, a developer blog. Think of a developer blog as a look into the minds of the people building the site: what limitations they have, what they’re working on, what they believe their readers want or need, success stories of how they built interesting …
In the last month we’ve had some news sources trying an unconventional method of reaching new audiences: Facebook. “Go where your readers live” is the message of news applications within Facebook, and there is certainly no shortage of people who spend a significant amount of time checking in on Facebook throughout the day, whether it …
I received some good feedback on additional things people thought might be interesting to look investigate regarding next week’s election. So today I’ve done two things: 1) Taken a brief look at media outlet perception of candidates based on published articles and 2) Re-examined the Irish twitter stream with a new sentiment engine to see …
When iOS5 features were shown earlier this year at Apple’s WWDC, Newsstand was one of the most interesting and talked about ideas. Now that iOS5 is live, it’s time to give it a test drive and see if it meets publishers’ expectations. Apple describes Newsstand as “A custom newsstand for all your subscriptions.” Newsstand is …
The Irish presidential election is just about a week away. As a non-citizen resident of Ireland, I can’t vote in this election (only local elections). But I still find it interesting so I took a look at some social media data on the topic to make some visualizations. These are not meant to be predictions, …
We’ve looked at a lot of digital versions of their newspaper counterparts. Today instead we’re looking at news sources providing their content only online and not through any print formats. I’m examining digital-only news sources The Daily, Newsy and New360. THE DAILY I was very excited for The Daily when it was announced. The …
CONFERENCE DAY 2 The second day of SND STL had me overwhelmed. I listened to so many great speakers the previous day, learned so much, saw so many excellent demos. And now here I was with another great line-up of sessions to choose from. Cross-Platform Editing – Teresa Schmedding is the president of the …
When your hometown is in the Midwest, you generally don’t expect to get the opportunity to fly there often for amazing, cutting-edge, technology and designy events. I was surprised that SND, the Society for News Design, was having their annual event in St. Louis, but even more surprised when I looked at the line-up and …
Last week’s look at Irish Newspaper websites and applications was a bit depressing. So this week, I’m looking at some of the newer and more tech-friendly alternatives: TheJournal.ie and Storyful. Neither of these news sources have alternative print formats, they are both digital-only. THEJOURNAL.IE TheJournal.ie is an Irish news website which invites users to …
There are many different adjustments required when you move from working in an office for someone else to working from home by yourself. For me, one of the challenges has been scheduling time to catch up with people. While working at Microsoft as an evangelist, part of my job involved meeting up with people, grabbing …
