Technology
AP: Good tracking initiative, crazy licensing idea
Give Associated Press President Tom Curley credit for grabbing people’s attention. A New York Times story today quotes him stating that online references to AP stories containing as little as a headline and a link require a licensing agreement. The interview follows AP’s announcement Thursday that it will begin a two-pronged approach to tracking sites [...]
Mobile user experience ‘miserable’
How bad is the current user experience on mobile devices? The Nielsen Norman Group released a study July 20 and web usability expert Jakob Nielsen, who worked on it, didn’t sugar-coat the results: The phrase “mobile usability” is pretty much an oxymoron. It’s neither easy nor pleasant to use the Web on mobile devices. Observing [...]
Lots to understand about teen media use
Interest in the report authored by U.K. teen Matthew Robson says a lot about how much we fret over how young people consume media. London-based market research firm Morgan Stanley published the report, authored by their 15-year-old intern, last week. As the Globe and Mail reports today, the paper, “How Teenagers Consume Media,” has since [...]
XHTML 2, we hardly knew ya
I don’t teach much HTML anymore. But, as background to my journalism instruction, I’ve been talking up the benefits of XHTML to my students for a couple of years now. It brought rigour to HTML, encouraging cleaner markup, broader standards and generally a loftier vision for structuring content on the web. The journalism students who [...]
Reporting, distribution tools from Google
So it isn’t enough for Google to put newspapers out of business; now it’s targeting j-schools. Seriously … there’s some quite good, basic reporting advice in the new YouTube Reporters’ Center. My favourites of the bunch are the Associated Press’s: How to Pitch a News Story — 2:11 of jam-packed practical advice — and NPR’s [...]
Authored by Tim Currie, Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the