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Let’s bring UX design to the news experience
I read a great post by Jared Spool this morning on ‘The curse of a mobile strategy’. The killer pull-out quote for me is this one: The problem with a mobile strategy is it’s about the medium of delivery, not what is being delivered. It focuses on the technology questions. Do we build a native app or a web-based …
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Canadian court rules that posting hyperlink ‘doesn’t constitute publishing defamation’
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that posting a hyperlink to defamatory material does not constitute publishing the defamation: In its unanimous decision to dismiss the [Crookes vs Newton] case, the court said a hyperlink, by itself, should never be considered “publication” of the content to which it refers. But that doesn’t mean internet …
A simple test for whether people will pay for news
So you’re a daily newspaper guy and you think people have always paid for news. Fair enough. Some of your readers probably do pay for news. But if you want to charge for your news online you’re going to need to know roughly how many people are willing to pay for it so you can …
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Hot metal: old films about how newspapers were made
There’s something irresistible about the old print industry footage kicking around on YouTube. These are from the 1950s. Making a newspaper Perfect if you want to know what ‘the stone’ looked like and where the term proofreading came from. https://youtu.be/G8cCS3o62iI ‘Public opinion in a Democracy’