Newspaper execs hopeful for industry’s future
Gary Pruitt, chairman and chief executive officer of McClatchy, and Dean Singleton, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, agreed that newspapers aren’t headed for extinction despite the slow erosion of readers. The industry is holding up better than television and radio, which are fragmenting.But the Internet is another matter.
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website
The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.
» The new meaning of programming | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
But what happens when broadcast networks start putting up TV shows on the web, like ABC and Fox announced last week. Put another way, what happens to the value and need for traditional media programming when a show is placed on a non-linear medium like the web? Does making a show viewable on-demand negate the need for programming?
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
The F pattern’s implications for Web design are clear and show the importance of following the guidelines for writing for the Web instead of repurposing print content:
- Users won’t read your text thoroughly in a word-by-word manner. Exhaustive reading is rare, especially when prospective customers are conducting their initial research to compile a shortlist of vendors. Yes, some people will read more, but most won’t.
- The first two paragraphs must state the most important information. There’s some hope that users will actually read this material, though they’ll probably read more of the first paragraph than the second.
- Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words that users will notice when scanning down the left side of your content in the final stem of their F-behavior. They’ll read the third word on a line much less often than the first two words.
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[video] Oops! Chevy gets trashed in commercial contest | CNET News.com
People use “make your own ad” contest to blast SUVChevrolet created a contest to let users make their own ad for the Chevy Tahoe, but the company let a couple slip by under its nose depicting the SUV as a gas-guzzling, environment-destroying machine. Here are two clips from Chevy’s site.
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