JSTOR recently announced that it has reconfigured its user interface using responsive design techniques. While nascent in STM and scholarly publishing, the user interface design world has been abuzz with the potential of responsive web design for some time and a number of sites using responsive web design techniques are now appearing.
Representing data graphically is always tricky. It doesn’t help when a journalist misses many opportunities to verify the data, provide context, and ask some probing questions.
Digital publishing continues to borrow its shape from its predecessors in print. Truly creative individuals are necessary to work with new media on their own terms.
In the world of social media, when you huff, and you puff, and you blow a house down, there are new consequences.
Publishing materials under a trusted brand, then attempting to disavow that content when complaints arise about bias and professionalism doesn’t reflect well on the New York Times, paper or corporation. Having a portfolio of products requires responsible management of the brand constellation. Hiding out in the thicket of brands is craven.
Print aficionados and newspaper companies are rushing to bridge a chasm, but even their ACME product may not be enough.
The network effect is a peculiar thing. It can be about lolcats or insurrection. Either way, it’s a new and different power.
Incrementalism is a tempting path forward, both familiar and seemingly safe. But the squeeze is on.
The downside of silent filters becomes crystal clear in this important talk.
The Drudge Report provides a useful service and drives a disproportionate amount of news traffic. Could academics be disciplined enough to emulate it?
Privacy concerns seem aimed at the small stuff, but could expand into a system of censorship.
A new “instabook” about Bin Laden hit the Kindle store about a week after the events. What might this mean for that space between books and magazines?
They’ve made a movie about a newspaper’s travails in the Internet age.
The media’s flip coverage of science is certainly a problem — but atheoretical studies are a waste of everyone’s time.
An entire issue of a society’s newsmagazine is taken down, and an editor resigns, after a slightly uncomfortable attempt at humor. We’re talkin’ ’bout overreaction.