I’ve always been amazed atPoynter’s Eyetrack studies examining what users really spend their time looking at as they visit a web page. I really haven’t spent much time looking atEyetrack III which came in 2004, but even two years later there is a lot of good information to be had. [...]

Most newspaper websites put off their web redesigns as long as possible. After four years, The Commercial Appeal gave their website a complete overhaul yesterday. The CA’s redesign is of particular interest to me because I personally participated in a previous redesign when I worked in their New Media department. [...]

In Steve Outings latest The Stop the Presses column he looks at how newspapers are trying their hand at multimedia and experimenting with podcasts and vodcasts. I’ve never heard the term vodcast before, but from the context I can assume that it refers to a video based podcast for the [...]

Newspaper designer Mario Garcia is taking on the Wall Street Journal. In an attempt to squeeze the page size by 20 percent, they are discussing increased “fusion with the Internet.” The new design will include more web addresses, more info found on line, an index to individuals found in the [...]

A few days ago, I revealed my daily media diet. Today, I attempt to look at my weekly media diet. It’s a little harder for me to outline my weekly consumption than my daily consumption because it varies from week to week, but I’ve tried to give an overview of [...]

I’ve spent some time this past week watching some of the Winter Olympics on TV. The events when people actually compete with each other instead of against the clock or a judge seem to interest me the most. Since the Olympics aren’t seen live on TV here in the U.S., [...]

Lately, I’ve had a lot of people ask me how to create and publish a podcast. Even though I don’t have my own podcast, I understand the concepts of recording, editing, exporting to mp3, uploading to a server and creating a RSS feed to run my own podcast, but I [...]

Daniel Pulliam from the blog GetReligionhas written an interesting piece about why US newspapers respect Muslim’s wishes about using images of Muhammed, but ignore other religion’s wishes about displaying their sacred images in a less than perfect light. In particular he notes that the US media has illustrated stories of [...]

A federal government grants web site won’t work on Macs and grant seekers are being forced to use PCs to apply for research grants. An AP story on MSNBC said that 30 percent of the systems used by researchers at one university (Cleveland State) were Macs. Normally, when you discuss [...]

“I love the Internet. Part fantasy, party community, and you get to pay your bills naked.” –Must Love Dogs(I wouldn’t recommend the movie, but this quote was pretty good)