Richard Prince from the Maynard Journalism institute called me last night to ask about commercialappeal.com’s coverage of Isaac Hayes death. He quoted me extensively on our breaking news coverage in his blog/column. It’s about half-way down the page. We owned the breaking coverage of the Soul Man’s death, but everyone [...]

Since we moved to Memphis, we’ve visited several different churches as we are looking for a church home for our family. When I’m investigating the church the first thing I check out is the church website for some basic information about the church. So the church’s site gives me the [...]

There was an interesting article this past week in the New Times technology section on the practice of flipping web sites. It works pretty much like flipping a house. First, you find a web site that has been around while and has decent search engine ranking and a base level [...]

MSNBC is showing off screen grabs of their new redesign. It looks like they are dropping their vertical navigation down the page below their top stories module. Also, they are flipping their top story module and listing of top story and within their top story module they are flipping their [...]

The Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City, Okla. has reorganized it’s management structure moving Chris Reen, VP of Sales and Marketing, to Executive VP of the Oklahoma Publishing Group overseeing News & Information, Advertising and Marketing, Audience Development and Community Engagement. “Harmonizing our business, editorial, Web and technical assets is key [...]

The other day I logged into my mortgage company’s site to check what we owed on our house that we are selling. I probably haven’t logged into that site in a year or two. The next day I had phone call from my mortgage company checking to see if everything [...]

Since the beginning of the web, web designers have continually worried about the fold and fought the fold. The fold is the mythical line that denotes what the user sees when they first visit a web site and what the user does not see (below the fold). (I believe the [...]

Over the years, I’ve written my own customized CMS running off a MS SQL or Access DB and vbscript and played around with a quite a few open source CMSes that were mostly one-offs of blogging platforms. I would always revert to writing my own customized versions because the open [...]

The Fayetteville, Arkansas City Councilnow has a blogspot blog where they are posting the agenda’s for the upcoming city council meetings. I think they are looking for citizens to comment on the different parts of the agenda, but there are no comments so far. We’ll have to check back and [...]

Since I wielded the shovel quiet a few years ago, I haven’t understood why a newspaper hasn’t stood up and said online news is a different business from print newspaper and shouldn’t require us shoveling the entire print contents on to the web site early every morning. Well, Howard Owen [...]