• Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
  Couldn’t help but quote this: “Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club sit
  (tags: usability, journalism, websites)
• Email Newsletter Usability (Executive Summary)
  newsletters feel personal because they arrive in users’ inboxes, and users have an ongoing relationship with them. Newsletters also have a social aspect, as users often forward them to colleagues and friends.
  (tags: usability,)
• Reading on the Web (Alertbox)
  People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences.
  (tags: usability,)
• Communications, News, and Newsletters on Intranets: 60 design guidelines
  Intranet Usability Guidelines, vol. 4:
  Communications (Including News and Newsletters)
  (tags: usability,)
• Usability Guidelines: Web Design for Users With Disabilities
  75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology
  (tags: usability,)

• Engagement 101, Online Journalism Credibility
  58 percent of editors said letting journalists join online conversations and give personal views would harm journalism, but only 36 percent of the public agreed.
  (tags: journalism,)

• BASIC principles of online journalism: I is for Interactivity « Online Journalism Blog
  “Interactivity is not video, or ‘multimedia’; it is not flashy bells and whistles. At its core, it is about giving the user control.”
  (tags: interaction journalism,)
• Exploring a Derelict Building with QIK
  Markmedia explores a derelict building in Stockholm and streams the experience over his mobile phone.
  (tags: video,)
• NPR: SHOULD NPR LINK TO VIOLENT ANTI-MUSLIM VIDEO?
  In the pre-Internet world, the so-called mainstream media played the role of gatekeeper: determining with authority what the public did and did not need to know. Much more editorial censorship existed. But now the public can get any information it wants
  (tags: journalism, ethics)

• Pete Ashton’s Blog » Virgin Media CEO attacks net neutrality
  “Virgin’s customers are “content providers”. A few years ago I would have accepted I was in the minority but these days nearly everyone I know is publishing something or other online be it photos, blogs, video or audio.”
  (tags: innovation multimedia,)

Twitter gets its own song courtesy of journalism student Alana Taylor:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrmTJWbmdU]

“…not many people do it, but me and Scoble do.”

“The cool thing about Twitter is you get to meet new people. You even get to stalk the famous ones too.”

[via Fred Wilson]

• TwitResponse: Twitter + Autoresponder = TwitResponse
  Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want. Need a message sent 2 hours from now, no problem, setup a TwitResponse. via @bounder
  (tags: twitter, innovation)
• YouTube – Exclusive! Leaked! How to make Viral Videos!
  not exclusive, not leaked, but maybe by linking to it I prove the point.
  (tags: video,)
• Twitter For Sale on Ebay: One Careful User Only : Ewan Spence’s All New Musings.
  “Andrew Baron has decided to sell his Twitter account to the highest bidder…On offer through Ebay are his account, login and his 1387 followers. Bidding is currently just under $500.”"
  (tags: twitter,)
• Wombles adopt US accents
  A protest against imported children’s programmes.
  (tags: video,)
• Site Search Smackdown: currybetdotnet – Martin Belam’s blog
  I’ve been running a series of Newspaper Site Search Engine Smackdowns to see which papers were able to index their own content faster than Google could. It turned out that the answer was not many…”"
  (tags: websites seo)
• 10 tips for integrating your del.icio.us links into your blog – currybetdotnet – 5 February, 2008
  Publishing daily lists of links in this way gives a blogger an opportunity to ‘micro-blog’ about items they’ve read but haven’t wanted to or had the time to write a full-length post about, and to add another regular stream of content to their blog.
  (tags: bookmarking, blogging)

• YouTube – Seero: Mapping live video to create a unique form of content.
  via http://www.peteashton.com
  (tags: video, innovation)
• How The Birmingham Post scooped the world – with a Twitter – Birmingham Post – News Blog
  I had a chance for a live test on Wednesday evening when I used my own Twitter account to break the news of the arrest of Karren Brady and David Sullivan.
  (tags: twitter, innovation)
• YouTube – [Channel4 News] Jon Snow Singing Rick Roll Song!
  Only just found this! Hillarious!