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Has there ever been so much public blowback from a magazine’s own writers about a site redesign?

via Gillian Reagan, Atlantic Bloggers Blowback On New Site Design, Editors Say The Site Is User-Friendly, Needs To Make Money.

03.02.10 | Editorial & Programming, Launch/Relaunch

 

[T]reating blogs as a series of headlines, designed to maximize pageviews, is a deep misunderstanding of blogs, their reader communities and their integrity. I hope they get restored to their previous coherence, and these amorphous “channels” gain some editorial identity. I hope writers like Fallows and Goldberg aren’t treated as random fodder – anchors! – for “channels”. I believe in the Atlantic as a place for writing. The redesign seems to me to ooze casual indifference to that and to the respect that individual writers deserve.

via Andrew Sullivan, quoted by Adrian Chen, Borg-like Atlantic Redesign Sparks Blogger Identity Crisis – The Atlantic – Gawker.

03.01.10 | Editorial & Programming, Interaction Design, Launch/Relaunch

 

He also says that ultimately MSN will customize its content to a users’ interests. Already, the site is testing topic-centric versions of its home page. However, Jorgensen says that the site could eventually automatically customize content based on a user’s behavior and interests. (more…)

12.14.09 | Content Strategy, Launch/Relaunch

The Reuters.com family of products which is seventeen web sites, globally mobile applications and mobile browsing experiences offline and then also digital out of home is really designed to provide information and news to business professionals. [....] So through Reuters.com we're actually able to provide a retail face to the depth and breadth of Reuters content that's primarily designed for b-b marketplace. via Beet.TV: Reuters Mobile News Strategy: Launches iPhone and Nokia Apps.

12.14.09 | Launch/Relaunch, Products & Services, Video

The first thing I noticed on AnnArbor.com is, well, the first thing I was supposed to notice. The bare home page doesn’t even try to do the traditional newspaper editor’s job of defining which stories are the most important or pressing. It’s simply a time-sequenced river of news. Think of it as Times Wire, except without the choice to click back to The New York Times’ spiffy home page. This is the home page.

via In Ann Arbor, designing a news site that doesn’t look like a news site » Nieman Journalism Lab.

In Ann Arbor, designing a news site that doesn’t look like a news site

09.02.09 | Editorial & Programming, Launch/Relaunch

Related: NBC unveils the first of its hyperlocal city "content centers," this one for the San Francisco Bay Area: Check Out the New NBCBayArea.com.

08.07.09 | Launch/Relaunch

Curating the Best of the Web

A new series on NYTimes.com by Jenna Wortham.

05.15.09 | Launch/Relaunch

How to Launch an Intranet: Penn State Outreach Case Study

04.16.09 | Launch/Relaunch, Theory & Practice

Condé Nast Inks Distribution Deal With Hulu

03.13.09 | Business Strategy, Launch/Relaunch

 

The idea for Media Cloud emerged through a series discussions between faculty and friends of the Berkman Center. The conversations would follow a predictable pattern: one person would ask a provocative question about what was happening in the media landscape, someone else would suggest interesting follow-on inquiries, and everyone would realize that a good answer would require heavy number crunching. (more…)

03.11.09 | Launch/Relaunch, Products & Services

 



Magnify.net is expected to announce tomorrow a partnership with New York magazine’s nymag.com to build and deploy a Web 2.0 video service. Magnify will build a custom video player and provide encoding, discovery and “curation.”

via New York Magazine to Build Out Video Content – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com)

02.18.09 | Business Strategy, Launch/Relaunch

Newsweek executives hope they are creating a new niche, but the magazine will not have the terrain to itself. To varying degrees, it will be plying turf already worked by The Economist, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and others.

via Newsweek Plans Makeover to Fit a Smaller Audience – NYTimes.com

02.09.09 | Editorial & Programming, Launch/Relaunch

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