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Bill Kuykendall

Survey Finds Slack Standards at Magazine Web Sites - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Only a third of the Web sites reported making a profit.
  • More than half the magazines put their entire print editions online free. Four percent put all or almost all print content behind a paywall, and 10 percent put some of it behind a paywall. The rest post only some of their print output online, but all of it free.
  • About 49 percent of unprofitable Web sites gave away all of their content, and 65 percent of profitable Web sites did the same.
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  • “The conventional wisdom is that you have to be there first in order to get traffic, and you need traffic in order to sell ads, therefore you do not have time to do conventional copy-editing and fact-checking.”
  • More than 40 percent of the sites depended on staff members to approve comments at their discretion, while just over 10 percent did not moderate comments at all. A slightly larger percentage used an automatic system to filter for comments that included offensive words or spam.
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Interior Designers Revive Domino Style With Lonny - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • Lonny looks and acts like a print magazine, not a Web site or a blog. It has pages to turn, a table of contents and full-page ads. But it offers Web-only benefits like zoomable, clickable images, so readers can inspect a lamp displayed in a photograph of someone’s living room and then click to buy it.
  • Lonny is published every other month using Issuu, a Web platform where, for $19 a month, anyone can upload a PDF and instantly create an online magazine that looks like a print one.
  • “you’ll know a new narrative form has emerged when you have to consume a particular story on an iPad to truly understand its content, and reading it on any other platform simply wouldn’t work.”
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What Is It | Zinepal - 2 views

  • Zinepal turns existing web content into printable PDFs and eBooks in the ePub, Amazon Kindle and Mobipocket formats. It is the easiest way to repurpose your existing web content and reach additional audiences using eBooks and printable PDFs.
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Is "Undesigned" the Next Great Web Trend? Fat Chance | Co.Design - 1 views

  • my hunch is that users don't actually want to be as literally in "control" as designers. We just want stuff to work.
  • good Web design often has more in common with the invisible soft-science of industrial design than the in-your-face, "art directed" aestheticism that many of us associate it with.
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Smashing Magazine - 2 views

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    Innovation in web design
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Google Font API - Google Code - 0 views

  • The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web page. Benefits of the Google Font API include: A choice of high quality open source fonts. Works in most browsers. Extremely easy to use.
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A New Plan for a New Year. Category: Editorials from The Berkeley Daily Planet - Thursd... - 0 views

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    California newspaper goes web-only due to declining ad revenues
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Computers Turn Flat Photos into 3-D Buildings - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a system that will blend teamwork and collaboration with powerful graphics algorithms to create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods and potentially even entire cities.
  • To improve the quality of their rendering capabilities, the researchers plan to integrate their computing system with a social game that will permit competing teams to add images where they are most needed to improve the quality of the visual models. The PhotoCity game is already being played by teams of students at the University of Washington and Cornell, and the researchers plan to open it to the public in an effort to collect three-dimensional renderings in cities like New York and San Francisco. Contestants will be able to use either an iPhone application that uses the phone’s camera, or upload collections of digital images.
  • “The obvious thing to do is to try to mobilize a lot of people and get them to go out and take snapshots that contribute to this 3-D reconstruction,” he said. “But maybe if enough people are involved someone will come up with a better idea of how to go about doing this.”
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  • To entice volunteers, the researchers have created a Web site: photocitygame.com. Anyone who wants to be a “custodian” of a particular building or place can begin by uploading pictures of the site. To maintain control they will need to be part of the group that contributes the most photos, in a capture-the-flag-like competition.
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Anderson: iPad Will Solve Magazines' Business Problem - 0 views

  • Presently, online versions of magazines lose "the coherence and majesty of the [printed] medium," said Anderson. Tablets, on the other hand, offer impressive functionality, such as 360-degree views and iPhone-like screen sliding, plus collapsing and layering -- all of which make the user experience vastly more compelling than the Web,
  • Also revolutionary from an editorial and design perspective is that magazine staffers -- now editing for print and the Web in separate work flows -- will be able to edit for print and tablets simultaneously.
  • tablet renderings of traditional magazines will draw consumers who weren't magazine readers before.
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  • "This is a better vehicle for customer relationships. It's not a distribution platform, but a presentation platform,"
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Two Years Into Tablets, Conde Nast Delivers Tablet Metrics | MediaWorks - Advertising Age - 1 views

  • The growing body of overall information on tablet readership is reinforcing some early impressions that are promising for magazines on tablets, according to Conde Nast. Readers typically swipe through tablet editions from front to back, for example, the same way they work their way through print editions. They browse -- taking in ads as they go -- instead of jumping directly to specific articles the way web surfers do. "Consumer behavior with digital editions of magazines is very much like their behavior with print editions of magazines, and very much unlike their behavior with websites," Mr. McDonald said. Digital-edition readers are also still younger but more affluent than magazines' print readers, Conde Nast said, although the disparity has narrowed as tablet ownership has grown and Amazon and Barnes & Noble have introduced devices that are cheaper than the iPad. And ads with some level of interactivity -- a hotlink at a minimum -- continue to usually hold readers' attention longer than static ads.
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Better User Experience With Storytelling - Part One - Smashing Magazine - 1 views

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    "In this article we'll explore how user experience professionals and designers are using storytelling to create compelling experiences that build human connections."
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Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2 - Smashing Magazine - 0 views

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    "Concluding this two-part article, we hear from creative professionals who are leading the way in this relatively new world of combining the craft of storytelling with user experience. We'll also see how storytelling can be applied to more than just interactive experiences: we find it in everything from packaging to architecture."
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10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines « Smashing Magazine - 1 views

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    Research and commentaries on reading habits and suggestions for making interactive publications more usable.
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YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year - 0 views

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    Great use of animated graphics: Demographic comparison of China and USA
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iPad vs Kindle vs Netbooks vs Books: What's Best for Students? | AceOnlineSchools.com -... - 0 views

  • The iPad might face similar hurdles. Thanks to its multiple functionality (not to be confused with multitasking), it will no doubt be popular as an entertainment device for surfing the web, playing games and listening to music, but from an educational standpoint, these functions might serve to distract students from their scholastic pursuits. Furthermore, while some might view the iPad’s touch screen as an advantage, when trying to take notes, it might prove unwieldy.
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Pulitzer Winner Gets Apple's Reconsideration for iPhone - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In addition to being the first Pulitzer for online-only work, it is the first awarded solely for animated video, as opposed to traditional cartoon strips or panels. Mr. Fiore is also the first self-syndicated editorial cartoonist to win the prize.
  • Cases like Mr. Fiore’s have raised questions about Apple’s policies toward apps with news content; Ryan Chittum, a writer for cjr.org, the Columbia Journalism Review Web site, asserted on Thursday that news media groups should withdraw their new iPad applications “unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish.”
  • “Sure, mine might get approved, but what about someone who hasn’t won a Pulitzer and who is maybe making a better political app than mine?” he asked. “Do you need some media frenzy to get an app approved that has political material?”
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