Last night, the McCain web team launched a graphic redesign of their campaign website (feature set looks more or less the same). I like the new look a lot and think it is a real improvement over the well done second iteration and depressing first version. This is a very nice looking website....
Continue ReadingEarlier today news leaked out that the comment management system Disqus (background here) has enabled video commenting on sites that use the service through a partnership with Seesmic. Basically this means that people can post video comments in addition to regular old text comments in response to articles, blog posts,...
Continue ReadingI posted a link on our Twitter account a few days back about Jim Brady from the Washington Post’s call for commenters on newspaper websites to post using their real names. In doing away with anonymous commenting, he is hoping to improve the generally low level of discourse you find on many media sites. ...
Continue ReadingAt the New Communications Forum conference last week, Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News mentioned during a presentation that 2/3rds of the traffic to the paper’s website comes from news aggregators (like Google News) and search engines. This figure was higher than I expected, so I mentally filed away the tidbit to write about at some point....
Continue ReadingAt the New Communications Forum conference I attended last week, Twitter was the topic of a great deal of discussion. During panels and hallway chats, three things became really clear to me:
(1) There are a lot of smart people who have no idea what Twitter is, or who only know about it in the vaguest sense....
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