Making fun of bad logo designs is lame. So, let’s say that Xerox’s new logo is just fine, if a little curvy/Speed Racery looking, and move onto that weird ball thing next to it.
Around the office here we are thinking what it might represent. Surely there will be a corporate short story written about how it moves the company smoothly into its next phase or some equally ridiculous metaphor....
Continue ReadingIn the summer I wrote a post vaguely complaining about the deterioration in the design of Barack Obama’s campaign website.
Here is the site when it first launched early in 2007:
I liked this. The design was clean and the site was really easy to navigate....
Continue ReadingThe desire to cover local communities is nothing new to newspapers. However, it is hard for a paper that covers a large area to focus on events that are happening in all neighborhoods in the circulation area. Time, page space, and budgets all constrain such coverage, but some papers are finding ways to cover hyperlocal news....
Continue ReadingJerry Johnson of Jerry's Juice Bar fame, and a friend, colleague, client and golf partner has put up a blog called "Taking The Blogosphere Seriously ." He's got some trenchant things to say about both the Serious and Not Serious sides of the Blogosphere. Give it a read and add your comments....
Continue ReadingMy friend Kevin Anderson, an online journalist, wrote an interesting post titled "What is an online journalist?" yesterday on his blog Strange Attractor.
The gist of the post focuses on how it is still common in contemporary journalistic culture to feel that the Internet is not a medium suited for unique quality news reporting and analysis. ...
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