Marketing guru Seth Godin wrote two great bits last week on how the news is screwed up.
First: The New York Times should only publish something if it’s true and important.
If I were editing the Times, I’d look at every single editorial feature, every single article and ask if it met either of the two things [...]
A recent interview with the design director of NYTimes.com revealed something wonderful, they still write their HTML by hand.
It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. [...]
Google Earth, New York Times Team Up
You can now browse New York Times news based on geography. Has the New York Times become hyperlocal, even though the content may not have that perspective. if all goes according to plan, the news will be updated every 15 minutes.
The Center for Locative Media
As educators and amateur neo-geographers, [...]
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