Cyberjournalism links

John Russial

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General syllabus information

• Introductory information
  
• Articles and commentary
  
• Writing, editing and related design issues
  
• More design and color issues
  
• HTML references
  
• Several student publications on the web
  
• Online media links
  
• Brave New World stuff
  
• Management and business
  

• Internet History By Vinton Cerf, one of the founders.
• A one-page personal history of the Web By Tim Berners-Lee, who invented it.
• A FAQ from Berners-Lee Table of contents
  

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  Writing, editing and design issues

  • Alertbox Software engineer Jakob Nielsen's excellent monthly column about web issues. Contains many pages with links to research results about online use and usability. Time spent exploring this site is time well spent. Examples are:
    
    • Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace
    • Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
      • Top 10 New Mistakes
    • Some site design issues
    • How users read on the web Nielsen's answer is: They don't.
    • Thoughts on animation, audio and video
  • User Interface Engineering An organization that does usability research; some information is available on this site; some is available for $$
  • Editing for the Web A supplement to an editing text that deals with editing for online publications.
  • Sun site design This is a bit old (early '98) but it outlines a redesign from a usability perspective. Also by Nielsen
  • Links about human-computer interface issues
  • Yale web style manual Addresses a wide range of web publication issues.
  • Web Pages that Suck Learn good design by studying some not-so-good design.
  • Mindy McAdams' site. Good discussions about online writing and design issues. McAdams, a former copyeditor, is a consultant to online publishers.
  • Readying Publications for the Web By McAdams. A good discussion of linking, editing and readability. Driving a Newspaper on the Information Highway Thoughts on writing for web newspapers. Also by McAdams.
  • How Digital Ink was created By McAdams, who helped create it
  • Hypertext breakdown A discussion of the elements of cybermedia. By McAdams.
  • Guyana A trip to Guyana from three perspectives. An interesting early experiment in writing for the web.
  • A brief bibliography from McAdams
  • Good Documents A site devoted to writing business documents. Some commonsense tips for any kind of writing on the Web.
  • King of the Highway Content and the web. By Matthew Cutler
  • Making News Work on the Web By a former HotWired columnist
  • Creating compelling hypertexts By Thom Lieb of Towson University
  • Megastories From the site's "who we are" page: Out There News is a news agency born on the Net. It pioneers a non-linear journalism in which people create their own experience of the news rather than passively receiving information. A web zine aimed at writers and editors who work in online media. There's also a mailing list you can join
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  Design and color

  • Appropriate Design By Thom Lieb
  • Information design By Matthew Cutler
  • A Voice of Experience Comments about web design from a well-known print designer.
  • Colored type gone crazy
  • Interface By Joe Gillespie. A column about interface design, from High-Five.
  • Web Page Design for Designers By Joe Gillespie
  • Webmonkey (Design) From Wired. Includes Web Design 101
  • A site created by Professor Stuart Moulthrop at the University of Baltimore School of Communication Design that includes links to useful design reference information and a color index.
  • Here's a clickable safe-color map by Victor Engel.
  • Here's The Browser-Safe Color Palette By Lynda Weinman.
  • A color picker
  • The big deal about bandwidth Common-sensical column about the bandwidth-limitation problem. The end is a sales pitch.
  • Background page from Netscape
  • Backgrounds from Baylor U.
  • How to create effective web sites
  • A site devoted to typography raises some questions about type online. Check out the studies link.
  • Razorfish.com Contains the above typography site as well as a lot of other cutting-edge stuff, including a story told in nonlinear form. I find it difficult to navigate through this site, but I'm not a 20-something New York-type way-cool person.
  • Gif animations A fairly clear explanation of animated graphics from the C-Net site
  • Animation of news graphics GIF animations are big in ads; what about news?
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  HTML references

  • Webmonkey HTML cheat sheet
  • A more advanced HTML reference
  • A compendium of HTML elements
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  Online media links

  • AJR Newslink's list of electronic papers
  • Editor & Publisher's list
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer A sentimental favorite. An easy-to-navigate site with sections and story summaries linked to full text. I am getting a bit tired of the animated ads.
  • The Los Angeles Times Another approach to "front page" design.
  • The San Jose Mercury News An "old-timer" in online
  • Oregon Live The Newhouse Corp. site that is connected with The Oregonian
  • The Register Guard Started in December 1997
  • The Roseburg News-Review site This small-paper site was first set up by James Sinks, a J School grad
  • The Emerald's online edition
  • The Boston Globe's Online site Offers access to a number of Boston-area media organizations
  • CNN Interactive A "print/multimedia" version of CNN
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  Management and business

  • My media management page More information and research about online media, particularly about the business side.
  • The Web Career Research Center Information about how to be a webmaster. From CIO Online.
  • A research agenda for e-papers From the Cox Institute for Newspaper Management Studies
  • The future of paper? From Wired's Hotwired site.
  • Newspaper chains losing millions in online From E&P's online site

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