Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Many Tentacled Media: We have our hands in everything flashy
Three journalistic sites that tell stories in multimedia are 360degrees.com. It is an unbiased look at the stories of those working, serving, and imprisioned by the criminal justice system. This is told using recorded audio, videoblogged interviews, even 360 degree image views inside jailbird's cells, (on of which reminded me of arjona in a scary way). It has links and a glossary for anyone that does not imidately understand the work being presented to them, all housed within the one stop shop place of the site.
There is a well researched timeline of the punishment and crime history. Each stylishly playing off one another. In the best and most online journalistic feature we can join in the dilogue on the forums and an E-debate platform. It's the best non-major news site I've seen.
It even provides a reading list, and contact information for organizations taking action against crime in the community.
Where and how did multimedia add value to these stories? (2) Where and how did multimedia not work right? (Use McAdams' rationale)
The Author of A Revolution: Medialens.org, Jazzy Bessie and Heston
Medialens.org is a sporadically, if weekly updated blog aimed at correction...as in "We hope to raise public awareness of the underlying systemic failings of the corporate media to report the world around us honestly, fairly and accurately. Fundamentally, we wish to reduce suffering wherever it occurs.." They correct our mistakes or try to. It's very British. As any good journalist knows, it should be made note of. If that note is a post-it or setting the site as a homepage is relative to the journalist.
A summation of their most recent article would be, Tibet + 20Th Century Invasion + China = Illegitimate Occupation. Iraq + Afghanistan + US Armed Forces + Torture of Small Peoples = X
In traditional media substitute X for the phase Insurgency Seen Too Optimistic. In medialens.org substitute X for phrase Illegitimate Occupation. Evil Media is sugarcoating total tragedies and failures in Iraq. USA out of Iraq.
That's about what you missed.
In other news, some important people died, as they are prone to do from time to time.
What we do not know is that we have lost a great man. What we do know is that we have lost Charlton Heston. Whom we knew from Planet of The Apes, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and the comically tragic figure with cold dead hands on a gun, the same one that walked in the Civil Rights era marches in the spirit of the thinking man's macho man, Mr. Heston. I remember a not so Mexican detective from a touch of evil. Mr. Confidence all 6 foot, 3 inches of him is gone. We aren't any wiser for it.
But I put to you that someone more important than that has fled our conscious. If he was ever there at all. His name was Simon Bessie. You've never heard of him. Far away from prying eyes and rugged good looks, he died in Lyme. He was not 93. He was 20 years forgotten.
Simon Michael Bessie is the reason that you enjoy such great literary pop cultural references. He wrote Jazz Journalism. He tried to get great injustices told. Like the freeing of Vladimir Bukovsky, another man you haven't heard about.
In 1971, in The New York Review of Books, He cosigned and petitioned this letter to the editors.
"We are writers and publishers who are deeply concerned that the Moscow poet and human rights advocate Vladimir Bukovsky is being confined under prison camp conditions which, in view of his state of health, gravely endanger his life."
Bukovsky risked his life in 1971 to get several hundred pages documents to the United States to show the horrors political prisioners were experiencing as they were forced into concentration camps and mental institutions. For this, Bukovsky was subjected to the same horrors and treatment he described in the leaked reports because he "refused to recant his views."
His life for about twelve years was as follows. "He is confined in a punishment barracks, on greatly reduced rations, deprived of the right to have visits, mail, legal counsel, and medical treatment essential to his survival."
Bessie helped him emigrate gaining him the freedom, releasing one of the greatest voices for soviet human rights in his day and galvanizing forces dissent within Russia. He has become an influential figure helping to aid the rebuilding of the Post-Communist world, advocating for artistic freedom. Bessie helped him get there.
He called the Godfather garbage after publishing the authors first work. Mario Puzo is a great (LOVE HIM SO MUCH) writer. But one must wonder what might have been had gangsters not achieved a renewed status of 70s exploitation glory which eventually translated into 1990s-millennial retro cool. For one thing, Bulgaria's Murder Mystery writer, Georgi Stoev, an author patterning himself on Puzo's work, would still be alive. He died yesterday FYI.
The best thing he did was for journalist though was Jazz Journalism. He is the author of Jazz Journalism. The end all compendium of the daily news and tabloids. He saved and bound pages that might have been destroyed or lost on microfiche in obscure city libraries and other literary enclaves. He gave us a look at the flashy layouts and picture saturated headlines. The sensation and sultry. The new standard of news speak set by the lightly yellowed, roaring twenties epistles whose work has now been translated to sepia toned masterpieces of pre-war Hollywood sex, sin and death that try for Oscar season each year.
He printed the first version of online journalism. The Reporters and Stringers that gave in and formed public demand for interconnectedness and entertainment. And For this achievement, this culmination and keeping of the memory of Journalism's modern roots. I salute him.
A summation of their most recent article would be, Tibet + 20Th Century Invasion + China = Illegitimate Occupation. Iraq + Afghanistan + US Armed Forces + Torture of Small Peoples = X
In traditional media substitute X for the phase Insurgency Seen Too Optimistic. In medialens.org substitute X for phrase Illegitimate Occupation. Evil Media is sugarcoating total tragedies and failures in Iraq. USA out of Iraq.
That's about what you missed.
In other news, some important people died, as they are prone to do from time to time.
What we do not know is that we have lost a great man. What we do know is that we have lost Charlton Heston. Whom we knew from Planet of The Apes, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur and the comically tragic figure with cold dead hands on a gun, the same one that walked in the Civil Rights era marches in the spirit of the thinking man's macho man, Mr. Heston. I remember a not so Mexican detective from a touch of evil. Mr. Confidence all 6 foot, 3 inches of him is gone. We aren't any wiser for it.
But I put to you that someone more important than that has fled our conscious. If he was ever there at all. His name was Simon Bessie. You've never heard of him. Far away from prying eyes and rugged good looks, he died in Lyme. He was not 93. He was 20 years forgotten.
Simon Michael Bessie is the reason that you enjoy such great literary pop cultural references. He wrote Jazz Journalism. He tried to get great injustices told. Like the freeing of Vladimir Bukovsky, another man you haven't heard about.
In 1971, in The New York Review of Books, He cosigned and petitioned this letter to the editors.
"We are writers and publishers who are deeply concerned that the Moscow poet and human rights advocate Vladimir Bukovsky is being confined under prison camp conditions which, in view of his state of health, gravely endanger his life."
Bukovsky risked his life in 1971 to get several hundred pages documents to the United States to show the horrors political prisioners were experiencing as they were forced into concentration camps and mental institutions. For this, Bukovsky was subjected to the same horrors and treatment he described in the leaked reports because he "refused to recant his views."
His life for about twelve years was as follows. "He is confined in a punishment barracks, on greatly reduced rations, deprived of the right to have visits, mail, legal counsel, and medical treatment essential to his survival."
Bessie helped him emigrate gaining him the freedom, releasing one of the greatest voices for soviet human rights in his day and galvanizing forces dissent within Russia. He has become an influential figure helping to aid the rebuilding of the Post-Communist world, advocating for artistic freedom. Bessie helped him get there.
He called the Godfather garbage after publishing the authors first work. Mario Puzo is a great (LOVE HIM SO MUCH) writer. But one must wonder what might have been had gangsters not achieved a renewed status of 70s exploitation glory which eventually translated into 1990s-millennial retro cool. For one thing, Bulgaria's Murder Mystery writer, Georgi Stoev, an author patterning himself on Puzo's work, would still be alive. He died yesterday FYI.
The best thing he did was for journalist though was Jazz Journalism. He is the author of Jazz Journalism. The end all compendium of the daily news and tabloids. He saved and bound pages that might have been destroyed or lost on microfiche in obscure city libraries and other literary enclaves. He gave us a look at the flashy layouts and picture saturated headlines. The sensation and sultry. The new standard of news speak set by the lightly yellowed, roaring twenties epistles whose work has now been translated to sepia toned masterpieces of pre-war Hollywood sex, sin and death that try for Oscar season each year.
He printed the first version of online journalism. The Reporters and Stringers that gave in and formed public demand for interconnectedness and entertainment. And For this achievement, this culmination and keeping of the memory of Journalism's modern roots. I salute him.
Friday, March 28, 2008
The Lattice Work of Cconscious
Yesterday M. Shannahan came for a talk. Yesterday I was awake until 3 am, studying for a test and scrambling to find lost documents I ultimately hadn't lost at all. That same day the Daily Campus staff, slogged out of the Dog Lane offices at 4 am. Mrs. Shannahan however did that long before any of us had to get up at ungodly hours.
I come in late from studying and my roommate whispers how lazy I am that I am still sleeping in, when she's slept a fullnight.
I must confess it was nice to hear the voice of a fellow journalist. One of the biggest problems of the internet is where to go and what to see. It's much like life infact, we can't see it all. But we can and we have to see most of it, because we are peoples eyes and ears.
As journalist in the internet age you don't often get to hear your own voice. If you choose to be a journalist. If you are a paid blogger for a newsmedia outlet of of the era of the independent, you face and name is plastered everywhere. Somewhere now someone is writing the news, and somewhere someone isn't.
I admired her bravery for taking a new path in her career. Something I would do with heady enthusiasm. I also like that she was honest that intially it was lonely. What struck me most, besides her offer for an internship, to which I can't afford the gas.
What she said next stuck to me like glue, when I wanted to be teflon. The missing journalists. What I went through in my first professional journalism experince only echoes that. The newspaper the Chicago Tribune owned us, then they foreclosed upon us and sold the interest of our company to another. My summer was one spent surrounded by fear. Three early retirment and switching career send off parties were given. I wondered if this meant I could be easily hired. I felt bad for them, and for the termination of my pay. Eventually Gannett Company Inc, that media or media titans acquired us. Or would have
But Gannett didnt get us. That summer the people of the newsroom formed a union to fight back. They put it this way, "The agreement was terminated following an arbitrator’s ruling last month that Tribune could not sell the company unless the buyer assumed the existing UAW contract as a condition of the sale, which Gannett declined to do. The contract covered certain editorial employees at The Advocate."
Everyone thought they were safe. Now they are a Hearst Publication, with half the staff of the news and entertainment department. More people doing less things, when there is more than ever news to uncover. But this isnt a lament about less journalists in the workforce, with no one competient replacing them. This is about the news that doesn't get covered, all those stories that never get looked into, until finally it's months or years later, a some woman at a local newsdesk opens with we bring this tragic and breaking news to you tonight. Then we blame whoever could have prevented it.
Journalists names are not to be included in this. No one blames people that they don't think would have been there. Dont tell me it had to be this way....she didn't. I did. It has to be this way...for now.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Really Simple Syndication
An RSS feeds is new type of communication, as the world
I am reminded of what Kokogiak, an old bookmark of mine said, I originally booked marked him because I loved his humorous following of the 2005 king kong marketing craze.
"There are so, so many ways to get quality media these days (I hate the term "media" in this case, but what better all-encompassing term is there for books, stories, music, news, movies, podcasts, TV shows, blogs, art, audiobooks, and more). Using an RSS reader, TiVo, iTunes, iPod, Netflix and more, I've achieved a constant stream of high-quality information and entertainment - way more than I actually have time to process, let alone enjoy or savor. And, my daily media consumption has grown way out of proportion with my level of output. "
Friday, March 7, 2008
The corruption in journalism: AND 5 REVIEWS of online newsources
There's nothing fun about playing God when you are the people down below. They call this citizen journalism, but if we take a look at it, what is so great about citizens? Often all we get is opinions. Along with family pictures, videos, and how to manuals.
There is supposed to be an army of people that will save and change journalism. Yet it's hardly something that needs to be saved. It is true that journalism is changing into a medium of visually active praticipation. It needs to be protected from citizens and other outside interests that want to get inside us.
Blogs are opinion. They are a rumor monger. There is no shame and no one to hold them accountable. They do not have a seperate section on the internet as columnists and op-ed writers have in a gazette. They have no protection from others that There is no editor or legal department that will scream at them for having to print a retraction on page one. There is no teacher they might have had to tell them that lying does get in the way of a good story. That it's called Libel. There is no one to fire them when they gleefully delete or attack dissenting opinions. In a newspaper we publish them as letters to the editor without response. We don't think are readers are stupid enough to need
Everything is interfaced. Newspapers and good journalism are being reduced to links. They are parasitic. They are also humbling, and should force journalists to reconsider their practices. Blogs never say if they are paid to blog or not about their work.
People still trust blogs and the internet. No great disillusionment has happened
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet," is a warning reserved for conspiracy theorists shoddy home pages. Not for news blogs like gawker report, or tech report blogs like life hacker. It's never acknowledged that they are being fed information, or that they are recipients of company kickbacks, easily influenced by lobbyists, campaigns and corporate sponsors. Everything is as they want it to be, not as it is.
There is supposed to be an army of people that will save and change journalism. Yet it's hardly something that needs to be saved. It is true that journalism is changing into a medium of visually active praticipation. It needs to be protected from citizens and other outside interests that want to get inside us.
Blogs are opinion. They are a rumor monger. There is no shame and no one to hold them accountable. They do not have a seperate section on the internet as columnists and op-ed writers have in a gazette. They have no protection from others that There is no editor or legal department that will scream at them for having to print a retraction on page one. There is no teacher they might have had to tell them that lying does get in the way of a good story. That it's called Libel. There is no one to fire them when they gleefully delete or attack dissenting opinions. In a newspaper we publish them as letters to the editor without response. We don't think are readers are stupid enough to need
Everything is interfaced. Newspapers and good journalism are being reduced to links. They are parasitic. They are also humbling, and should force journalists to reconsider their practices. Blogs never say if they are paid to blog or not about their work.
People still trust blogs and the internet. No great disillusionment has happened
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet," is a warning reserved for conspiracy theorists shoddy home pages. Not for news blogs like gawker report, or tech report blogs like life hacker. It's never acknowledged that they are being fed information, or that they are recipients of company kickbacks, easily influenced by lobbyists, campaigns and corporate sponsors. Everything is as they want it to be, not as it is.
But then again this is all opinion backed up with truth. I'm no different than those I am deriding right now. The sole dividing lines are my knowlegde of journalism and my foresight. Give it time and blogs to shall fall.
Five reviews:Huffington Post:
This is a blog that bills itself as the internet newspaper. In the political section the news consists of attacks on other news agencies that provide Huffington with much of its content. There was no actual origional news content. All was either pilfered or opinion or twitter links to other websites. Spent more time deriding other news sources than reporting actual news.
Universal Hub:
This is a blog that reports Boston news outside the Boston newspapers. It is comprised of information directly from bloggers in Boston,. It is fairly unbiased, if a little sarcastic at times. I was impressed by the edition of a local sports sections called Red Sox and White Pinstripes. The news was good, if a little too arts and entertainment section at times, but over all it meets the criteria of a good localized web news source.
Grade B+ : Covers Boston On A Homegrown Beantown Beat.
Salon:
This online arts and culture magazine that has grown into an everything publication. However breaking news is not something they do. The broadsheet is not a news one but a blog described in the word edgy designed to look like a chick lit beach book cover. Named for the gathering places of renaissance men and women, it lives up to that. It's a place at the emergence of something new. It was also the beginning of the online periodical. It doesn't have any mutually exclusive contract with anyone wire service. In fact, it could be called its decline. They give great content from vlogged movie reviews to an interactive campaign 2008
Grade: A- : Nearly Perfect, Perhaps the Future of Multi-media publications.
Slate Online:
One of the first and still the best. This is the last and highest grade I will give. This is the news with humor and intelligent commentary. They do break news, but not as much as other major outlets. It has origional articles on topics that a newspaper with recent staff shortages might not have time to cover. They also have a good selection of newspaper standards including an animated Dear Prudence advice column. All they are missing is the classifieds. They also have something that no one else has. They have nationally syndicated radio shows as part of their collection. Outside of the newspaper or other website, these would be hard to indivually find. They are up to the minuet and all on relevant days news. The best I can say is bravo. I hope to work for them some day.
Grade: A+ : The Best An Internet Publication Can Be!
The Root:
This is a specialized newspaper. Specialized in that it has a target audience, like the Village Voice is only for the trendy New York neighborhood hipsters or how El Dario is only for Spanish people. It's for the black majority of the nation, offering a more focused but really not much different view. I was going to review nerve.com, but it was just sex, sex, sex, post-modern ironic news, photo blogs, and sex. The root had something that is hard to find on these sites, bipartisan coverage. In their politics section it was an open forum, where the news was reported and their writers gave the scoop on two different views, instead of one.
Grade B: All The News Thats Fit To Reprint
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Fourth Estate Unfolds: Journalistic Fears
I know this wasn't assigned but I want to give a voice for this, I care about this issue.
With each passing month the Netscape looks more and more like that of the short film EPIC 2015, while the mergers and brand names are outdated, the message remains the same.
http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/
Our job is to make sure this does not happen. News must be accessible to everyone, and it must remain in professional hands. So how does this effect our election one might ask?
There's much talk but it's not about the issues. Once in the texan debate was it covered, but then CNN switched to hypothesizing about what the a Hillary-Obama handshake meant.
Headlines all over call Hillary the nearly defeated. Tomorrow they may call her the comeback kid once again. Elections are a popularity contest now, and it's entirely out of our hands.
Supposedly viewers control what they want to hear, and what they are hearing is a lot of jabber. No one is making definitive claims. Yet most of them aren't watching TV. They are in the blogsphere and in video commentary boards. They are chattering about issues yes. Intelligently? Yes. But there aren't raging debates going on with anyone who is not seeking them out.
What happened to debating? This is the polarization many speak of. It is not that our country is divided into two nations named Hippie-Libby Town and Jesus Land. We just aren't talking about our beliefs as we once did. Debates lack fighting. They are too civil. Or they are too violent. Resorting to personal attacks instead of picking apart the issues.
Socially we have "progressed" and this election seems to be about that on the democratic side. No one that was a white male, even if they were saying the right things, such as Biden and Richardson, was going to be kept within the running.
They are the same words being said, the faces have just changed. The coverage about the election is not as different from the 2000 or 2004 election. It's the same old story.
There's just more at stake.
With each passing month the Netscape looks more and more like that of the short film EPIC 2015, while the mergers and brand names are outdated, the message remains the same.
Our job is to make sure this does not happen. News must be accessible to everyone, and it must remain in professional hands. So how does this effect our election one might ask?
There's much talk but it's not about the issues. Once in the texan debate was it covered, but then CNN switched to hypothesizing about what the a Hillary-Obama handshake meant.
Headlines all over call Hillary the nearly defeated. Tomorrow they may call her the comeback kid once again. Elections are a popularity contest now, and it's entirely out of our hands.
Supposedly viewers control what they want to hear, and what they are hearing is a lot of jabber. No one is making definitive claims. Yet most of them aren't watching TV. They are in the blogsphere and in video commentary boards. They are chattering about issues yes. Intelligently? Yes. But there aren't raging debates going on with anyone who is not seeking them out.
What happened to debating? This is the polarization many speak of. It is not that our country is divided into two nations named Hippie-Libby Town and Jesus Land. We just aren't talking about our beliefs as we once did. Debates lack fighting. They are too civil. Or they are too violent. Resorting to personal attacks instead of picking apart the issues.
Socially we have "progressed" and this election seems to be about that on the democratic side. No one that was a white male, even if they were saying the right things, such as Biden and Richardson, was going to be kept within the running.
They are the same words being said, the faces have just changed. The coverage about the election is not as different from the 2000 or 2004 election. It's the same old story.
There's just more at stake.
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Difference About Writing for the Web
- What's unique about writing for the Web?
- How netizens read
- How to satisfy reader habits on the Web
People interact with you, posting everything from insightful to crude comments on your stories. If they like your story they can take it and move chunks of the information on to their own website or provide a link to your story. Much more simple than the newspaper clippings of the past.
You have to think like a scanner or viewer. Not like a newspaper writer. You have to be able to do everything and you have to be able to do it well otherwise there is no point in going on with the work. You need to format it in an F shape so that your readers can clearly see what works and what does not.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Election Coverage is good but scattered
Find out how Campaign 2008 is being covered by mainstream online media, and other off-the-beaten path online publications. Blog (i) common trends in the coverage and (ii) what in the coverage is/are uniquely OJ stuff:
Each of the websites for News like Time Magazine and CNN.com, that take viewers directly to links about the three candidates and how the primaries are running.
Editorializing. Pollsters have been screwing up on the numbers, so the commentary people have stepped in to tell us how we are going to vote. There are even more vlogging and talking heads than there were during the 2004 election, and its not just Stephen Colbert only though it makes you wish it was.
One trend is, Ditch the Dinosaur named John McCain. I am a democrat but I think that more coverage besides Fox news should also go to John McCain. It's because the primary is running so fiercely and it probably wont end any time soon. Maybe by the start of summer if one of them gets enough electoral votes.
Never Ending primary is another trend. This should be known because what is uniquely journalist about it is how they travel around from state to state, in search of the never ending primary. Election coverage has never been like this. It has given local news a nationalistic pride and parts of the country are given a platform to speak on they have not been offered in years. Suddenly tiny states in the caucus and primary are important. This will be the election of the never ending primary and right now it is anyones guess who will come out on top.
One of the trends is black people vrs. white women. An enigmatic mixed race man and a former first lady and white woman are much more interesting to see duke out and force their country to think about change, an angle the media got out early. I like this trend the least, and I can only see it continuing as their pasts come to light or if they or one of their PR people slip up in a comment. It doesnt aid the election or issues but it does keep people interested.
Of all these I think the most journalistic and newsy is actually Yahoo. It gives clear definitions on all the candidates and how their campaigns have changed or made the news that day. It has a political dashboard, and refuses to take sides.
It is the most unbiased easily accessible spreadsheet on the net, and my source for online election coverage.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Welcome to the first post of the rest of your life....that sounded wittier in my head.
LitBlog's primary purpose is to give you literature from the broad definition of it. This means what I give you or provide links to isn't supposed to be "academic" or boring. I won't be the pennicle of high culture but I can promise you I won't be like any other blog with poor reviews of movies you have seen or single posts of awful photoshopped images in the vein of lolcats in which martin luther king jr. says I Has U a dream but i eated it.
and now....
The Work of H. H. Munroe
There are only a handful of nineteenth century authors consistently seen by the average reader which is a shame, because it every so often happens that a man of wit slip through the cracks. It's hard not to love a man whose last words were "Put out that goddamn cigarette!" H.H. Munroe or Saki as he went by is easy to read. This is unheard of in most short stories. Anyone who has taken an english class can attest that to that. Here are two shorts that give you an idea what you are getting into. The first is an awesome werewolf story about stupid people and the art of illusion.
http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/1887/
I'll be posting more from him later.
Unauthorized Parody of the Day
Thanks to the internet unauthorized foreign copies of works have resurfaced. This is brilliance from the eastern block. If you have ever been a kid, then you know winnie the pooh. But do you know Vinni Puh? You will. He's a brown panda bear with more humor than the multimillion dollar disney version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam9JBk5Oig
LitBlog's primary purpose is to give you literature from the broad definition of it. This means what I give you or provide links to isn't supposed to be "academic" or boring. I won't be the pennicle of high culture but I can promise you I won't be like any other blog with poor reviews of movies you have seen or single posts of awful photoshopped images in the vein of lolcats in which martin luther king jr. says I Has U a dream but i eated it.
and now....
The Work of H. H. Munroe
There are only a handful of nineteenth century authors consistently seen by the average reader which is a shame, because it every so often happens that a man of wit slip through the cracks. It's hard not to love a man whose last words were "Put out that goddamn cigarette!" H.H. Munroe or Saki as he went by is easy to read. This is unheard of in most short stories. Anyone who has taken an english class can attest that to that. Here are two shorts that give you an idea what you are getting into. The first is an awesome werewolf story about stupid people and the art of illusion.
http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/1887/
I'll be posting more from him later.
Unauthorized Parody of the Day
Thanks to the internet unauthorized foreign copies of works have resurfaced. This is brilliance from the eastern block. If you have ever been a kid, then you know winnie the pooh. But do you know Vinni Puh? You will. He's a brown panda bear with more humor than the multimillion dollar disney version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam9JBk5Oig
First Post
The journalism is the purveyor and the delivery system of knowledge that politicians quote their facts from. It is the source of sports commentary that blogs mercilessly steal from. It is the way in which celebrities are
We know what other people don't so they don't have to know it, or in the reverse, reaffirm what little people know and corroborate what the experts say. Journalists must keep their work stylish, fun, informative, and simple. This applies to the stuff I learned on the links too.
I like Mindy McAdams layouts page. I am going to go with the first one. It may not be the fancyist but its simple.
We know what other people don't so they don't have to know it, or in the reverse, reaffirm what little people know and corroborate what the experts say. Journalists must keep their work stylish, fun, informative, and simple. This applies to the stuff I learned on the links too.
I like Mindy McAdams layouts page. I am going to go with the first one. It may not be the fancyist but its simple.
Think about the stuff on your page as solid boxes. The main text is one big box. A vertical stack of buttons is a small box. A simple page might look like this:
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