"News organizations like Vox, Quartz and Circa News are developing story formats that take into account how people are increasingly reading the news — often on mobile devices and at irregular times of the day. News is no longer taken in as a single article, but rather as a stream or wave of information."
"here’s a list of journalism ventures worth watching closely, each for a different set of reasons"
"By shifting employees from desk to desk every few months, scattering those who do the same types of jobs and rethinking which departments to place side by side, companies say they can increase productivity and collaboration."
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"The most effective way of understanding what works and what doesn't in an interface is to watch people use it. This is the essence of usability testing. When the right participants attempt realistic activities, you gain qualitative insights into what is causing users to have trouble. This helps you determine how to improve the design.
Additionally, you can measure the percentage of tasks that users complete correctly as a way to communicate a site's overall usabilit"
"The 204th episode of #wjchat, hosted by @wjchat and @webjournalist, focused on the skills digital journalists need to know. Chat participants rated each skill on a scale of 1 (not at all important) to 5 (extremely important). This is an attempt to provide a summary of the participants’ responses. @ChrisLKeller compiled the chat into a CSV file. The following table and graphs are based on a review of that data."
"Enter any URL below and we'll count up how many times it was ever shared across the 4 major social sharing sites: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn."
"Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming."
"Clearly, the life of a viral post on Reddit is short--so if you make it to the front page, enjoy your precious few hours in the spotlight."