Archive for the 'Tips' Category

Thinking about a new product? Think about your article page’s needs.

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Online news organizations have plenty of opportunities to launch new products that build on their information, build on their community, or launch distinct information. Many of these products will be useful … not all of them will be successful. For newspaper-dot-coms not sure where to start, I recommend building an app on top of a […]

I know you know someone who still hunt and pecks at the keyboard.

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

And this link is for that person: an index of typing lesson sources. Help them help themselves and send them there today. (via Stephen Downes)

Useful Firefox extensions for online news producers

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Here’s a list of FireFox tools that can make your job easier… I’ve collected these over the past couple years…
Most-Useful Extensions
Do you want to email a long link to a page? Use this to create (and copy to your clipboard) a shorter version of that link. I use this multiple times every day. When the […]

Tip: For you online publishers who don’t know how to handle web feeds

Friday, December 15th, 2006

If you have web feeds on your site and you don’t use <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"... anywhere on your site, you’re missing out on a lot of subscribers.
Each feed you publish ought to have its own “link” tag because it makes it easier for folks to find your feeds.
This code belongs in the head of your […]

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