Today I’m going to illustrate a point made on Pat Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog. I’ve found several of these tips useful but as mentioned in his first post about brevity, shoveled content tends to fit better in columns on a page than in a frame on a Web site.
As anyone reading this blog knows I’m [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Publishing’
February 14, 2008
Online journalism wins through short ‘chunky’ text
February 13, 2008
The Commuter moves into Facebook and publishes Web content
The Commuter recently added a Facebook page. We’ll be adding more admins and some standard content to the page. Hopefully the discussion board post I made on the Northampton network helps with traffic. We’ll also advertise in our next print issue and run a small brief on the site.
Speaking of the site, our Feb. issue [...]
February 8, 2008
Playing with podcasting
I’ve enrolled myself in a radio workshop class. Basically we’re playing with GarageBand, creating programming for the Web-based radio station.
Currently we’re producing sweepers to run in between the programming loop. I’m using this as a learning tool for producing podcasts and audio stories. As the pieces are finished I’ll try to get them uploaded.
Powered [...]
February 7, 2008
Going the distance with travel stories
I’ve come into a bunch of travel pieces written for a Feature Writing class and since they fit my criteria for publication (decent writing and ripe for packaging) we’re going to probably run one per issue of both the print version of The Commuter as well as our Web publication.
Our first piece, a travel story [...]
