This Guardian infographic is a waste of time.
Who cares about the river, motorway or railway next to this school in Finland?
Too much irrelevant information is another form of info decoration.
(Thanks to Chiqui Esteban)
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INFO DECORATION
Published by November 8th, 2007 in Finland, THE GUARDIAN and infographics. 0 CommentsHOLDING HIS CAMERA…
Published by September 30th, 2007 in Burma, Roy Greenslade, THE GUARDIAN and photojournalism. 0 CommentsRoy Greenslade is right in his blog from The Guardian:
Kenji Nagai, the photographer killed in Burma holds his camera willing to continue taking pictures… of his killer.
What a dramatic lesson for any journalist!
THE BURMA REVOLT AND THE KILLING OF A BRAVE PHOTOJOURNALIST
Published by September 28th, 2007 in APF, Burma, Japan, Kenji Nagai, THE GUARDIAN, The Committee to Protect Journalists, blogs and photojournalism. 1 CommentThis was Kenji Nagai, a 50-year-old photojournalist killed working for the Tokyo-based APF News who, The Guardian said, had years of experience covering danger zones.
Kenji was fatally wounded in Yangon on Thursday, and pictures smuggled out of the country showed him clutching a camera as he lay dying.
You can follow the Burma revolt in this [...]
MURDOCH’S FIRST MOVE AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Published by September 19th, 2007 in Alan Rusbridger, Financial Times, Rupert Murdoch, THE GUARDIAN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, The New York Times and TimesSelect. 1 Comment
The first decision will have this headline:
WSJ Stops Charging for Access to Its Web Site.
Any doubt?
No.
So, the Financial Times is next.
As Jeff Jarvis says in a terrific post:
It’s the relationship that is valuable.
It’s the relationship that is profitable, not the control of the content or the distribution.
That is the essential media moral [...]
GREAT PICTURES IN THE BRITISH PAPERS… AND FROM THE READERS
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in FRONT PAGES, Readers, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN and pictures. 0 CommentsGreat pictures on the front pages of British newspapers.
And many readers sending a lot of pictures to their Web sites.
See here, here and here.
The Guardian has the same picture of the Cathedral city but presented in a dramatic two-page spread.
A poster that will be a must for many local people!
Click on the picture and you [...]
I WORRY ABOUT… MORE NOW THAN I DO ABOUT…
Published by June 12th, 2007 in 24 Heures, Argumenti i Fakti, Asahi Shimbun, CNN, Clarin, Dagen Nyheter, Die Welt, El Mercurio, El Nuevo Dia, El Tiempo, Financial Times, Frankfurter AllgeimeineZeitung, Gazeta Wyborcza, Helsingin Sanomat, Il Corriere della Sera, LA REPUBBLICA, LE FIGARO, O Globo, Reforma, Ricard Parsons, Segodnya, Sifnay Morning Herald, South China Morning Post, THE GUARDIAN, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Time-Warner, USA Today, Zero Hora, el-mundo and el-pais. 0 Comments
Last week, Time Warner Chairman-CEO Richard D. Parsons, who told a media conference audience in London:
“I’m going to say something I shouldn’t say.
I worry about CNN more now than I do about CNN.com.”
Well…
Let me say in the same way that:
I worry about The New York Times more now than I do about nytimes.com
I [...]
SUNDAY INNOVATION
Published by June 12th, 2007 in GREECE, Michael Agar, Peter Wilby, Sunday Eleftheros Tipos, THE GUARDIAN, The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Telegraph and innovation. 0 Comments
INNOVATION Consultant Michael Agar writes me this message from London, about an interesting comment from Peter Wilby in The Guardian under the headline Should Sundays be put out to grass?
When dailies are integrating their print and web operations into a seamless 24-hour whole, it is hard to see why the Sundays should remain inviolate [...]
If you have any doubt about how newspaper design is better than ever today …
Watch this slideshow about the 50,000 issues of The Guardian in 50 pages.
TONY BLAIR: THE BIG PICTURE
Published by May 11th, 2007 in DESIGN, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, TONY BLAIR, front page and pictures. 0 Comments
While The Independent played the typography card today, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph played the big picture one.
In both cases, good pictures, good cropping and good front page design.
The Guardian plays with photos.
Blair is the first British prime minister since Harold Wilson in 1976 to leave at a time of his own choosing, rather than by losing an election or being forced out by the party.
See “The Blair Years,” an excellent multimedia presentation at Guardian Unlimited.
THE SAME PROMOTION IN DIFFERENT PAPERS
Published by May 5th, 2007 in THE DAILY TELEGRAPH and THE GUARDIAN. 0 CommentsSometimes this happens…
Today, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian offer similar CDs about “great speeches.”
10 speeches in the single CD from The Guardian.
26 peeches in the double CD from The Daily Telegraph.
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