Sunday Telegraph to be "like a party" under Sands

And the picture bylines won't scowl.
(From The Independent)

Speculation about berliner move in Print Week

(From Print Week)

Telegraph to use NewspaperDirect's SmartEdition

... which is, says E&P, "fully automated". See also the press release from NewspaperDirect.
(From Editor & Publisher)

Kottke: WebOS

Nicely summarises the efforts in recent years to converge/blur the desktop and web, and the applications running in either/both.
(From kottke.org)

Two mags on MEI-vended InDesign/InCopy setups

No mention of any others.
(From Editor & Publisher)

NYT editor writes letter to the editor

... and, to extend the circularity, its subject is an article in the paper about books about the media. So let's all talk about it.
(From Editor & Publisher)

Should media set the community's agenda?

NB link on Corante front page links to earlier version of Vin Crosbie's post. More on the debate about the mass-media editor's role in an increasingly diverse information environment. Is there analogy between the relationship between a consumer and an editor, and between a consumer and a mechanic? Do you trust your mechanic to choose the best parts for your car? Does anyone trust mechanics? If everybody had full access to information to choose which sparkplugs to buy, would the choices actually homogenise rather than diversify?
(From Corante)

Zotob worms affect New York Times, Wash Post, AP, CNN, ABC, FT, Bloomberg...

(From Editor & Publisher)

Seattle P-I launches "Virtual Editorial Board"

(From Online Journalism Review)

Grey areas for grey matter

A Cornell survey suggests that the brain deals with language (at least) in a fluid way, with the output of processes being distributed as they take place rather than after each is completed. A person is shown images on a screen of object including two with similar-sounding names, such as "candle" and "candy". They are told to click on "candle". Rather than waiting until the brain has decided which of the two sounds was heard, or indeed starting to move the mouse one way and then correcting themselves, people appeared to make arcing movements. The study suggests that initially the meaning of the word is in a cognitively ambiguous state -- good enough to start moving the mouse towards the candle/candy -- until the ambiguity is resolved, and thence the mouse trajectory.
Could have interesting implications for information and HCI design, let alone our understanding of cognition.
(From Technology Review)

Bill Hagerty on Guardian berliner move

From The Independent)

Sindy to go tabloid in September

"It is understood that the newspaper is planning to relaunch as a 128-page tabloid by the end of September
... Media buyers contacted by the Guardian yesterday were unaware of the Independent on Sunday's plans." One hundred and twenty-eight pages sounds like a fat (and relentlessly hard to navigate) product. The Times allegedly dumped the idea of a tabloid Sunday on the grounds that there would be just too many pages.
(From Guardian)

Seybold: people aren't developing with XMP

By Ron Roszkiewicz. "No one, to my knowledge, has adopted it as the infrastructure of their system". I don't know about infrastructure, but it's pretty core to our system. Roszkiewicz says that developers don't know how to write into XMP. We do. WW do. FIP do. Joe does.
(From The Seybold Bulletin)

Glaser interviews Nisenholtz and Keller on NYT newsroom merge

(From Online Journalism Review)

FT on the 10th anniversary of the Netscape IPO

(From FT.com)

"Citizen journalism is dead"

Says Vincent Maher (who is not a "US academic"). Discussed by Steve Outing on Tidbits.
(From E-Media Tidbits)

"Newsrooms are at last getting serious about plugging into the internet"

Writes Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian.
(From MediaGuardian.co.uk)

Preston on berliner, "the postmodern newspaper", etc

"In a sense, the newsprint version - this Berliner rethinking of role and purpose - is moving on to the next stage of news development. It could become what movie releases in cinemas are to DVD sales: a necessary outward and visible symbol of role and intent, but not the main digital event. Rusbridger's visionary zeal has already made the Guardian a global force on the net. Here he goes again. Autumn is about much more than paper and ink and typefaces. It is about the shape of things to come - even the first post-modern newspaper."
(From The Observer)

Guardian Weekly using geotargeted ads

(From New Media Age)

NYT to merge print and digital newsrooms

See WSJ and E&P.
(From Digital Deliverance)