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29
Apr

How much do I use my phone?

You have seen the reports – Americans check their cell phones on average 110 times per day. Assuming eight hours of
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12
Feb

Email is mobile (Or how to spend 10 hours and save 30 minutes)

Actually, the headline is 50/50 clickbait. But this is about email and mobile and a bit about time-savings. I
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15
Sep

Is the tide turning for UX in media?

Here is a word that does not come up often enough in journalism-tech conferences: Empathy. Empathy for readers, for advertisers
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11
Sep

Job opening: Senior Manager Mobile Initiatives

We are hiring a number of web and mobile positions right now – but a key to our success is this
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29
Jun

The readers we ignore and the news they want

Millennials like news. They just don’t like you – the legacy newsroom. Don’t take it personally. By all accounts
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12
Apr

That's not how innovation works

In the New York Times today by Joe Nocera – worth a read: This Apple, the post-Jobs Apple, has become risk-averse,
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24
Feb

New mobile training at API

The American Press Institute has launched a new online training section, powered by Poynter’s News University: https://pressinstitute.newsu.
09
Dec

Why personalization is hard (and why you need to aggregate.)

Since it launched, Zite has been one of my favorite apps. Keying off my Twitter stream the product does an
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08
Dec

Flipboard and Medium are not fighting for app v.s. web supremacy

Yes, apps and web have different features and user experiences. Yes, some people prefer one over the other. Yes, we
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20
Nov

Why do people read news, why do they pay for it?

Both of those headline link-bait questions and more answered (or at least addressed) in a below roundup of somewhat recent
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