The Weatherbird has a widget! Click on the gray “get widget” button to add it to your blog or social network page. (I just counted: I belong to at least a dozen social networks and have four blogs, so I have a lot of updating to do to get them all.) The Bird’s Nest, of [...]

MSNBC has a new widget. My favorite part: You can adjust if you want more national news or less weird news, etc. Some of the colors are a little weird, but it continues MSNBC’s “fuller spectrum” theme. Clicking on the headlines in the widget brings up a the lead of the story and a button [...]

European media is a step ahead. The BBC is broadcasting a TV show in Second Life. Sky News is already part of Second Life. And the Press Association used Second Life and Twitter to cover the 2007 Budget. U.S. media could (and should) be first to jump on board and create widgets, though. And then [...]

Newspapers must create networks, not “destinations”: The kind of network I’m referring to is a web of interconnections — links between content and between people. In essence, I’m arguing that on the Web, news organizations — perhaps, all media — should focus on building themselves “into the clickstream.” The goal: make your Web site a [...]

I guess I hadn’t thought much about folks who ask designers to work for free. But I must say I agree wholeheartedly that it’s a foolish notion. For example: In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY [...]