Archive for category Newspapers
New York Times & Twitter
Posted by Michael Opperman in Journalism, Newspapers, Social Networking, Twitter on October 9, 2009
The New York Times online has a rather elegant integration with Twitter. The user experience is simple and intuitive, the design appealing and the options perfect. After associating my NYTimes online account with my Twitter account, a header menu appeared on the NYTimes pages allowing me to recommend and showing the last article I posted to Twitter. Quite a good experience.
How To Read a Column
Posted by Michael Opperman in Newspapers, Politics on September 28, 2009
I’m not a fast fan of William Safire. I find his columns on language in the NYT Magazine to be patrician and prickly (not that it’s impossible that I might find that interesting). But I did like this recent column on reading columns.