Jan. 5,7 (Week 1)
Introduction: CyberJOURNALISM?
Web issues and background
Discussion of class site
Criticizing web sites

Readings (Primarily of historical interest):

Note: Read the first two. Skim the rest if you'd like

• What New Media Isn't: A Personal Journey David Shedden on Poynter Online
  
• Remarks by Tom Curley, AP's CEO Nov. 1, 2007
• A brief history of the internet
  
• A less-brief internet history By Vinton Cerf and other founders
• The World Wide Web: A very short personal history By Tim Berners-Lee
• The History of Online Journalism, by David Carlson. On reserve in reading room. This is a chapter from Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism, edited by Kevin Kawamoto.
• Why the Web Sucks A Seattle Weekly interview with Jakob Nielsen, usability guru
• Some background about new media By Thom Lieb. This was written in 1997.
• The Birth of Way New Journalism By Jonathan Quittner in HotWired (written almost a decade ago; now available at archive.org ).
• The Sunline site A small newspaper that has been inviting reader photo contributions for years
• The Bakersfield Californian A newspaper that, among other innovations, has creating free papers based on reader submissions.

• Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism, by Kevin Kawamoto. On reserve in the reading room. Chapter from text of the same name, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
• The Meanings and Implications of Convergence, by Rich Gordon. On reserve in reading room. From the Kawamoto book.
• HTML resources
• Writing News OnlineBy Jonathan Dube
• Journalism 2.0A good, free resource about doing journalism online. Large PDF file
• Mindy McAdams' syllabus Great information and links
• An index of Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox columns on Web usability
• Some columns from the list
• Usability By Nielsen
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design By Jakob Nielsen
  • Top 10 Mistakes Revisited 3 Years Later
  • Top 10 New Mistakes
  • Top 10 New Mistakes of 2002
  • Top ten Mistakes of 2005
  • Top 10 Application Design Mistakes By Jakob Nielsen
  • Eyetracking Research
  • The Need for Web Design StandardsBy Jakob Nielsen
  • Guidelines for Visualizing Links By Nielsen
• Some site design issues Also from Nielsen's Alertbox site
• How users read on the web Also by Nielsen
• False OraclesWhat consumers don't know about search engines
• Web pages that suck Learn good design by studying bad design
  
  

• Same as for Week 2--use for site presentations; Also:
• Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace
• How users read on the web
• Readying Publications for the Web By Mindy McAdams. A good discussion of linking, editing and readability.
• The New York Times looks back on its five years on the Web
• Web style of writing From The Yale Web Style Guide.
• Rethinking internet news as a business proposition

• Guyana A trip to Guyana from three perspectives. An interesting early experiment in writing for the web.
• Driving a Newspaper on the Information Highway Thoughts on writing for web newspapers. By McAdams.
• Hypertext breakdown A discussion of the elements of cybermedia. By McAdams.
• Elements of Digital Storytelling By Nora Paul and Christina Fiebich of the the Institute for New Media Studies at U. Minn.
• Creating compelling hypertexts By Thom Lieb of Towson University
  
• "Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Compelling News Narratives" By Robert Huesca
• "Where Should You Put Links? A Comparison of Four Locations"By Michael Bernard et. al.
• "Thinking Outside the Linear Box" By Rusty Foster in Online Journalism Review (no longer available)
• Hypertext on hypertext Link no longer works.
• "Brokaw on the Holodesk: The Future of the News Story in Cyberspace," Jack Lule. (on reserve in Reading Room by Monday)
• Dancing Rocks multimedia storyBy Jane Stevens

• Appropriate Design By Thom Lieb
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
  • See also Week 2 Readings from Nielsen
• Information design By Matthew Cutler ( Note: No longer available)
• A clickable safe-color map by Victor Engel.
  More Information on color
• Image use on the web Some basics by Web Design Group. Old, but still good basic info
• Image File Formats: Which to Use
• JPEG infoFrom Wikipedia--includes examples at bottom
• GIF file format From Wikipedia
• "Are Users Stupid?" By Jakob Nielsen
• More links on Bibliography page
  
• Dancing Rocks of Death ValleyBy Jane Stevens of the Berkeley Grad School
• How the Dancing Rocks story was assembled

• Some site design issues By Jakob Nielsen
  
• Usability issues revisited in '97 Scrolling and imagemaps aren't so bad
• Differences between print and web design By, You guessed it.
• Portions of the Yale web style guide:
  • Interface design topics
  • Site design topics
• Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time) By Jakob Nielsen
• Modern (information) architecture By Matthew Cutler
• Back to the Drawing Board How quickly we redesign. By Mindy McAdams. The examples are somewhat dated. They've been redesigned since she wrote.
• Web site mistakes From Jesse Berst of Ziff-Davis
• Web pages that suck Learn good design by studying bad design