Notes from the Edge

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Observations on digital media by the faculty and staff of the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.

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The News Leadership 3.0 weblog by the Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg.

Working With Free Web Designs

By Scot Hacker, May 22, 2008

Creating professional-looking designs for multimedia sites can be tedious and time-consuming. But there are thousands of free web templates out there, yours for the download. Our new Free Web Designs  tutorial guides users through web resources for working with free HTML+CSS templates, and includes a guided walk-through of our own downloadable multimedia design template.

Design Notes from the NY Times

By Scot Hacker, April 22, 2008

The NY Times has posted an interesting interview with Design Director Khoi Vinh, who discusses some of the more  obscure/hidden aspects of the Gray Lady's online presence.  One of the things that's always struck me about nytimes.com is its choice of a large-ish, serif'd font - something about that choice has always seemed a bit anachronistic ...

What has art got to do with it?

By Jerry Monti, March 17, 2008

Can an art exhibition in New York help news organizations adapt to a 21st Century audience?