Articles from April, 2009
Google have kept pushing ahead in their mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” this time with visualisations of datasets in their search results pages.
With Swine flu so prevalent in the world news at the moment, its only natural that there be some maps featured on news sites telling how the virus has spread across the globe.
Listen to your users
Among a slew of newspaper redesigns that are utilising more magazine-driven layouts popping with colour and graphics, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has launched a new design that uses more solid columns of text and smaller photos than most.
Meanwhile…
At the end of a down-beat article on the accelerating decline in circulation of the top 25 US newspapers (7% year on year) the New York Times adds a short final paragraph:
Meanwhile, the audience for newspaper Web sites continues to grow. In the first quarter of 2009, newspaper Web sites attracted more than 73 million unique visitors each month, on average, according to an analysis by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America. That is a 10.5 percent increase from the first quarter of 2008.