Newsgroup: Online Journalism at UT
This is a group of students and instructors at the University of Tennessee devoted to the study and practice of online journalism.
Technology & Science Links
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- Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on April 6, 2009 at 9:24AM EDT
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Jackob Nielsen's research: "Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items." It's the first two words that are important.
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- Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on April 1, 2009 at 2:44PM EDT
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Jim said:
Some 39% of Americans have positive and improving attitudes about their mobile communication devices, which in turn draws them further into engagement with digital resources – on both wireless and wireline platforms.
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- Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on February 24, 2009 at 4:18AM EST
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NYT's David Pogue gives the thumbs up to Amazon's new version of the Kindle. "The big Kindle breakthrough was its wireless connection. Thanks to Sprint’s cellular Internet service, the Kindle is always online: indoors, outdoors, miles from the nearest Wi-Fi hot spot."
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- Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on February 17, 2009 at 4:38PM EST
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Jim said:
Some scientists and engineers paint a really scary picture of what could happen to an increasingly vulnerable Internet.
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- Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on February 17, 2009 at 5:02AM EST
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Location, location, location. The map is the metaphor emerging for how we organize information with cellphones.
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- Jim Stovall of University of Tennessee/TNJN.com linked this on February 16, 2009 at 5:01AM EST
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Associated Press: The site attracted 2.7 million U.S. visitors in December, a nearly eight-fold rise from the end of 2007, according to Nielsen Online. But Twitter's traffic increasingly is coming through mobile phones, making its usage more difficult to monitor. Nielsen estimates 666,000 U.S. users accessed Twitter on mobile devices in December.
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