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Will Sullivan's Journerdism is a news and commentary website for journalists and nerds to kick it and discuss the craft journalism, multimedia storytelling, web 2.0 development, web and print design, social content and all things nerdy online.

Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki [del.icio.us]Yesterday

"We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months - adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) as well as user comments. Tonight, Google apparently said “what the hell” and turned it on for everyone. The changes are called SearchWiki, and are a dramatic departure from Google’s streamlined, algorithm-rules approach to search. It takes features from Digg to allow users to vote site results up or down, as well as features from Wikia Search to allow users to add comments, move search results, add search results, etc. The result are customized results that appear every time you do that search in the future (assuming you are logged in)."

CJR piece on Overload!' offers significant signposts for news design [del.icio.us]November 20

"Columnbia Journalism Review lays out the challenges facing mainstream media in a fascinating piece headlined “Overload!” Writer Bree Nordenson’s exhaustive piece (read it all, if you have the time) is instructive: The battle for attention in the age of “too much information” oftens falls to news design professionals to help solve."

Mediabistro Thinks Pretty People Can Still Get Media Jobs [del.icio.us]November 20

"So what's MediaBistro gonna do to make money turning the downturn, with MediaJobs disappearing left and right? How about desperate stunts: charging for cheesecake videos that cross the line: This video, "How Do I Got from Model to Model Journalist?" costs $15 FOR A SIXTEEN-MINUTES. Laurel, that's the phone-sex model of making money, not the "freelancer-helping" one."

Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web [del.icio.us]November 20

"Have you seen “breaking news” on MSNBC or CNN lately? Almost anything can pass for breaking news now. “So and so speaks to the press about this or that” is now breaking news. Breaking news used to mean something seriously big and important or spectacular just happened. But the major news sites have watered it way down. When I hit MSNBC or CNN, and they have a “breaking news” bar (red/yellow usually), it’s easy to ignore because they’ve cried wolf one too many times. But when you see a big honking red ALL CAPS headline with the flashing siren on Drudge, you know it’s newsworthy." (Via Ryan Sholin)

The Next Newsroom Proposal is complete [del.icio.us]November 20

So rather than start by trying to create a single "ideal," we decided to identify the big themes. This led to the establishment of five principles we think any newsroom of the future should embrace: * Community: * Multi-platform: * Innovation: . * Collaboration: * Transparency:"