This week in links

By Tyson Evans — April 4, 2008

These are worth a read:

Links that stink on news sites — Jack Shafer grumbles about the “link riots” polluting newspaper Web sites.
Multimedia: An Adolescent, but No Longer an Orphan — Judges comments from this year’s NPPA awards for online work.
Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes.
Two great articles at A List Apart: Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry outlines the lost art of helping users find the content they seek. Sign Up Forms Must Die champions “gradual engagement” instead of frustrating forms.
CopyMove is an application to screen news photos for suspicious alterations (i.e. cloning).
Think You Know Your Web Traffic? examines the imperfect metrics we use to gauge success online.

Miscellany

Newspaper Death Watch: Advertising Age has launched the first in a series of articles on the future (or non-future) of newspapers from the perspective of advertisers, along with a poll asking readers to guess the lifespan of newsprint.; Comment
South African paper rethinks page numbers: “To commemorate World AIDS day on December 1st the South African newspaper Cape Argus used their page numbers on the top of every page of the newspaper to educate the public on statistics relating to the AIDS pandemic in South Africa. All the statistics were collected from UNICEF and the South African Department of Health.” (via osocio.org and bestadsontv); Comment

Front pages

These papers received the most awards in the 29th annual Best of Newspaper Design competition, view their front pages today via the Newseum.

Yes, students, we will have a version of The Intern at SNDVegas! After a couple of wonderfully elaborate contests in Orlando and Boston, we’re taking a low-key approach in Vegas. Check out the full details at the SNDVegas site.

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3D Quick Course: A chat with a guru or two

SND’s 3D graphics QuickCourse was in San Francisco this weekend for a two-day workshop focused on Newtek’s LightWave. SND Update caught up with the course’s two speakers, South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Len DeGroot and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Steve Wilson, along Ocean Beach outside San Francisco’s Beach Chalet.

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Industry News

Nuri Ducassi joins Sun-Sentinel

Nuri Ducassi is leaving her post as Design Director at the Montreal Gazette to become Features Design Director at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Memo from Design Director Paul Wallen follows:

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A look at El Mundo’s new office

EL MUNDO newspaper and elmundo.es are now working together in the new integrated building on Avda. de San Luis, Madrid, Spain. Their first big test was the Spanish National Election Coverage — and the building did not collapse.

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Events

3-D InfoGraphics Quick Course: Apr 12, San Francisco State University
Small Papers Summit: May 31, Republican-American, Waterbury, CT

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