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Linked on Romenesko, Jim Callaghan of the New York Observer offers tips for the new journalism program at the City University of New York. The students, Callaghan writes,"must start their day by annoying the Mayor, the Governor, the City Council Speaker, every elected official and every executive assistant to the deputy mayor — just on general principle."
Elsewhere, Ken Kobre, a photojournalism prof at San Francisco State, talks good sense about photo usage and photos size online. Most importantly, he argues for simpler access: "When pictures are ghettoised, they are no longer part of the experience of seeing pictures and reading the story simultaneously and integrating the two. They have now become disassociated. You don't want to commit the time to opening a slide show. With a magazine, you read the story and look at the pictures and get an integrated and real experience"
Also on the business of getting to information, Poynter's E-Media Tidbits blog points to a page that tests the abilities of your pop-up blocker. Here's how the Google Toolbar 2.0.111 fares:
Normal popup blocking = Passed
Full-screen popup blocking = Passed
Channel-opener popup blocking = Passed
Modeless dialog blocking = Failed
Browser window popup blocking = Passed
User-launched HREF-method popup allowing = Passed
User-launched JavaScript-method popup allowing = Passed
User-launched OnClick-method popup allowing = Passed
User-launched Delayed-method popup allowing = Failed
You scored 85, a rating of Very Good.
