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Posted by Jay Small

While I joined my son yesterday on a college campus visit (yes, he's that old, meaning yes, I'm that old), our gang at Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group rolled out the second site in our latest cycle of user experience upgrades: redding.com, site of the Redding Record-Searchlight in northern California.

As with Site 1, courierpress.com of Evansville, Ind., redding.com demonstrates Scripps' latest thinking about news Web sites, in form and function:

  • Flexibility to showcase news of the day.
Client: 
American Press Institute

Presentation and discussion led for the American Press Institute, Reston, Va., February 2007.

Posted by Jay Small

If video killed the radio star, I may soon have to claim responsibility for killing Internet radio.

At 2 p.m. Monday, Mel Taylor, webcasting from the Newspaper Association of America Marketing Conference and Connections in Orlando, will interview me about the conference, the world of newspaper-based interactive media and who-knows-what-else.

Posted by Jay Small

The new design of this Web site means a lot more than just a visual dust-off. Small Initiatives, the company, no longer represents just me, my blog and my occasional Internet design consulting.

This article by Jay Small was originally published in 2002 in the NewsFuture section of the American Press Institute Web site.

In what I'd call a biorhythmic convergence, several things happened recently that opened a window of clarity in my thinking about Internet design: