Atlantic.com: Putting the “Re-” in Reiterations

The Atlantic.com, web outpost for the improbably long-tenured U.S. magazine, has debuted another iteration. I’ve lost count of how many sub-launches of the site there have been just since I’ve been paying attention.
But that’s good. From where I sit, multiple iterations are the way to progress on the web. Too often web developers sit for [...]

Web 2.D’oh! Roundup

The Weekly Print ‘n’ Read Feature
Last week I introduced a new feature, the Web 2.Oh. . .Really? Print ‘n’ Read (sm). Each week I highlight one piece of journalism so worthy of extended attention that it’s actually worth printing out and reading later on, away from the computer.
So fire up the ol’ inkjet and [...]

Atlantic.com: They Get It, They Really Get It!

The Atlantic, the magazine that is rarely described without the adjective “venerable,” has undergone an astonishing web rebirth–or, rather, series of rebirths.
I don’t mean they’ve gone on the web. They did that a long time ago. I mean they’ve gotten the web.
The magazine (which, with its we’re-doing-it-meta-so-we’re-not-really-pandering cover story on Britney Spears is perhaps trying [...]

The Atlantic: Finding Its Sea Legs

I’m delighted to report that as of today the website for The Atlantic magazine has stuck an epee in its self-infatuated, self-destructive policy of permitting only subscribers of the print edition to read articles published in the printed magazine online.
A New York Times story reports on the change of heart. The Atlantic’s policy, while not [...]

The 2.D’oh! Weekly Round-Up, Vol. VII

It’s Friday, which can mean only that it’s time for the weekly roundup of high points, low points and no points in 2.0 Village. 
Big media doesn’t cover the issues, you say?
Check out washingtonpost.com’s cooler-than-beans  Issue Coverage Tracker, which illustrates with interactive visuals how much media coverage there’s been on each candidates’ position on issues from abortion to Iraq. [...]

TheAtlantic.com: Sailing with a Sneer

The Atlantic, that long-tenured magazine for the thinky set, has updated its Web site. It’s one of the better recent magazine site re-dos I’ve seen. It suffers some surprisingly obvious usability issues, but overall it’s a smart renovation of a smart publication.
Fundamentally, theAtlantic.com renews the online experience for the emerging bigbrain reader, adding blogs and reader comments yet managing [...]