• September 25.2008

A look at new redesigns

Posted by Robb Montgomery on January 23, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Rocky Mountain News redesign debated on Visual Editors

How big is your redesign? Tabloid, 48-inch Broadsheet or Berliner?

The Visual Editors are examining and debating the new designs from the tabloid-size Rocky Mountain News, the narrower Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the award-winning Berliner revamp of Belgium's De Morgen. LIVE CHAT: Thursday with De Morgen's designer - Martin Huisman.
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quirkyalone said:

I disagree with the statement: 'because of search engines, "content publishers, regardless of the depth of coverage or analysis, lose control of how content is delivered to and consumed by the reader"'

I think that owing to the very nature of the Internet, content publishers never have had control of how content is delivered and consumed. I, as a reader, can obtain and read the content hovewer I choose to - I can read it as intended by the Magazine, I can print it and read it later, I can also read it in the text-only browser, I can turn off Ads, aggregate content from several sources, anything. You are serving the content, and I can do anything (legal) with it.

I think the crux of the problem is, that the Internet, as designed, was not originaly meant for commercial publishing, but rather for *free* exchange of information. Later, commercial companies seized the opportunity to make money here and jumped in. Of course, I am not against that, but in my opinion, those companies need to play according the "internet" rules at the first place, one of which is that publisher do not have control of how the material is presented, by definition. Blaming search engines for that is a bit ridiculous, IMHO.

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