From the days of brows­ing a bare-bones World Wide Web, where an occa­sional graphic was a treat, to our mod­ern fully-interactive, Flash and JavaScript media dri­ven web sites of today, a lot has changed.

To say the least, brows­ing the web has become quite a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence. We’ve reached a day where we don’t think twice to pull out our cell­phones to look up a quick piece of infor­ma­tion. “Oh, I’ll just Google that,” or “let me check Wikipedia.” We can do this in the blink of an eye and a fin­ger tap of a screen.

But where does that put us, the col­lege news­pa­pers of today. Many of our papers are just now get­ting online. Oth­ers are just now join­ing the social media craze. But how many of us have mobile ver­sions of our web site? (more…)

With tech­nol­ogy con­stantly evolv­ing, every indus­try has to adapt to keep up; the news­pa­per indus­try is no excep­tion. One of the biggest steps in the world of news­pa­pers has been mov­ing to the web as another for­mat to deliver the news. It pro­vides real-time access for real-time con­tent, and allows for a much larger audi­ence. How­ever, there is a new medium on the block to tar­get: Apple, Inc.‘s iPad.

There’s a lot of buzz in the tech and news indus­tries on how this new device might change, or even bet­ter, revi­tal­ize the indus­try. With the New York Times demo­ing its own iPad app, where does this leave col­lege news­pa­pers? (more…)

If your col­lege news­pa­per isn’t on the web yet, now’s the time to be. In a time where there are spec­u­la­tions of a revi­tal­iza­tion of the news­pa­per indus­try in a dig­i­tal form, why not get started early? Here are three quick ways to get started on the web, with­out hav­ing to invest a sin­gle dol­lar: (more…)