Power in the Pocket, Moving to the Mobile Web

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…)