{"id":19,"date":"2003-08-19T22:40:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T02:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/blogging-long-short-or-summarized-and-linked\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T21:59:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T01:59:18","slug":"blogging-long-short-or-summarized-and-linked","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/blogging-long-short-or-summarized-and-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Long or Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m changing the look of this blog a little. <\/p>\n

I’ve noticed that most items in our aggregator<\/a> are pithy little hit-and-link entries, while my wordy (“more in-depth”) attempts are there in full, both here and on my blue Other Journalism<\/font><\/a> blog. <\/p>\n

I’ll take this as an opportunity to practice what I preached to my students<\/font><\/a>: “Tell the readers where they’re going. Use summaries and other navigation guides.” <\/p>\n

The technique is standard in online journalism, using headlines and summaries on a “front” or “section” page, linked to the full length story “inside the paper.” Similarly, a list of related headline-links can go at the end or along the side of a story, the way The New York Times<\/i><\/a> does it. This isn’t hard-news reporting, but from now on when a blog item gets longer than a few lines, I’ll put a short summary on that days blog page, with a headline linked to a longer “story” form, as I did with yesterday’s debugging item. <\/p>\n

And, as another navigation experiment, when something cross-links to my blue-framed Other Journalism<\/a> blog or to other things I’ve written, I’ll use a blue link. I’ll saving the default red ones for links to external sources. (I considered reserving crimson for Harvard blogs<\/a> and using some other color for the rest of the universe<\/a>, but decided that was getting too complicated.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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