Who occasionally hangs out on my Writing for the web blog knows that I like notes on selected time-lapse finds. To kick off the long weekend, there are therefore two copies today as a little eye candy.

We wish you a nice weekend
Stefan Heijnk

Dear Readers,

the presentation of results for eye-tracking study "You can almost abolish the readers - young readers and newspaper apps" is now online.

Here is the press release published today, the FH Hannover:

The needs optimally designed newspaper app

Whether Frankfurter Rundschau, the time or the Rheinische Post - concepts for print media, there are many apps. Which concept but is really user-friendly? An eye-tracking study of FHH has now found an answer.

The optimum print media app waived a navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, it limited the features in the top navigation bar to the minimum necessary, she has a full table of contents, it offers its users besides texts - well measured - even videos and picture galleries and interactive graphics, the Product pages are single column, have a length of no more than 4500 characters, start with large format photos and the lead story lines have a width of 74-96 characters.

In this shorthand, the results from the current eye-tracking study by Prof. Stefan Heijnk bring that on the website of the FHH now at www.fh-hannover.de may be downloaded. Title of the study: "You can almost abolish the newspaper - Young readers and newspaper apps."

An interactive summary of the study results can be found in addition to www.prezi.com.

In the eye-tracking study was observed by eye-tracking method, as young readers use in the age group of 19 to 29 newspaper-bound applications on tablet computers. Was tested with the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau apps, Hamburg evening and The Wall Street Journal, as well as with the app the news.

The study was conducted as part of the E-CLIC research program of the European Union.

Contacts at the FHH is Prof. Stefan Heijnk,
E-mail: stefan.heijnk @ fh-hannover.de

The free daily newspaper Metro Herald from Dublin, Ireland, has recently - something full-bodied - declared the first fully expanded daily reality of the world.

In cooperation with Blippar, a UK-AR Appschmiede the editorial enriched in the past week with five editions of AR components. Including, for example, flanking news videos and interactive polls on current reports.

Succeeded in convincing the whole thing is rather not: the virtual product additions are plenty of homespun and not just embedded plausible for the newspaper contact. If such a short, hardly thumbnail-big news video (see screenshot) in the repeat only on Youtube - outside of the app - can be viewed, then the the users inevitably leads from the newspaper away. And the question to ask is already: What is this going to be good? AR is certainly not a good idea just for the sake of AR. When Metro Herald So lets rather learn how not to do it.

Metro Herald as a flipping e-paper
Who wants to do it for yourself, the newspaper needs the way, not only to Request from Ireland: The Metro Herald is a flipping e-paper online in the original layout available - including all AR markers. Is then needed only the Blippar app for smartphone, available for example in the App Store.

Although the implementation of the Metro Herald, so not really rips off the stool and had other newspapers even earlier on Augmented Reality in the leaf (in Germany, for example, the Rhein-Zeitung in February 2010 or the Süddeutsche Zeitung in August 2010), it also shows this project AR is obviously an issue for newspapers.

For those who want to save installation time, there are some impressions in this video:

Tablet look for the website: The BBC Online Editorial currently planning a relaunch of its flagship mobile site and wants to customize the appearance of "tablet computers by changing reading habits."

There is a first impression in a beta version.

The BBC executives certainly do well to present the proposed revisions already pre-and integrate the user community at an early stage. The last relaunch was heavily criticized by the users.

René Pfister is to be hoped that the case is slowly disappearing from the point of view of the professional public. However, the denial of his Henri Nannen price was the starting point of an important debate, yes, a lesson on the documentary as journalistic presentation. She posed key questions: What can reporters and reporters what they can not? Where is the boundary between fact and fiction?

The Reporter has compiled a reader forum this summer, documenting this debate in its many facets and points of view - by Stephanie Nannen articles in Hamburg evening paper to Andreas Wolfers classification in the Süddeutsche. Not only for journalistic practice, and for the teaching of journalism Reader is a useful gleanings.

The reader can here be downloaded.

Including an indication of our own: The Reporter Forum has recently invited me to participate in the Webreportage Jury Prize in 2011. I look forward to the task - and especially on the submissions to be evaluated.