tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64598080091727506692012-02-16T18:34:05.736-08:00MidialogismRenato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-62366739976223686982009-02-12T14:17:00.000-08:002009-02-12T15:06:43.767-08:00Casa Grande Dispatch mixes funny illustrations and end with a major design-strokeOh my God, the friends at Casa Grande Dispatch really did it this time. In consideration for all their efforts, Midialogism is awarding them the Cascatinha Trophy of the Worst Cover Page of the day. The use of unnecessary ilustrations of hearts is primitive. The rescalling, a complete failure, with a funny distortion as a result. The photographs themselves aren't alarming, but, framed inside Renato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-41218512170111744302009-02-12T14:04:00.000-08:002009-02-12T14:16:27.801-08:00Google buys a... paper industry!In an ironic move, internet-gigant Google anounced today acquired a mill site from a paper industry based in Finland (Stora Enso).Not that the top brand will really debut on the print business. Google's interest is probably linked to the construction of another data center to enhance its resources and our web experience. But it is indeed a funny move.More on TechCrunchStora Enso's press release Renato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-49513432840543853762009-02-11T15:06:00.001-08:002009-02-11T15:17:52.529-08:00Newsweek's weapons against the crisis. Will it work?As an article from the "New York Times" revealed, Newsweek, the second largest magazine in the US, will face some major changes in the next months in its struggle to survive.Modestly, I think that they're on the right track. As Midialogism have been defending, print media got to change to survive, and this evolution will obligatory include more investments on analytical, transparent and Renato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-85169621373905209442009-02-11T15:02:00.001-08:002009-02-11T15:05:04.854-08:00How (not to) use colors in a newspaper's front page - a Brazilian paper show usIt is tough to avoid awarding the "kaleidoscope" of colors, stories, facts and photos presented by "Amazônia Hoje” newspaper today. It deserves to be honored with the Cascatinha Trophy of the Worst Front Page of the day. The organization of the informative blocks is terrible, almost absent. There’s an all-confused use of colors.The anchor of the page is the bikini woman, but placed in such way Renato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-76996948451631268202009-02-11T14:55:00.000-08:002009-02-11T15:04:18.963-08:00Endangered "New York Times" debates the future of newspapers"New York Times" – the title itself at great peril - promotes one interesting debate on the future of journalism, with respectable people. Or is the debate about the future of printed papers? We have to take care about the use of synonyms in cases like this. The culture of free papers is suicidal, the current periodicals are dispensable and will have to change to charge, independent foundations Renato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-5180623146336329002009-02-11T14:05:00.001-08:002009-02-11T14:43:40.309-08:00"The Signal" does not signalize anything to its readersThe Signal - Saint Clarita Valley is the true winner of today's Cascatinha Trophy of the Worst Newspaper's Cover Page.It is a less obvious choice, but pedagogic because it signalizes various aspects that simply do not work in the cover page of a newspaper.It starts being too "heavy". The main image - the visual anchor, as I like to call it - of the page is a logotype! A clue that something is Renato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6459808009172750669.post-20482864276011577782009-02-11T12:28:00.000-08:002009-02-11T12:36:18.186-08:00Midialogism now in English!Considering the expressive traffic from the US that this blog in its Portuguese version have been receiving in the past weeks (probably driven by the name of american newspapers as keywords here), Midialogism (a journalist meets Bakhtin and the Discourse Analysis) will from now on be also published in English.Hope you all excuse minor grammatical errors and leave many many comments to broaden andRenato Essenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17774345506893285017noreply@blogger.com0