The Daily Telegraph today launched its new IT section ‘Connected’ (Newsline 09/04). The pull-out supplement is A4 in size and has 16 pages. Sections include Quick Bytes (quirky IT news stories), News, Interviews, In My Opinion (a celebrity column), Innovations, Reviews (books, games and software) and Faqs, Facts, Fax (help section for readers).
Overall ‘Connected’ is both entertaining and informative. The Quick Bytes stories are interesting and include pieces about an Iranian religious scholar using IT to call Muslims to prayer and a movement in America which has followed on from 19th Century Luddites by declaring war on new technology. Jonathan Ross is featured in this week’s In My Opinion and writes about his horde of computer gadgets which he can’t bear to get rid of.
More serious features include articles on computer viruses, investing in the Internet and the problem of regulating the Net. The centrepiece of this week’s edition concerns computer-generated organic art and there is an impressive spread of colour pictures to illustrate it. Text is relatively jargon-free and is clearly aimed at a more general audience.
The design however is basic and can look rather cluttered. There are small ads scattered throughout and the only full-page advert is on the back page.
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