Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative is getting a lot of exposure since its launch in early October. Let’s see what it is, how it works, and how you can publish your own AMP HTML pages.

In this age of speed, a page that takes more than a few seconds to load is losing its appeal, and this is especially important on mobile phones. The AMP project serves to mitigate this problem. The articles published in this format will be highlighted by Google in its search results from the beginning of next year.

Would you like to know more about it? I invite you to read the full version of this article I have published on SitePoint’s website: Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages.

Data journalism (MOOC)

Available on the Canvas platform, this course is titled Doing journalism with data: first steps, skills and tools and is part of the European Journalism Center initiative. It is aimed at providing concepts, techniques and skills to effectively work with data and produce compelling data stories.

Social share buttons are useless

Social share buttons are about everywhere. Ubiquitous on the web, they invite you to like, share or plus the most insignificant page to help its content being seen by hundreds or, why not, even millions of potential visitors. But are they as necessary as they want to make believe?