Also in Brussels - a picture tells more than thousand words

Yesterday, two stories on Brussels' online media caught my attention.

EurActiv has an article about the logo of the upcoming Swedish EU council presidency. And Honor Mahony of EUObserver blogged about a design competition for Brussels' EU quarter.

Both articles did not include any images.

Now you could argue that on the EurActiv story there is a link to the presidency website which features the logo. And you could say that Honor Mahony's writing style compensates the need for any visual illustration of the design proposals.

But it is still undeniable that any reader reading a story about a logo or a design competition would be interested to see how the logo or the design respectively look like.

EurActiv and EUobserver are largely text-based online media. And that is not a problem. They should, however, upgrade their content management systems to allow for some pictures, when useful.

And if one listened to the presentations given yesterday at the Digital News Affairs 2009 conference in Brussels then it seems that system (and editors) should quickly become ready for quick implementation of video too.

PS: See the logo here, the EU quarter designs can be viewed here.