All entries tagged: QR code
At National Post, two-dimensional barcodes link print readers to web
As visitors to Google know, today is the barcode’s 57th birthday. (Those cutting-edge parallel lines received their first patent on October 7, 1952.) That seemed like a good occasion to check on a related technology that a few newspapers have toyed with this year: two-dimensional barcodes, also known as matrix codes.
When The National Post, the [...]
QR code: tool for journalists?
Michael Josefowicz, self-styled “print evangelist” and a frequent commenter here at Nieman Journalism Lab, has a new post at PBS’s MediaShift that will bring you up to date on QR codes, which look to be “CueCat done right.”
QR stands for “quick response.” QR codes are two-dimensional scanning code blocks that can be placed in print [...]
