By Mindy McAdams
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Newsweek made a good effort at capturing the online zeitgeist in this past week’s cover story, but here are some things they didn’t include:
Many people have neither the time nor sufficient interest to use the “cheap geeky software tools known as the Web’s ‘connective tissue.’” The question is, does that make those who do use […]
Some people have a knack for visual design, but most people — including most students in a journalism program — really could benefit from some training and instruction.
The Web site examples on this page can be fantastic teaching tools. Not only do you get to see a variety of current design techniques beautifully put into […]
In an Op-Ed for The New York Times (March 26), Edward Tenner asks whether Google and other search engines are making today’s students stupid.
We see this all the time among university undergraduates — they know how to use a search engine, but they don’t know how to use it WELL.
“Many students seem to lack the […]
You want to make a photo slideshow with sound and put it online. You know how to shoot photos and you have some idea how to gather audio and produce an MP3 file. But you don’t even own Flash, let alone know how to use it.
If you haven’t heard of Joe Weiss’ Soundslides, then listen […]
Illuminating insights from Andrew Locke, director of product strategy for MSNBC.com (Feb. 3, 2006).
The choice between using video and using still photos with audio, he wrote, “frankly has as much to do with time and the multimedia producer’s comfort level as it does with storytelling.” In Locke’s view, these are “very similar mediums and in […]
A new news site came out of beta about a month ago. It’s called Newsvine, and it’s the product of a good old-fashioned startup company (the kind we used to see by the dozens during the dot-com boom days) based in Seattle.
The premise is that a mix of rapidly posted wire stories and user-created news […]
Online now: NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism 2006 Web site winners.
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