Talk about a cool interface! This would work for certain online journalism stories, I’m quite sure. It is sooo easy to use!
This example comes from the great Web site of the great Scott McCloud, author of both Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. I learned a LOT about storytelling from Understanding Comics back in 1993. At […]

Kudos to The New York Times, which used Google Maps to create a three-year (2003-2005) map of homicides in the five boroughs of New York City. The idea is copied from Adrian Holovaty’s award-winning Chicago Crime site, but that’s okay.
If a newspaper is going to provide a crime map today, this is the way to […]

My questions about how to teach storytelling skills to journalism students persist, so I perked up when I saw an article by the producer of a TV documentary about physics. The title, Seven Rules for Making a (Science) Movie, didn’t grab me, but the blurb on the RSS feed was:
“Filmmaker David Sington shares seven rules […]

An earnest young student described his plans to me last week: He wants to write a series of humor columns. Or maybe they would be entertainment columns. They might really be movie reviews. In any case, he would be telling us what he thinks about popular culture, you see? And if he puts these columns […]

Talk about transparency! You can see everything about costs and services at the BBC’s Web site. I went to take a look because Jeff Jarvis addressed the matter without providing any figures.
What does the BBC cost the good people of Britain? In 2004-05, it was £10.08 a month, or £120.96 a year. At today’s exchange […]

Doug Fisher writes:
Just as the newspaper industry is slowly — only slowly — learning that blogging isn’t blogging just because you use blogging software, it has to learn that video isn’t video (or useful) just because you give a reporter or photographer a camera and show him or her where the start button is.
Brilliant and […]

Books I’m thinking about requiring for my fall course, New Media and a Democratic Society:
Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, by John Battelle
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by […]