Another thing that’s hard to fit into a journalism curriculum is graphic design. Often we have design wedged into the editing class, and the person teaching the class is someone who’s far, far more experienced with the AP Stylebook than with use of color and typography.
This post by a semi-anonymous Web designer provides a condensed […]

I find it hard to spend enough time on teaching concepts of usability to journalism students. We have so few courses in which they can learn about digital media. This article about dimensions of usability provides a good one-stop starting place.

Effective: Can the users get what they came to get?
If a user cannot actually do […]

Short and sweet: How to tell a great story, by Seth Godin. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. There are informational packages, and then, there are stories. Some stories are linear. Multimedia stories can be linear, but past a certain length, they must be nonlinear.
The question is, how do you construct a nonlinear […]

I should have known Macromedia (Adobe) would address the gnarly IE ActiveX problem. The updater can be downloaded from this page. This update is for Flash 8 only. It works as a MM extension (.mxp), so you download it, unzip it, and then launch the Macromedia Extension Manager to easily install it. Just look inside […]

Get the straight dope about on-demand video from CNN.com (David Payne), ABC Digital (Bernard Gershon), CBS Stations (Jonathan Leess), NYTimes.com (Vivian Schiller) and Advanced Media Ventures Group (Shelly Palmer) via Cory Bergman blogging live (yesterday) from NAB.
The Lost Remote team has been covering the heck out of the gigundo NAB conference. It’s almost as good […]

The big announcement from BBC News worries me: My favorite online news site will be radically transformed, and maybe I won’t like the result! The BBC online will be reorganized around the concepts “share,” “find” and “play.”
I have to admire their nerve, though. It’s a brave and farsighted vision. See Mark Thompson’s speech to the […]

Multimedia and story packages:
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roanoke.com/The Roanoke Times (Going Down the Crooked Road)
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) on NorthJersey.com (Special Report: Toxic Legacy)
sacbee.com (The Pineros; Men of the Pines)

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