By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
A year ago, Poynter launched NewsU, a free site for online learning about my favorite subject — journalism. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to register (it’s free), and most self-directed courses take only an hour or two.
Take a look at “Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News,” for example (start with the video documentary section; it’s good). [...]
I ran a test this morning and all is well. SWFObject (formerly FlashObject) performed perfectly in both IE 6 (the “updated” version) and Firefox 1.5. Later this week I will post an illustrated tutorial for those who feel timid about the JavaScript.
In case you have not read my previous post, this is all about making [...]
For visitors to your Web site who use IE, as of now (or very soon), your Flash content will not work properly for them. Your users with Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc., will not be affected. But all those average joes using IE are … well, screwed.
If you have a SWF embedded on the page with [...]
“I just don’t see enough innovation. I see a lot of hand-wringing.” That’s what Lauren Rich Fine said about newspapers on Saturday at the American Copy Editors Society convention in Cleveland.
Fine is an advertising and publishing industry analyst at Merrill Lynch, so her job is watching the newspaper business — and telling investors which companies [...]
Details about the NPPA 60th Anniversary Summit are online now. I will lead two separate workshops:
Beginning Flash 8: Basics of handling photos well in Flash and controlling the presentation with buttons.
Intermediate Flash 8: Making multi-part presentations that work well and load quickly. Also: Including sound files (MP3s) in Flash.
NOTE: Making and scripting control buttons will [...]
The announcement of a new worldwide news service on Monday set the gears of my brain turning. As I read Al-Jazeera’s report today about Bill Gates’s welcome in Vietnam, I realized that the churn in my head is about bias in the news.
The NAM News Network is
the transformation of the now-defunct NANAP or Non-Aligned News [...]
Stop the presses! A newspaper company conducted useful research! Yes, it’s true, and the smart company was E.W. Scripps, which owns the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) and the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel, among others.
If you like to surf around and check out what different news sites are doing with [...]
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