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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for May 2006

Useful uses of Google Trends

Friday, May 12, 2006

What do you learn if you check Google Trends for four popular audio editing tools — Sonar, Cubase, GarageBand and ProTools? Check out the neat comparison chart at GarageSpin, a good blog that covers audio recording technology. A heck of a lot of people are searching for Cubase … I never heard of it!
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Jordan’s War package (critique 3)

Thursday, May 11, 2006

The problems in this package keep circling round like hungry wolves — they won’t go away. It’s the pieces. Too much stuff in too many pieces.

I want to like it, and I do like it. It’s like a nice supper beside the campfire. There’s a lot to like. But there are those wolves …
The package [...]

Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Edward Tufte has a new book. Oh my! One chapter is titled “Links and Causal Arrows: Ambiguity in Action,” and another is “Words, Numbers, Images — Together.”
I remember the day I found Tufte’s Envisioning Information in the Mid-Manhattan Library. I think it was in 1991, and I was trying to figure out how to write [...]

What lies ahead for online news?

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

For WSJ.com’s 10th anniversary, users were asked to share their ideas for the perfect news site 10 years from now. Here’s what they said they want:

Reliable filters to compensate for information overload.
Mobile options for news and information. To go along with that, they want new mobile devices that have more memory storage, bigger screens, and [...]

Jordan’s War timeline (critique 2)

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Don’t be fooled by the dry title — Through the Lens of Military History is a cool package with photos, text, and one video clip that tells the story of how wars have been documented with photography.
This added feature in the Jordan’s War package (from The Roanoke Times, in Virginia) reminds me of one of [...]

Jordan’s War photo gallery (a critique)

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

This is the first in a series of posts I will make about Jordan’s War, an excellent multimedia package produced by Seth Gitner at The Roanoke (Va.) Times. The package made its debut in March 2006, which is when I first saw it.
I wanted to use this package as an example because it’s produced by [...]

Search is more important than you realize

Sunday, May 7, 2006

This is too good to bury deep inside my earlier post about the Maine blogger story:
Soon after the lawsuit came to light, Mr. McCartin [Tom McCartin, president of Warren Kremer Paino Advertising] told Ad Age he was most concerned about the blog because if potential clients search for the agency online, they could see the [...]