By Mindy McAdams
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I’ve written here before about how much I admire Edward Tufte’s work in visual communication. Last Sunday, NPR broadcast a good story about Tufte and his work that sums up his most recent book, Beautiful Evidence. We also hear from a variety of people who have attended one of Tufte’s one-day seminars.
Best of all, [...]
There’s a lot to be said about how well the Dallas Morning News handled this big investigative story on the Web. While the entry page could be a bit more attractive (hasn’t anyone heard that headlines in bigger type sizes draw the reader’s eye and help her make sense out of the information?) — I [...]
This is the human-computer interface I want to see: “High resolution. Low cost. Very scalable.” Play the video all the way through.
I imagine content inside content inside content … It’s like that interface in the air Tom Cruise used in Minority Report. I want to see this meshed with News Maps! Yeah!
(Compare flexible active-matrix [...]
Andrew DeVigal’s the man. Cyberjournalist has the memo. This is exciting because Andrew really knows his stuff. We should see some cool work coming up.
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You can just play them online from this page (no downloading required). The first one I looked at, “The Path to Buddha,” by Steve McCurry, was utterly awesome. Gorgeous, gorgeous images. And great sound!
Take a break right now and watch some. All you need in Quicktime — and that’s free.
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There are so many free and easy ways to publicize a blog and attract more readers to it. A very important one is to make the blog available as an RSS feed, and Feedburner makes this so simple, you really don’t have to know anything about feeds to make it happen.
What’s more, Feedburner gives you [...]
Two videos that might be good to show to journalism students:
Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture comes out of a conference held at Harvard University in May 2006. It has an annoying voiceover (stiff, pompous) but some good interviews and sound bites.
Citizen Journalism: Pamphlet to Blog was produced by a three-month class [...]
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