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Mary Ellen’s Will: A multimedia critique

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 [...]

Forget e-paper — this is better

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 [...]

New York Times: New multimedia editor

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. Technorati tags: online journalism | multimedia | jobs

Magnum is doing video podcasts

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. Technorati tags: photojournalism | [...]

More free stats for bloggers

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 [...]

Videos about doing participatory journalism

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 [...]

I am interviewed, uncensored

Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media interviewed me (via IM — and you can see all my typos!). Unfortunately, I got very frustrated and called the Minneapolis Star Tribune “stupid.” They are among the smartest folks in the online newspaper game, but I called them a name because apparently they no longer link to photos, [...]