By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
The quality of this full-screen Flash HD video (content from the BBC) is stunning. At home on DSL, it hung twice for me, but only for about 3 seconds each time. Right-click (Control-click/Mac) to get the true full-screen option.
Here’s another one, even more breathtaking, and shorter.
Found via a great blog, Flash Video, by Fabio Sonnati, [...]
Jeff Jarvis wrote about how to improve NPR. Not the content, but the organization. He’s got some excellent ideas.
I love NPR’s programs. I wish they were on a radio station that interspersed new and diverse music with their stories. But like many NPR affiliates, mine is all day classical and (retch) opera. So I listen [...]
Will Sullivan at Journerdism has posted a bunch of links related to the big Web-centric reorganization at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The AJC had talked publicly about this move before, but now it has a formal plan, which includes 80 voluntary buyouts.
The AJC’s article describes a plan to reduce the circulation area. This is a strategy [...]
Even though it’s freezing here in north-central Florida tonight, the Major League Baseball spring training season is about to begin. Boston.com built a neat package for all those die-hard Red Sox fans: Fan’s Guide to Fort Myers.
It includes three Google maps that use the free Atlas application to pinpoint sites of interest. A unique feature [...]
I just want to go on the record as saying that I am optimistic about LinkedIn. I’m busy and I’m over 40 and I have a blog — I do not have time for MySpace and Facebook. I don’t care one bit about them. People ask me all the time to be their “friend” in [...]
“How do you find time to look at all this stuff?” People often ask me that question.
The answer is twofold: It’s my job. And: Really, I don’t have the time. Other things suffer because I don’t allocate my time as well as I should.
This leads me to a comment about video and podcasts and all [...]
My friends Nora Paul and Laura Ruel have posted a good article at OJR: Multimedia storytelling: When is it worth it?
They summarize the first study conducted by DiSEL (the Digital Story Effects Lab) from a few years back. In the study, they looked at two versions of a BBC story package about the effects of [...]
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