By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
The incredibly talented Laith Bahrani (he of considerable fame for the JCB Song, about which a complete cult has developed) is now featured on MediaStorm with his latest music video (hmm, a bit of a departure for MediaStorm, eh?) — Creep, by Radiohead! WOW!
Don’t click unless you are an animation fan.
Special treat for Flash Timeline [...]
I love thinking about the ways in which humans invent and modify new technologies, only to see the use of technology in turn modify us and the way we do things.
My colleague Lauren sent me a link to this CNet story about declining emphasis on teaching cursive writing in primary school. The reason:
[A]s states [...]
Terry Heaton has the word:
If your web advertising strategy is built around page views, you’re going to have to find another way to sell. We’ve been saying this day would come for a long time, and today, The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Nielsen//NetRatings will drop the page view as a metric to measure [...]
Steve Safran reports on a heated panel discussion at NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters show:
The topic of this panel was “The New VJs: One-Man Bands or the Future of Newsgathering?” Moderator Chip Mahaney asked whether there is a difference between VJs and what we used to call “One-man-bands.” Rosenblum said absolutely yes, there is.
“A [...]
Paul Conley asks us to revisit the novel “The Great Gatsby” online.
What you’ll find is that even “Gatsby” cannot sing on a computer screen. Writing well is about choosing the right medium as much as it is choosing the right word. And the computer screen (or a PDA) is not the right medium for Fitzgerald.
So [...]
Mathew Ingram (of the Toronto Globe and Mail) has posted a good summary and very well-chosen links to the peer production of news reports about the shootings at Virginia Tech yesterday.
While that phrase “peer production” usually is used to refer to a coordinated effort, such as the production of open-source software, I think it’s [...]
I was just telling students yesterday in my Advanced Online course that when they are sitting in the online editor’s position one day in the future, and a big investigative project is under way in their newsroom, it will be their job to make it both appealing and manageable in an online format.
This means MORE [...]
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