By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
Google Maps API for Flash: “Lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. [T]his ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services, enabling you to embed robust, interactive maps applications …” (Examples here and here.)
Flash Player 10 is out in beta. Hank Williams [...]
Not only is this amusing animation directly related to a news story of great local interest in Detroit (the city’s mayor embroiled in scandal), but it was produced and posted in ONE DAY! Kudos to the Freep!
(Thanks to Sue B-B for the link!)
Background of the story here.
One of our journalism students, Ryan Moulton, is largely self-taught in Flash, although he’s now learning more about it in a course taught by one of our grad students, Dave Stanton.
Here’s the team graphic Ryan put up on the student daily newspaper site, in time for the University of Florida varsity baseball season opener: Baseball [...]
I’m off to Poynter to serve as guest faculty at the seminar titled Multimedia Journalism for College Educators.
As always, I have posted my links and materials. I’ll be presenting three sessions:
Transforming the Journalism Curriculum
How to Use Blogs in Teaching
Hands-on Flash for Beginners
Others have already blogged this, but it bears repeating — this is a beautiful package of data. Loads like lightning. Combines Flash and XML and HTML and CSS. Easy to figure out. Just a gorgeous example of what a team of smart, well-organized journalists can put together if they know what they’re doing.
Florida has its presidential primaries under way today, and The Miami Herald has produced a nifty data-driven map to show the results:
University of Florida journalism alum Stephanie Rosenblatt (May 2007) e-mailed to say that the Herald graphic is using feeds coming in live from the AP. The numbers are feeding into XML documents, and Stephanie’s [...]
Can you do great narrative storytelling purely in XHTML and CSS? Or do you need Flash?
This provocative question stems from a recent blog post by Khoi Vinh, design director for nytimes.com. He didn’t come straight out and ask that, but pretty close:
My complaint, right now, is that the majority of storytelling that happens on the [...]
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