By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
This map from MSNBC.com is a great example of a clear, easy-to-understand interface. You don’t need any instructions at all to figure out how it works.
Islam in Europe
I’m a huge fan of the single-screen, no-scrolling approach. This package fits on my 1024 x 768 screen with absolutely no scrolling, and even the text blocks that [...]
An interactive map graphic from USAToday.com: “Sun Belt’s population grows as Gulf Coast suffers.”
Make sure you click the Louisiana area and roll over the counties. This is how a graphic tells a story!
It’s relevant, it’s important, and who else but a newspaper would ever do this much work in the public interest?
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This is a cool way to scan the news: Reverbiage uses keywords from the National Public Radio headlines feed to represent news topics in a compact graph. You can slide it to go back in time. Roll over a block to see the headline, and click to go the the story at NPR’s Web site. [...]
Here are a couple of unusual multimedia examples to tide you over the weekend:
A Quick Look at the Los Angeles Marathon
Be sure to look at this one soon, because the L.A. Times has a nasty habit of taking their multimedia offline or changing the URL — and then you’ll never find it again. It struck [...]
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An idea for training multimedia journalists
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The SXSW Web award finalists have been posted. I have never had the chance to go to this huge festival of music, film, video and interactive design in Austin, Texas, but someday … !
Well, it is just plain dangerous to start looking at such lists of award-nominated Web sites. The very first one on the [...]
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