By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
I came across a graphic showing hospital death rates in the United States (from USA Today), and I’d like to ask you to open it up and — as online folks like to say — play with it for a little while. Below are two screen captures (detail) to pique your interest, and below them, [...]
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.
Here’s an unusual package from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis: 13 Seconds in August.
After a reasonably short, arresting intro video, the package proper opens with a sliding aerial photo of the entire length of the 35W bridge after its collapse into the Mississippi River. Each vehicle in the photo is identified with a number [...]
Among the finalists for the Online Journalism Awards category “Outstanding Use of Digital Media,” three of the seven packages center on popular music: Forty Years of ‘RESPECT’ (Detroit Free Press), a tribute to the Aretha Franklin song; Hip Hop 101 (Wisconsin State Journal); Wonderful World (The Honolulu Advertiser), a tribute to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Let’s take a closer look —
A colleague from another university recently polled a Listserv about how students should test their online page designs. Here are some concrete data from this blog, from the FeedBurner statistics from Aug. 1-30, 2007.
First, the common screen resolutions used by real people:
You can see that although the screen resolutions larger than 1024 x 768 add [...]
Every year since 2001, Agence France-Presse has syndicated an awesome Flash package to paying clients such as The New York Times. Like every cycling fan, I’m pretty disillusioned by all the doping controversies surrounding the great race. But doping aside, for me, there’s no TV sports experience that even comes close to watching those men [...]
There’s a new design at DelawareOnline.com, one of those Gannett news sites that’s doing an Information Center-based, “we are all onliners” transformation. It has a clean and clear look overall — that’s a good thing. (I wonder: Will the sexy 3-D curves seem outdated in a few months? I do like them for now.)
There’s a [...]
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