By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
These are interactive news packages I’ve selected to show to journalism students as we discuss some of the capabilities of Adobe Flash. Many are very recent.
1. Motion
The first thing students learn to do in Flash is animation. Although a lot of animation is merely eye candy, it can help to tell the story more effectively.
The [...]
Have you seen the L.A. Times homicides map? I’m sure you’ve marveled at the New York Times homicides map, and perhaps you have also admired the Boston Globe homicides map. The L.A. map, however, has a lot (a lot!) of fine features that the others lack.
One of my students wrote a critique of the L.A. [...]
Above you should see a map of the location of the ONA09 hotel. It is fully zoomable — it’s a full-feeatured Google Maps embed. Try it out.
This was done with the WP-Geo plug-in for WordPress, which we learned to use in the session titled “Dynamic Content Mapping.” Here is the PowerPoint for this session.
Inspired by Mark Luckie’s useful post about where to find the best in Flash journalism, coupled with the recent release of Flash CS4, I thought I might make a stab at discussing strategies for using Flash.
On Friday, one of our IT guys installed Flash CS4 on my Windows box at work. Whoa. Radically different! Adobe [...]
There’s a fine collection of interesting election graphics from news organizations and some magazines, at DesignO’Blog (thanks for the tip, Mark Barilla).
The one from GOOD magazine, while not interactive (print version only), is worth a look — it’s about issues, not votes.
You should also check out the 3-D how-each-county-voted map at washingtonpost.com. It rotates!
Erica Smith [...]
Although the popular vote was not a landslide, the map redrawn with the size of each state scaled to represent its population makes it clear that we are a majority blue nation. An explanation of the method used is here.
Via Steve Yelvington on Twitter.
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 [...]
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