By Mindy McAdams
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When The New York Times tackled the significant story of environmental consequences of China’s economic development, the producers bundled the print story together with three typical online media forms on the Web site: an audio slideshow, a video, and a graphic two-fer containing a lovely interactive map and a helpful animated graph.
Choking on Growth: [...]
A really nice-looking Flash map at the Miami Herald shows what a good artist and a good Flash designer can do when they put their talents together. You have a very pretty map of South America and Africa from Marco Ruiz, and very easy-to-use layover information boxes called up by buttons, thanks to the Flash [...]
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the WorldEvan Ratliff, June 26, Wired magazine
Since Google relaunched the software in June 2005, the stand-alone Google Earth program has been downloaded more than 250 million times. The program’s seamless zoom-in feature has become ubiquitous on television news shows. And there are dedicated sites — such as [...]
Wouldn’t you like to make maps of your local restaurants and other favorite spots? I don’t mean you, the private citizen (but maybe you too), but rather you, the newspaper. I know, I know — updating is the thing that scares you. It would scare me. How are you ever going to be able [...]
In a very thoughtful post, Simon Waldman (director of digital strategy and development for the Guardian Media Group) mulls over “the current frenzy with mash-ups.”
When is a map useful in storytelling?
I suppose it only works when the spatial difference between two points really matters. Or when you start to see clusters of similar activity….
A map [...]
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?
Read about how they [...]
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