An interesting post today from charlie beckett about why news organisations are resistant to moving into the online arena that has interesting implications for education. Charlie argues that because editors typically see online as a drain on limited resources and dont see any incentives: “All the managers could see was a threat. This Online business [...]
There is a new beta version of soundslides, the quick and easy multimedia/audio slideshow authoring tool. Here is an example of a story on Iraq from the Spokesman Review Video Journal (thanks to Colin Mulvany and his informative mastering multimedia blog) The plus version allows more interaction with the images including camera movements, and the [...]
To mark Memorial Day in the US, the LA times has put up a statistical analysis of the military casualties from the State of California to date of Bush’s ‘War on Terror’. Called ‘California’s War dead’, it provides a fascinating insight into who is actually doing the fighting, and of course the dying. The page [...]
We are probably all familiar with maps of the world with the south pole at the top, or showing relative size per capita income or use of global resources etc: they act as an immediate visual paradigm shift in our perceptions in a way that simple raw data on a subject can’t match. In the [...]
Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up during the post election violence in Kenya to act as an incident reporting and tracking monitor for acts of [...]
traditional photojournalism in the form of the ‘sunday supplement’ photo essay is under siege: many have seen the web as the saviour of the genre. but does this mean simply transferring an old model into a new medium, or does it need a complete re writing of the rules? this thought provoking piece by stephen [...]
charlie beckett, the director of Polis has written a new book called SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World and in a blog entry related to it writes ‘“What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” Or put [...]
