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Archive for August, 2008
2008 SNDies judging currently underway at UNC
Hello from Chapel Hill! I am honored to serve as a judge for the 2008 Society for News Design multimedia competition and today is the second (and final) day of judging. The SND update blog has live updates of the finalists in each category so make sure to check it out! Yesterday, we judged breaking [...]
Solid 3D graphic production throughout National Geographic’s "Mapping Memory in 3D" interactive
National Geographic’s “Mapping memory in 3D” combines great 3D production with interactivity to simplify the complexity of the brain. It garnered an “Award of Excellence” at SNDies, and was certainly well-deserved!
Personal lesson to the advantages of object-oriented programming
OOP can be confusing at first (why all these class files anyways??) but, when done right, is extremely handy when it comes time to create templates to be customized at a later date. Here is a case-in-point to the benefits of object-oriented programming.
New York Times sets bar high with multimedia coverage of the Olympics
While the entire world is concentrating on Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin during the 2008 Olympics, the online world has it’s eyes on New York Times’ multimedia coverage of the events. In a matter of days, they have published some of the best breaking news sports packages, including graphics, slide shows, panoramas, interactives and other [...]
User-submitted multimedia database unifies those affected by cancer
One of the great advantages to judging multimedia competitions is the periodic influx of amazing multimedia projects to my inbox. While I was recently looking through the entries for the quarterly SNDies competition, one project in particular caught my eye. To be accurate, it was actually a part of a larger project that was linked [...]
Globe&Mail has wowed me!
While looking through my daily feeds and blogs, I have recently noticed one name time and again: Globe&Mail. Needless to say, GlobeAndMail.com is definitely on a roll. My personal favorite is a package on mental disabilities, titled, “Breakdown: Canada’s Mental Health Crisis.”
Online News Association lists 2008 finalists; Roanoke grabs two!
The Online News Association released their finalists today for the 2008 Online Journalism Awards. I am happy to announce that two of our projects garnered spots: Age of Uncertainty was selected for “Multimedia Feature, Small Site” and One Year Later for “Outstanding Use of Digital Technology, Small Site.” It’s always exciting when lists like these [...]
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