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Archive for 30 June 2009
Honduras: dispatches from the field
Hello from Honduras! I wanted to update everyone on my work here in southwestern Honduras and point you to my project page and blog on The Pulitzer Center’s Website. They just finished building it late last week, so now I can continually post my updates on there …
Best of Innovative Interactivity, June 2009
While posts have gone down significantly this month due to my absence while in Honduras, I’ve been happy to see site visits and pageviews remain about the same. Thanks for bearing with me, and I promise to get back to blogging more in the fall!
Multimedia coverage of sporting events
In this week’s edition of II’s summer guest blogger series Brian Vernellis, former sports producer at The Times in Shreveport, La., discusses the importance of integrating multimedia elements into traditional sports coverage, and highlights specific examples of successful sports packages.
FlashTip: Updated tips on SWFAddress
Since October, I have been receiving at least one email a week on my deeplinking with SWFAddress tutorial. I thought that one in particular might be of use to others trying to master deeplinking, so I am posting it here with his approval.
A gentle introduction to the Django Web framework
In this week’s edition of II’s summer guest blogger series, Richard Cornish discusses Django, both providing examples of Django projects and a brief history of how it came about. Cornish is an interaction designer at the Lawrence Journal-World, where Django was developed.
UNC launches News21 multimedia project
Twelve UNC students are spending their summer working on a News21 project, titled “Powering a Nation.” News21 is a part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative and involves faculty and students from five participating universities. According to their Twitter bio, UNC’s project examines “the quest for energy in a changing USA.”
Why we, as institutions and companies, should friend and tweet
In this week’s edition of II’s summer guest blogger series, Chilean journalist and academic María Angélica Kaltwasser discusses the importance of integrating social media tools into business models, both within academic institutions and journalism organizations. This post comes on the heels of the New York Times’ announcement of their new social media editor, proving that social media is a vital component to the future of any business, marketing and/or advertising profession.
Summer guest blogger series line-up
I am leaving for Honduras this Friday to report on malnutrition for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. I will be gone until July 17th, therefore I have asked guest bloggers to help II prosper while I’m gone. Thanks to everyone who offered to help blog. I am proud to say that I have a great list of bloggers covering some pretty awesome topics, so keep an eye out for the following posts:
New York Times presents War Without Borders
New York Times produced their second interactive video last week, titled “War Without Borders.” The first, “Choosing a President,” created quite a large buzz amongst the numerous online communities, including this blog. Now that they have a template to streamline these bad boys, I am extremely excited to see the integration of these interactive portals into otherwise stand-back-and-watch video galleries.
Guantanamo Bay interactive presents data effectively
I wanted to highlight a recent AP interactive, titled “Shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp” for several reasons. First, I blogged about another AP interactive, “Bailout Tracker,” that did not use data visualization as effectively as this example, and I thought the two could be used as a great case example. Second, this type of story is the ideal situation to present data to the users, allowing them to find their own story.
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