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Adam Westbrook’s “10 trends in journalism in 2010″ video a must-see
British multimedia blogger Adam Westbrook just made my day with his entertaining and right-on predictions for journalism in 2010. For those in a rush, I included his 10 predictions here, but his video is really worth seeing in its entirety because he makes some excellent points regarding each prediction. Thanks for the inspiration Adam – it sounds like 2010 has a lot in store for new media journalists!
Six must-see interactive movie Web sites
While the movie industry may go a little overboard in their use of Flash for their promotional Web sites, the end products are still extremely innovative. Included here are six movie sites we recently came across and subsequently spent over an hour immersing ourselves in their engaging sites. Enjoy!
Integrating bots into multimedia for a virtual reality interaction
What if intelligent agent simulators, also known as bots, could be programmed to create a virtual reality experience for multimedia storytelling? Stay with me on this one. During my Human-Information Interaction class, 30 masters students spent an hour conversing with software robots, including Alice and John Lennon. If UNC masters students could enthusiastically chat back and forth with bots for an hour, I have a feeling this could be potentially the next biggest thing for interactivity and multimedia on the web.
FlarToolkit introduces augmented reality using Flash
My former classmate Jason Tucker passed along a fascinating concept that he discovered using FlarToolkit. In layman’s terms, he described it to me as a tool that “uses your webcam, tracks a shape and then uses that with PaperVision and Flash Player 10 to create an augmented reality.” He continued by saying that “you could potentially use it to track a person’s eyes and use their webcam to control a panoramic image as they rotate their head.” That got my attention!
New York Times proves it’s innovation with election wrap-up
New York Times just launched a summary presentation of the presidential election with an innovative video, including motion graphics, interactivity, photos, and archival footage from the past two years. Take note: “2008 Election – Choosing a President” is journalism at it’s greatest.
Wisconsin State Journal applauded for multimedia efforts
The Wisconsin State Journal has officially been added to my list of newspaper websites to browse for innovative multimedia projects. Comparable in size to The Roanoke Times, this mid-size paper in Madison, Wisconsin, knows how to push the envelope in terms of multimedia. And, more importantly, they know how to have fun in the process. [...]
A case study of a 2008 SNDies multimedia winner: MediaStorm
MediaStorm’s entries kept judges busy talking at the SNDies 2008 multimedia competition. They have conquered the industry of beautiful storytelling, but they also need to concentrate on how to showcase these videos within larger multimedia sites to truly set them apart.
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