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APRIL 29

APRIL 22

  • Interactive: 2008 NFL Draft (Mike)
  • Freeplay Music—Darin
  • What makes a great photo? The Papal visit (Reuters) “An interesting challenge is how to tell the story without including the subject in the photographs. It’s interesting because, by avoiding the obvious and familiar, sometimes a greater sense of the occasion, and the emotions involved, can be conveyed.”
  • Check NewsWatch for additional multimedia for your zine stories.
  • E-mail Carol a short bio similar to what's on the zine.
  • http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080404/SPT02/304030103/

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APRIL 10

  • Craigslist poised for $81 million in 2008 revenue, could top $100 million. “Craigslist stands to bring in $81 million in revenue in 2008, according to a report by researcher Classified Intelligence. If that comes true, it would represent a 47 percent gain over Craigslist’s $55 million revenues for 2007.”
  • The world according to newspapers: The cartograms show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them.
  • Review of new free online Photoshop Express for photo editing (Picnik, Splashup)
  • iReport.com, CNN’s new citizen journalism site, features audience-submitted photos and videos. The content is NOT vetted by journalists. The site explicitly states, “CNN makes no guarantees about the content or the coverage on iReport.com”—quite a bold statement from a reputable news organization, not to mention one that brands itself as the “Most Trusted Name in News.”
  • Branding
    My Times > Want Suggestions > Select a Journalist > All Journalists > Andrew Revkin
    Bad Astronomy Blog
  • http://www.break.com/index/compilation-of-reporters-getting-owned.html

APRIL 8

  • What’s Your Type? quiz for your Flash project.
         Obama’s newcomer Gotham has a classy and clean feel.
         Clinton’s New Baskerville has flourishes that conjure trustworthiness.
         McCain’s classic, sans serif Optima has an old-fashioned yet quirky vibe.
  • A video interview with designer Roger Black about what the font you choose says about you. It also talks about the typefaces of McCain, Obama and Clinton.
  • We Feel Fine (Jordan)
  • We Feel Fine by city (Jordan)
  • NPPA winner: The Washington Post’s Fixing D.C.’s Schools project is a good example of planning stories from the ground up—video for some parts, graphics for others, audio slideshows elsewhere.
  • NPPA winner: Other than storytelling and good photography, the audio sets one person above everyone else. That means well-placed, meaningful natural sound as well as effective voiceovers. The best voiceovers are done by the subjects, which enable them to tell their stories directly. Fair Weather Fun has great natural sound.
  • NPPA winner: Our Hidden Poor. Instead of using slideshows as containers for photo galleries, aim for a narrative arc. Eliminate redundant photos, coordinate visuals with audio and incorporate transitional, environmental and close-up shots.
  • NPPA winner: Living With Autism is a great audio slideshow with Soundslides.
  • Webby Finalists—everyone vote!

APRIL 3

  • Azcentral.com relaunched with a new, cleaner and more user-friendly look.
  • Digital Journalist is a monthly multimedia magazine for photojournalists in the digital age.
  • Craigslist poised for $81 million in '08 revenue, could top $100 million (paidContent.org): "Craigslist stands to bring in $81 million in revenue in 2008, according to a report by researcher Classified Intelligence. If that comes true, it would represent a 47 percent gain over Craigslist's $55 million revenues for 200

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  • Map My News from the Rocky Mountain News: This appears to be a new service powered by Yahoo that involves geotagging and mapping certain Rocky stories. Also, some story pages (like this one) offer a sidebar newsmap feature, again from Yahoo. This service has its bugs and rough edges, but it’s worth watching. It could be valuable if it’s done more consistently and if the map content is made more intuitive and usable (not just repurposing print headlines).
  • Cover It Live is a Web-based live blogging tool that is quickly being adopted by bloggers and journalists reporting on a range of events. The interface is easy to learn, and the ability to incorporate comments and take instant polls enlivens the coverage.
  • You can add a widget for live blogs that you plan to hold.
  • Live blogging a state boys prep school school basketball tournament
  • Amy Gahan, a media consultant based in Boulder, Colo., uses the Twitter ID amylive as a “live microblogging” tool for event coverage. (That way she doesn’t overwhelm her followers at her regular Twitter ID, agahran, with a stream of very frequent posts.)
  • Recent visitors to a number of news Web sites in Ohio and Texas have discovered a common theme proclaimed, megaphone-style, at the top of the page: “Vote for Barack Obama.” The message had nothing to do with news or editorial endorsement. The red, white and blue banner dropping down into the home pages of such papers as the Akron Beacon Journal and the Houston Chronicle was paid political advertising, as the small print indicates at the bottom of the ad: “Paid for by Obama for America.”
    There’s nothing new about political advertising—on various news platforms—on the eve of critical elections. But MediaWeek reported last week that the ad “represents the first major Web effort for a presidential candidate to incorporate video.” Mediaweek said the ad has been placed on the sites of 26 local TV, radio and newspaper Web sites in Ohio and Texas.
  • Annalyn—The Other Red Meat
  • Phil—Muy Thai
  • Illustrated timeline of U.S. women warriors since Revolutionary War
  • Illustrated timeline of Second Battle of Fallujah
  • Interactive timeline shows how a newspaper is recycled

FEBRUARY 28

  • Mapped Up—Madison
  • Generators in Miami—The Miami Herald, in the midst of an area of Florida hit by massive electric outages, posted a map showing the locations of gas stations with generators—and shows whether each report is confirmed or unconfirmed. Could you access the map without electricity?!? Is this journalism?
  • Nevada Earthquake Map from the Salt Lake Tribune: On Feb. 21, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in the northwestern corner of Nevada was felt throughout the SLC region. Tribune Web producer Kim McDaniel explains how they jumped into action with this map: “We immediately put up an update story and solicited reports and photos from readers. As those started to come in, I repurposed a map we had built in MapBuilder, along with our admin pages and existing database from a holiday light display map we had done back in November. We relaunched it as an earthquake map, with a form for readers to submit where they were and what they felt, heard or saw during the quake.
  • Faked Chinese Photo

FEBRUARY 21

FEBRUARY 19

VALENTINE’S DAY

  • Use del.icio.us to do research:
    Veganism
     Energy
    HPV
  • Live-blogging on ESPN of congressional hearings about whether Roger Clemens used performing-enhancing drugs.
  • Love by Jodi Cobb
    Three stages | Arranged marriages in India | Taiwanese men shopping for brides in China | Lolitas acting out against traditional marriage in Japan
  • http://politicker.com/

FEBRUARY 7

FEBRUARY 5

  • Dan Gillmore: Wikipedia is a great place to start, and a terrible place to stop.” wikiscanner enables Wikipedia users to search edits made anonymously and identify the organizations where the posts originated.
  • The State Press in Wikipedia Nipplegate account was changed from “an overall account” by the New Times to “an admittedly biased account.” Last year a paragraph was deleted that called Crow’s presidency controversial.
  • To broaden its online audience, the Washington Post just launched Root.com, a zine for African Americans with news and commentary on politics and culture, and tools for readers to research their family histories. The founders see the magazine “as a more highbrow, political alternative to established magazines like Ebony and sites like BlackAmericaWeb.com and BlackVoices.com. The Root’s emphasis on genealogy will set it apart from those competitors, which pay more attention to entertainment, lifestyle and consumption.”
  • PolitiFact, a service of the St. Petersburg Times and CQ.com, launched on August 22. The site aims to fact-check campaign claims in the 2008 presidential race. It cuts a wide swath of coverage and is user friendly. Check out Obama Girl.
  • How Recent Presidents Stack Up
  • Trip Notes from the Middle East debuted on Jan. 8 with a couple posts by White House Press Secretary Dana Perino. There’s even a post by President Bush. The blog is serious the most part, except for Gioia from California:
    Mr. President, A silly question, but who picks your attire for all the important events you attend? Love your ties
  • George W. Bush
    Dear Gioia, I pick my own suits and my own ties. Thank you for the compliment about the ties, and thank you for your question.
  • You’re a photo editor at a news Web site. How would you determine if these photos indeed depict Hurricane Katrina?








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JANUARY 17

  • What uses can you think of for SeaDragon, a new technology that does amazing things with technology? Microsoft software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities and then displays the photos in a reconstructed 3-D space, showing you how each one relates to the next.
  • zoomquilt is Another multidimensional use of images. Zzoom in and out with your mouse.
  • zoomquilt II is a Flash movie that goes only one way—interesting, but less so because you aren’t driving.
  • You’re getting ready to do a voiceover for a SoundSlide or video when you stumble across a word in your script you don’t know how to pronounce. At this point you can:
    1) Guess—and hope you don’t embarrass yourself.
    2) Suck it up, and ask a colleague, wherein said person will secretly snicker at you forevermore for not knowing how to pronounce [INSERT NOUN HERE].
    3) Admit defeat, and rewrite the damn thing.
    4) Use HowJSay.com.

JANUARY 15

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