Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About multimedia

Make me cry.

November 17, 2007 – 9:47 am

I’ve been repeating versions of this on recent training rounds when folks ask about learning Flash, so I thought I’d post it here for reference and credit purposes…
Richard Koci Hernandez, near the end of a great Starter Kit page at Multimedia Shooter:
“Soundslides or Flash? Put it this way, if you don’t know what Soundslides is, [...]

Running for it: Covering an event with a cell phone and a point-and-shoot video camera

July 23, 2007 – 7:23 am

[UPDATE: If you're showing up at this post looking for coverage of the 2008 race, you should head straight to santacruzsentinel.com or check out the Sentinel's video right here.]
So here’s the assignment, kids:
Cover a 6-mile run with 15,000 registered participants, including a few hundred elite runners looking to finish in the money, and do it [...]

Another wonderful West Coast event I’m regretfully unable to attend - but you should

May 2, 2007 – 6:57 am

I promise, at some point next Fall, I will emerge from the land of the bisy backsons and start showing up for some of the really cool conferences and summits and conventions that the cool kids put together.
But for now, I’ll continue learning (and schmoozing) vicariously through those of you lucky enough to make it [...]

What I’ve been working on all week

April 22, 2007 – 7:29 am

I’ve been working with a reporter for the last couple months to help him put together a set of multimedia projects to run with his centerpiece in today’s paper.
Here’s the proverbial fruits of our labor: two audio slideshows, a video, and a podcast, all complementing his print stories by taking us behind the numbers (standardized [...]

Inspiration overload

April 18, 2007 – 6:04 am

It’s great that everyone in the online journalism/multimedia/interactivity/data layered network of posses (myself included) shares all the cool stuff they find