Month: March 2007
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USAToday.com 2.0 – Recovering Journalist
Mark Potts weighs in on the USAT redesign and its design flaws. He’s a bit more specific than I am about what the design problems mean for user interaction on the site. USAToday.com 2.0 – Recovering Journalist
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Your Data Dashboard For A Democratic Society – Data360
Useful stockpile of public records data and other reports, all graphicized for ease of comprehension. Your Data Dashboard For A Democratic Society – Data360
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Your lowest-cost audio kit – Teaching Online Journalism
Olympus audio recorder: $80. Nady mic: $10. Teaching photojournalism students how to record audio and use Soundslides? Priceless. Your lowest-cost audio kit – Teaching Online Journalism
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Not Just A Number – Oakland Tribune/Inside Bay Area
Wow. Somebody — or several somebodies — have been practicing their chops up in Oakland. Multimedia, data, interactivity, all in one package about the most important story in Oakland. Damn that’s good. Who did this? Not Just A Number – Oakland Tribune/Inside Bay Area
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Telling the most important story in Oakland
This is WAY more than your average homicide map. Whoever put this together (I’m working on finding out who to credit) went to great deal of effort to tell what I’ll call the most important story in Oakland using multimedia, interactivity, and data.
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NYC24 Free Speech Online Wiki
A Columbia University new media class is looking for editors for a wiki about free online speech and the law. Specifically, it’s about bloggers getting sued, so if you’ve got the recent law chops, chime in and help these students demonstrate what a wiki NYC24 Free Speech Online Wiki
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FRONTLINE: news war | PBS
The News War series, all wrapped up in a free online bundle for convenient viewing. FRONTLINE: news war | PBS
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USA Today redesign: Nice function, not enough form
Notes from my first glance at USAToday.com’s redesign.
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I wouldn’t give Drudge that much credit
But if he did cause last week’s Wall Street sell-off with a single headline, then it makes a darn good case study for someone working on theory about things like “informational cascades.”