Tag: interactivity
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Making interactive maps less interactive
Making interactive maps less interactive: Making maps, part 1: Less interactivity. Brian Boyer of the Chicago Tribune on a mission to teach you how to make interactive maps that don’t suck. Step 1 is indeed to make them less interactive. I buy it. There’s a full tutorial spread out in a few posts. Follow along, kids.
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On the difference between gameplay and gamification
On the difference between gameplay and gamification: Josh Korr on “why gamifying the news is so challenging.”
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Technology is easy; labor is hard
Aron Pilhofer of nytimes.com on the hardware, software, and costs associated with building the best interactive data projects in the news business: Everything we use is free and open-source. Our platform is Ruby on Rails backed by Mysql databases running on Ubuntu servers. The cost here isn’t software, or even hardware, which is relatively cheap…
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Thinking about media as a platform – Matt McAlister
A short explanation of how interactivity can change the game. Get off the stage, and let the readers add information of their own. Let them form a community around the information you’ve packaged for them. via Ingram. Thinking about media as a platform – Matt McAlister
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The next step after multimedia and interactivity? Just add data.
When I find myself face to screen with an online news site that is still in the Nightly Shovelware Posting stage, I think of two things: How can I add multimedia to this, and how can I add interactivity to this. I think a lot of us go the same route, especially those with more…
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Interactivity and Mass Communication
Mindy McAdams has a totally useful list of research on interactivity. Remind me to build a page like this out of my references. Interactivity and Mass Communication