Tag Archives: multimedia

bookmarks for December 27th, 2012

What the New York Times’s ‘Snow Fall’ Means to Online Journalism’s Future – Technology – The Atlantic Wire – – (none)
How The New York Times’ ‘Snow Fall’ project unifies text, multimedia | Poynter. – The discussion of how the piece was composed demonstrates that it is more like vid and simulation inserted into the text stream that structures the story, in a very conservative, none-risky way. "better design" here means using the genre-traditional structure to guide the placement of other media. Media are added on not integral to. That's not future. What's revealing is that the designers are basing their choices on traditional text-encompassed values. – (multimedia multimodal journalism semiotics )
Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: An Even Matchup? – mark the secion on collaboration: not ral time but asynch, using comments and markup – (collaborativewriting collaboration )

VoiceThread – Group conversations around images, documents, and videos – Yet another social media exchange. Similar to a wiki page in that comments and layers are associated with the specific target. Unlike a wiki and more like a blog in that the target itself is not modified but layered. But the layering is interesting. It means that a target can have different sets of commentary and notes: a different story for the same diegesis, different emphases of the same ground … – (socialpractices socialmedia multimedia multimodal de web collaboration presentation voicethread audio twwt )
Fix Your Track Record: What to Do About Embarrassing Projects From Your Past – – (blogging freelancing )