Tag Archives: rich media
11th International Symposium on Online Journalism
This weekend marks the 11th annual Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. In a nod to the times Multimedia Journalism students from UT Austin’s School of Journalism are live blogging the event throughout the weekend. As the Symposium is still going here are some of the most interesting points raised.
Anti-Social Graph
Speaking at the F8 conference yesterday Mark Zuckerberg a very simple programming API that will have a profound impact on the consumption of online news. One of the many criticisms of online news is its lack of serendipity. The argument is simple but important, in newspapers of old (the ones on paper) editors had control [...]
Iceland Volcanic Ash [Live Article]
just noticed the car is covered in a fine black dust #ashtag #iceland 3:42 PM Reactions from across Europe to the Iceland volcano, via BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/cSI6uw #ashtag 1:33 PM Will the Iceland Volcano Change the Climate? | LiveScience http://su.pr/2sKuRQ 1:17 PM Apparently John Cleese is stuck in Norway, poor guy #iceland #ashtag http://nyti.ms/9bFDVY (video [...]
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
The Mother of all Demos
In this video from 1968 Doug Engelbart gives, what he called, “mother of all Demos” in which he demonstrates the first modern PC-compete with mouse, keyboard, screen and a pre-courser to emails.
Haiti 360
The web runs on memes- memes (‘cultural units of knowledge’) are at the very heart of Web 2.0. The ‘Green Revolution’ in Iran last year ran on meme’s; users in Iran generated content that was retweeted and reported, emailed and IMed to followers and friends. There is a Reithian value to internet meme’s. In the [...]
Watch The Guardian do Web 2.0 Reporting Right
Have a look at this article from The Guardian. Journalist Matthew Weaver is creating a ‘live article’ tracking the weather conditions in the UK. This is how the print media should be responding to the social web and rich media. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jan/06/snow-day-live-blog
YouTube Subtitling
Google has announced it will launch two automatic subtitling features on its video sharing site, YouTube, from next week. The move is designed to allow deaf and hard of hearing users to fully enjoy YouTube content while also increasing the accuracy of video search results. It will also benefit foreign language users who will be [...]
In Focus
Is there a faith based response to the recession? With the National Director of The Saint Vincent de Paul calling on the Government to use the recession as an opportunity to create a fairer society. In this report I speak to several people of faith to see if their beliefs can help them through these [...]
