Managing Multimedia Projects - Week 2Favorite Multimedia Projects
1. NPR as a whole is one of my favorite mmp. I listen to the radio every morning on my way to work. Many times when I get to the office, I log on to their site to find more information about what I just heard.
Recent examples of projects I've liked are:
- Pinpointing Airports With High Rate Of Bird Strikes, an interactive map that shows the US airports with the highest rates of wildlife strikes. This was done in the aftermath of the now-famous US Airways pilot who successfully landed a plane in the Hudson River after being hit by a flock of birds.
- The Obama Tracker, which charts significant events and developments in the new administration.
2. Only recently did I discover a great gadget used by he Washington Post, called "Understand more about..." It's a small window with circles containing the names of all the actors mentioned in the story. When you click on any name, it tells you what other stories have been written about this person, business, etc. Check out one of today's examples to understand better how this works—"The Depression Test". "Understand more about" is the genius invention of Evri, a Seattle company that "is building a way for content to network–a way for that great article you just read to make meaningful connections with every other contextually relevant article, paper, blog, image, audio clip or video on the web. With more than 15 billion documents on the World Wide Web today, there could be hundreds of thousands of documents with similar keywords requiring readers to sort out what is relevant. Evri’s technology automates connections between Web content by applying a more human-like understanding of the words on the page. We think that there is a big opportunity to help website publishers better engage their readers and help readers discover compelling content in a new and addictive way." Evri is still in beta.
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3 comments:
Maria,
Thanks for highlighting some of these multimedia tools - that I'd NEVER seen before. The Obama tracker - bar graphic that when you hover over a line shows pics and gives details - is VERY cool.
The Evri generated site with the circles seems like a good way to get new info on the people in the story you've just read. But I wonder if these tools are improving readership on news websites?
I placed below a clip of info from the Pew Foundation's 2009 report on the State of the News Media:
"But audiences now consume news in new ways. They hunt and gather what they want when they want it, use search to comb among destinations and share what they find through a growing network of social media.
And the news industry does not know—and has done less than it could to learn—how to convert this more active online audience into revenue."
Tools are cool - but we got to make a living. Do these help? I guess we'll find out in our class this semester.
Just some thoughts -
Sheila
Sheila, thanks for your insightful comment. I actually like these tools and I think they introduce us to new things that we weren't aware of. My concern with all these tools added to each piece of information is --and I don't know if this is just my problem or a general one-- that most times I end up spending a ridiculous amount of time going over them and never finish reading what I was originally interested in! I need to make a conscious effort not follow the myriad of links and keep my focus.
Maria, I love the photo slideshow/narration of women in the Congo. What beautiful photos. I really like the presentation overall. The photographer used some great angles and contrasts. My favorite is one of the last photos with the profile of the woman with the sunset in the background. Thanks for the link! Katie
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