The jurors were from news organization’s prized audience demographic: 18-35s. Students in my COM466 Digital Journalism class picked these stories as “best practices” examples in multimedia storytelling.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
On Memes and Sources, and A Tip For Presenters
Am I the only person who grumbles when presenters (or writers) make interesting claims but provide no source/evidence?
In Conversation is the New Attention, Christopher Fahey (@ChrisFahey) and Timothy Meany (@TimothyMeany) argue that “public speaking technology” can and should be improved because conferences are broken. What do they mean by “public speaking technology”?
(a) gathering people in a room, (b) giving the speaker(s) a microphone and a projector, and (c) allowing the audience to ask questions at the end.
This is what I call “sage on a stage” and it is an age-old conference format with a technological supplement, the projector. And criticism of that format, at least for “learning”, is a century-old [1]:
WordPress DB Troubles
Update 4.10 pm: WordPress support said they didn’t see anything that would have caused this to happen. The system does not log changes, so there is no way to determine how it happened. It is possible that I left Firefox open Monday night when I left lab, but the blog that was “up” was the course blog. Now I get to “decategorize” a bunch of posts.
I idly wondered why WiredPen.com (a “paid” service on WordPress.com) did not show up in My Blogs dropdown this morning, but I was more intent on writing a post than thinking about mechanics.
That was a mistake.
Eventually, I looked at the dashboard and realized that all posts since March 11 have been modified: Continue reading
Tips For Enhancing Recorded Interviews Using Audacity
We’ve all had it happen : the money quote from our interviewee is marred by the subject’s voice trailing off at the end of the sentence. Or someone coughs! What can we do?
Audacity, the cross-platform audio editor of choice, makes it easy to boost the amplification of a quiet voice or edit out that annoying cough.
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Mixing Media: Social Movements and Popular Culture
“When pop music meets politics, the results are often thrilling, sometimes life-changing and never simple,” writes Dorian Lynskey, a music writer for the Guardian. His book, 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, tracks “33 songs that span seven decades and four continents.”
Lynskey begins with Billy Holiday (Strange Fruit, 1939) and ends with Green Day (American Idiot, 2008). Although he features 33 songs, in the appendix he recommends an additional 100 protest songs. You can see the list of 33 (table of contents) and 100 (appendix) at 33 Revolutions per Minute on Amazon.
