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Category Archives: visual communication
Google Earth and News: Make Your Own Street Views (and More)
March 31, 2009 – 7:05 am
The Flatirons of Boulder, CO, as rendered by Google Earth. (Image via Wikipedia)
Recently Frank Taylor blogged about a cool Google Earth trick that could be an intriguing visual online news tool: homemade street views.
The example he cites is from Taiwan, where developer Steven Ho lives. Taylor wrote:
“[Ho] has been waiting for signs Google would bring [...]
MediaCloud: Tracking How Stories Spread
March 16, 2009 – 9:33 pm
Last week, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud, an intriguing tool that could help researches and others understand how stories spread through mainstream media and blogs.
According to Nieman Lab, “Media Cloud is a massive data set of news — compiled from newspapers, other established news organizations, and blogs — and a [...]
Windy Citizen Uses Cool Tools to Cover Blagojevich
December 10, 2008 – 12:04 pm
As the ripples spread from Chicago’s latest corruption drama, the community news site Windy Citizen is trying some innovative, fun approaches to online coverage and commentary. They did this using free online tools that anyone can use.
Here’s what one of these tools can create:
More about what Windy Citizen is doing on this front…
Fun interactive visual tools: Why should journalists care?
December 9, 2008 – 12:10 pm
Last week I wrote a lot about various interactive visual tools that can help people connect differently or more deeply with news and information. This was for a session I led at a Knight Digital Media Center seminar for the leaders of the News21 project.
Yeah, so what? Why should journalists and news organizations care about [...]
What could news look like? Cool visual tools
December 5, 2008 – 12:48 am
A picture is worth 10,000 words… especially if you can play with it! This week I’m in Los Angeles, where I’ll be leading a group presentation on online interactive and visual tools that can make news, stories, and context more vivid and compelling than ever. Also presenting are:
Mark S. Luckie, the multimedia journalist behind [...]
Silobreaker: Making meaning out of news via the semantic web
December 5, 2008 – 12:27 am
From the perspective of people who need news, the real point of the news isn’t merely to discover what’s happening. Rather, it is about discerning what it all might mean — especially, to YOU!
And in an age of information overload, the challenge for journalists is no longer just to provide more news content. Rather, our [...]
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