Posted by Steve Mullis on May 13, 2008, 10:48 AM in personal
I’m putting this blog in a holding pattern until next week or so while I handle some post-graduation duties, personal time and an all-around break.
Be back in a week, give or take.
p.s. Great online uses of Twitter and Facebook on multiple ongoing stories, most notably the Myanmar aftermath, the earthquake in China and the wildfires in Central Florida. Check them out.
Related LinksIf you haven’t seen the ‘Battle of Kruger’ yet take the eight minutes to watch it. It’s quite possibly the best act of nature caught on video.
The eyewitness video was so vivid and full of drama that National Geographic made an entire documentary about it. You have to watch the full thing to understand how [...]
With the death toll in Myanmar rising following the cyclone that devastated the area, the NY Times used its blog, ‘The Lede’, to put out the call for help covering the disaster. They asked for first-hand accounts, photos and even have a submission form for video.
Twelve hours later they had vivid descriptions of the devastation [...]
As if the last few days could not get any better, what with graduation, good times with family and friends, checks from the IRS and few other pieces of greatness that I am not allowed to mention just yet, I woke up to check this out.
I am officially the #1 ‘Steve Mullis’ according to Google. [...]
You know the geek demographic is taking over when they are starting to make holidays out of Web technologies. I for one welcome our new geeky overlords and look forward to toiling away in their underground server rooms. But I digress.
According to Daniel Scocco over at Daily Blog Tips today is indeed RSS Awareness Day. [...]
The Cougar Ace was a car transport ship that was en route from Japan to Vancouver, British Columbia, Tacoma, Washington, and Port Hueneme, California, with a cargo of 4,812 Mazda vehicles. On the way a malfunction caused ballast water to dump out and the ship listed 60 degrees putting both crew and cargo in danger.
Since [...]
Posted by Steve Mullis on April 30, 2008, 9:30 PM in journalism, social networking, video
Disturbingly accurate and very funny. Via British sketch comedy collective Idiots of Ants.
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Due to my previous comment issue and the theme I was using not being supported any more, I decided to redecorate. Plus, being that I am talking about online journalism and the “future” of the medium, I thought it fitting that I have a more streamlined, futuristic theme. I’m quite pleased with it actually, though [...]
I’ve been incredibly impressed with the online presence of the Las Vegas Sun. There’s something about the site that just breathes and feels welcoming. One area where they are shining is their multimedia offerings. Like I mentioned in a post yesterday, they include a multimedia link as an integral part of their navigation.
There it is, [...]
Despite what Craig Ferguson says, the NYTimes is still leading the charge in many areas of journalism, most notably in the online world. The Times has been continually improving their online user experience and things seem to have really moved ahead since they took down their pay wall, something that all newspapers should do right [...]
Posted by Steve Mullis on April 28, 2008, 7:20 PM in journalism, technology, web design
In perusing several newspaper Web sites I noticed an oddity. Many sites, though I won’t mention any names, did not have a ‘multimedia/interactive/data” tab as part of their navigation. For most of them it was shoved halfway down the page, sometimes even several scrolls below the main content. This is a travesty at this stage [...]
From Ryan Sholin’s post on ‘10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head’:
J-schools can either play a critical role in training the next generation of journalists, or they can fade into irrelevancy. Teach multimedia, interactivity and data, or watch your students become frustrated and puzzled as they [...]
Right now newspapers use a variety of tools to update their Web sites. Some use proprietary content-management systems similar to Wordpress or MoveableType, while others maintain simple, yet highly customizable HTML pages. Different sized organizations are still getting their online legs and figuring out what works best for them.
None of these systems have been perfected [...]
Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Reps. Artur Davis, D-Ala., and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” — David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Hillary Rodham Clinton; Roger Mudd, author of a book on [...]
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