Multimedia training and visual journalism
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BERLIN: How to travel with an iPad will be a real nightmare unless you have clothes with bigger pockets.
At first I laughed when I saw the photo ad for the 22-pocket travel vest with the silly iPad photo pasted in . . . but I have come around now.
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BERLIN: Check out this poster designed by the promoters of my workshop this week.
I am producing a one-day “Writing for the Web” course at KircherBurkhardt Akademie on 28 January and a couple of weeks ago they asked me to imagine the title of the talk as a movie name.
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Haiti: Forget 3D TV hype for a moment and look what Google has done with 3D pictures here to aid in the rescue efforts in Haiti.
UPDATE: Google is also using their mapmaker tool to coordinate info on a master map of Haiti.
Google Earth and mapmaker used to help relief workers
Google clearly knows the power of the image and ordered post-earthquake imagery from GeoEye to give a highly-detailed 3D image of the disaster scenes. On their Web site, Google says that the data and images will be updated continuously.
Continue reading ‘Haiti: Visual data helps relief workers see hardest hit areas’
U.K.: Tour this ginormous photo of a snow-blanketed Britain produced by NASA (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.)
Displaying really big photos in really small places (Like a blog or a mobile phone screen) is a powerful story tool in today’s data-driven environment.
Continue reading ‘Giant space photo reveals snow smothering Britain’
This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
Continue reading ‘Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can’
Last week I filmed an interview with Ally Palmer in Edinburgh.
I went to bonnie Scotland to film scenes for the documentary film “Breaking the News” and to unwind and unplug from my multimedia world tour to newsrooms and classrooms in many countries.
I started editing the Palmer interview on the plane ride from Frankfurt to Chicago and will post a VizEds exclusive excerpt soon.
Continue reading ‘Ally Palmer, ‘Breaking the News’ and the future of journalism’
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