OK - these German developers/designers get it when it comes to illustrating our digital media future. This is the new face of convergence - it is called Enkin.
Placemarks that show up in real time, intuitive visual interfaces, live location data . . . I thought I was pretty well spoiled using a Garmin 250w GSP to drive to Toronto and back this week, but these guys have me convinced that I should wait for a 3G phone that will soon do all that and even more useful things for helping me find my way around world cities.
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- Graphic on social media: The Conversation Prism
- Photos from India newspaper design workshop
- Off to India and Egypt to train journalists in visual editing
- Behind The Scenes Photos of Obama Watching Election Results
- How Do I Preserve Newsprint for Archive or Display?
- Obama Pages One: International newspapers and Oprah Winfrey
- Best front pages from US election
- Video: Obama wins in election graphics on news Web sites
- Chicago map: Election Day tour of Grant Park and Obama Presidential Rally
- Live video from Grant Park - courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times
- Robb’s Election Day sing-a-long
- Will advertising plunge kill newspapers in the U.S?
- Super-thin e-reader could deliver next edition of your newspaper, book or musical score
- Comedy, newspaper clout and Web video of Gov. Sarah Palin
- UK: Teaching the Principles of Journalism with David Dunkley Gyimah
- Schedule: Master Classes for Romanian Editors-in-Chief
- Video: Readers talk about Chicago Tribune redesign
- Camp VJ: Interview tips from Chicago’s Carol Marin
- VIDEO from Las Vegas - Svetlana Maximchenko, Editor-in-Chief of Akzia
- Video Obit: Death of a small-town newspaper
- VIDEO: Interview with Charles Apple
- CampVJ adds two video instructors to lead Chicago classes
- SND Las Vegas report: Embracing the social narrative
- Visual analysis of Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech
- What did Gov. Sarah Palin actually say in convention speech?
- Robb’s flight plans for fall 2008
- Visual analysis of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech
- Newspaper worker: Do you have an “Escape Plan?”
- What video editing software should I buy?
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Robb Montgomery is the CEO of Visual Editors and an independent consultant.
He has worked as a visual editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and partners with media groups and journalism associations in more than 16 countries to design training curriculum for video journalism, newspaper design and multimedia reporting.
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