Good reads for 06.16.07

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Melissa Worden

>> Angela Grant writes about the byline strike by the Baltimore Sun photographers this week. Deep sigh. Change is stressful and uncomfortable for everyone. But why can’t we just all get along?

Check out the comments about the strike on MultimediaShooter; some good discussion over there.

>> Are we too hung up on non-linear storytelling? asks Paul Bradshaw in response to Nora Paul and Laura Ruel’s navigating slide show study. First thought: GASP! Second thought: I want to see more research on this topic before agreeing.

>> Podcast wins first-ever Emmy. KING5.com and NWCN.com received an Advanced Media Emmy Award for a video podcast called “Drive,” according to LostRemote.

>> The iPhone: “It could very well mean that all of our best laid plans to build great newspaper.com sites get laid to waste, or at least we’ll need to realign our priorities,” says Howard Owens. I agree; this baby could be a first iteration of an e-paper.

>> You should be on Facebook, says Owens. Well, OK. I’ll give it a try.

>> Prosumer. “Mark this word in your mental diaries,” says Duncan Riley of TechCrunch. “The word is a combination of producer and consumer that perfectly describe the millions of participants in the Web 2.0 revolution.”

>> “The BBC is to release a series of behind-the-scenes videos detailing how it compiles its news packages,” reports Journalism.co.uk. “Future video updates, (BBC reporter Ben) Hammersley added, will cover how the corporation finds people to interview, gets to locations in foreign cities and pieces its TV and radio packages together.” Nice bonus for us online journalists looking for tips, but I’m still not convinced the public will care.

Comments

One Response to “Good reads for 06.16.07”

Patrick Beeson on June 18th, 2007 7:34 am

I agree; this baby could be a first iteration of an e-paper.

I don’t know if I’d take it that far.

First, you’ll have to wait a few years for the early adopters to spread the virus to mainstream folks.

Next the wireless network will need to catch up with their data plans (or wifi will need to become more prevalent).

And it’s good to remember that Safari is still Safari on the iPhone. Newspaper.com will be seen as it is on the full screen (if your newspaper.com works in Safari, as many don’t).

I do think the current wave of simple, easy-to-view site designs will help with reading on the iPhone.