Tooting my own horn
Posted on August 8, 2007
I finally created a portfolio page, if anyone wants to take a peek.
The WordPress app has a quirk and won’t let me embed .swfs, so you might run into a dead link. But I’m working on fixing that.
Speaking of video …
Posted on June 5, 2007
I just realized I hadn’t blogged about this before. Silly me.
I’ve been up to my eyebrows in work the past couple months. And one of my major projects was working with Dayport to create a new video player for heraldtribune.com.
Other New York Times Regional Media Group papers are using Brightcove, a smart application to be sure. But one advantage this company gives us is that it integrates nicely with our content management system Publicus. And we custom-built a player to our specifications.
A couple of features I love:
>> Embed code for bloggers
>> Videos sorted by content
>> Related stories box will bring in both video and text content
>> Click the “latest headlines” button in the screen on the right side and you’ll get a list text headlines (I don’t know how much this is used, but I think it’s nice as a reader to move between media.)
Herald-Tribune Media Group includes the print paper, heraldtribune.com, and SNN News 6 — a 24-hour cable news channel. So we’re quite lucky to have a lot of short video reports without much extra work (just the Web posting production time). This will give us time, hopefully, to start producing some online-only content.
EPpy awards
Posted on May 1, 2007
Hot dog! I should go on vacation more often!
While away, I found out HeraldTribune.com is a finalist for two 2007 EPpy Awards:
>> Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
>> Best News Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors
Lucas Grindley, content manager at HeraldTribune.com, wrote some great summaries of some projects we worked on last year that may have contributed to our receiving the honors:
>> News First breaking news blog
>> Sept. 11 coverage — The terrorists who lived among us
>> Herald-Tribune’s new digs (as an architecture graduate, I particularly enjoyed producing this project)
I see a celebrity
Posted on April 13, 2007
Sarasota is celebrating movies — and their stars — during a 10-day extravaganza — the ninth annual Sarasota Film Festival.
HeraldTribune.com has put together a page of blogs, video podcasts, photos and stories as we cover the parties and presentations (DotCom features editor Jackie Luper heads the efforts).
There’s been a lot of talk from many bloggers about photographer- and reporter-generated video. But interestingly in this case, the print page designers (from the Features section) have taken a keen interest in producing the video podcasts for this package (they tried it for the first time last year, and it was quite a success).
Since we have a 24-hour cable news TV station in house (SNN News 6), we get a lot of video coverage produced firstly for TV. I think the clips the designers create compliment our TV clips by being more “raw” (ie, no talking head with a stick mic) and hopefully giving the reader a sense of place.
A benefit of having a film festival in town are the celebrity sightings. Producers, directors and stars, such as Edward Norton, Dominic Chianese, Steve Buscemi, and Marcia Gay Harden are here this week, so I put together an interactive “celebrity sightings” map, using Atlas maps, which I’ve previously written about.
It’s a fun experiment (I seeded it with some popular locales) — I just hope people will use it!
Peeps show
Posted on April 7, 2007
I have to share this creative, funny, reader-interactive photo gallery from The Washington Post’s first-ever Peeps Diorama Contest. (I think “Peeping Peeps” is the funniest.)
The story has the artists’ comments; I’d love it if the interactive had included audio clips of them describing their work. It looks like this was produced for print and then pulled together for the Web.
Again, perhaps the best part is that washingtonpost.com dares to put this stuff in their main display spot on the front. It’s right next to their lead headline: McCain to Bet ‘08 Bid on Need for Victory in Iraq. Hm. I wonder which one will get more page views? ;)
We did a Peeps audio slideshow of our own at heraldtribune.com last week, where two Peeps joust in a microwave. Very, very silly, but it was fun and quick to produce. Self-critique: Next time we have a project like this (and the necessary equipment), we should use video to tell the story.
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