In the name of design I started my practical (home) exam in Mulitmedia-journalism a Tuesday morning in December. Inspired over the years by a number of slick and shining splash-screens, I knew that I wanted to design a cool hoover (vacuum cleaner) illustration.
Our assignment was to design a website and fill with content for the [...]
Benjamin Kuhn’s Newsware is an interesting concept that does look interesting. In todays world of citizen journalism, being mobile is one of the most important features. One reporter is supposed to write an article and record both usable video and audio. Therefore the less hassle the equipment is the easier it will be to [...]
Your next dictionary of choice? VisuWords - Visualizing words in a visual online graphical dictionary. Linking words together finding similar meaning, or suitable verbs or nouns that are connected to the word you chose to lookup.
VisuWords uses an open source database called WordNet. I previously was a fan of dict.org, however I do like visualization [...]
Although there are a great deal of indications that do point in the direction that some of the traditional journalism will die, Check out Wayne Smallman’s The death of the professional photojournalist?, I believe traditional journalism will survive parallel to the amateur journalist (Work for Yahoo & Reuters Without a Salary).
I have previously thought about [...]
Some comments to my article (Laptops NOT a Microsoft Bribe?) on Digg.com made me realize that I should be a little more clear of where I stand on the issue.
Firstly Credibility
If you knew a travel operator had sponsored some journalists writing a merry story or review about a rather unknown holiday beach somewhere half around [...]