Interesting Mobile Apps 1) Clarify — Capture, sequence and annotate screenshots to create documents that are a great alternative to screen recordings. http://www.clarify-it.com/ Available for laptop or mobile. 2) Useful reporter’s tool: Sky Pen: “Record everything you write and hear. Tap anywhere on your notes to replay the audio from that moment in time. […]
Note: A seven-hour Delta Airlines mechanical delay kept me in the Denver airport most of the day Thursday and prevented me from taking advantage of the Online News Association’s first-day conference sessions at ONA13 in Atlanta, Oct. 17-19, 2013. Hacking the Curriculum It took Northwestern’s Miranda Mulligan and Chrys Wu from The New York Times […]
In chronological order, a handful of the cool tips, tricks and advice I picked up at the Online News Association conference. 1) Cool mobile apps – audio 21 tips to being a mobile ninja: bit.ly/ninjamobile Pano apps: Photosynth and DMD Mobile GIFs: Cinemagram and Lightt “Collaborative video” (AKA: multi-view video): Streamweaver and Vyclone 2) Data Tips for data […]
If you think that there are greater possibilities for presenting a news story than with the traditional forms, then now is a great time to be a journalist with a taste for experimentation and doing things differently. A group of CU-Boulder students spent a semester experimenting with new storytelling tools and techniques. >>>
They are small enough to fasten around your ear or wear like glasses and record your surroundings non-stop. Looxcie and Google Glass are two of the more recent innovations that are stripping down cameras to the size of an index finger and smaller. This technological trend has major legal and ethical implications not just for journalists. >>>
What words or phrases would you use if asked to describe what makes a specific photograph outshine others and is popular with many viewers? A research study by CU-Boulder student Robert Denton, in cooperation with the large and popular online photography community at Pixoto.com, attempted to find some clarity in photographic rhetoric. Check out Denton’s research study. >>>
Hundreds of millions of pieces of information and data flow through social-media sites every day. If you know how to analyze it and have the right technology to do so, never-before-available insights become available into what large populations of people do, care about, think, and experience. Data scientist Scott Hendrickson will get you up to speed on social-media data in this workshop video. >>>
There’s an application that I don’t hesitate to call the Holy Grail of the Internet. Behold If This Then That, commonly known as “IFTTT.” It is a web service that creates what programmers call conditional expressions, or recipes; I call them miracles. >>>
These two recent stellar interactive infographics, on Pakistan drone deaths and guns deaths following the Sandy Hook Elementary killings, demonstrate that visualizations of data can have a lot power — no lengthy narrative needed. >>>
Many journalists are interested in the idea of experimenting with drones (a.k.a., unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs). Here’s an example of how a bit of UAV videography can add to the quality of a video project. >>>
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