Jul
27
I’m dragging around a ton of open tabs today. Here are some early highlights:
- Welcome to WSJ.com’s Andy Jordan’s Tech Diary. Newspaper video-as-column done right, with a great sense of fun. The sample video on the social power of the iPhone is a hoot. Via Mathew Ingram.
- BBC Berkshire: Flood Map. The BBC mashes up its own reports and listeners photos and videos with a Google map to produce a great piece of storytelling.
- Creative Commons for education. A new flavour of Creative Commons licence, this one to allow for free use for the classroom and education. I remain convinced CC is a better way to deal with creative content than copyright alone.
- Still photos with sound. Preliminary survey results — the raw numbers — from a study on the combination of audio and photographs, by Michelle I. Seelig of the University of Miami. In the rush to video, I suspect some newspapers may be giving short shrift to an effective storytelling tool.
- Two from the business side. Fortune magazine’s article Can the Washington Post survive? is rightly getting a lot of web comment: it’s a big and meaty. Very much shorter is this bit of bad news, from Roy Greenslade: Job ads fall to 49-year low in the States.
