62 posts and columns on multimedia
QOTD: Multimedia Journalism
What is The Editor’s Prerogative? It’s when you take a piece of journalism and make it huge in scale and elaborate in delivery so that it is more in line with how important an editor thinks the story is than how new audiences actually want to consume it.
— Khoi Vinh, former design director of the New York Times, on “Snowfall”-style multimedia stories
Yahoo Buys Qwiki for About $50 Million (Like ATD Said)
Yep — more mobile for Marissa Mayer.Yahoo’s Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium Video Unit
How much is the Silicon Valley Internet giant willing to spend on turbocharging its video prospects?BermanBraun’s Mom.me Enters the Crowded Parenting Space, Offering “Mass With Class”
A new site aimed at “moms who happen to be parents.”Viral Video: "Attack the Block" and BoomTown Debut at SXSW
Like many a geek–and after a decade away–I’m headed to South by Southwest later this week. To get in the mood for the well-known multimedia festival in Austin, here’s one of the films making its debut this coming weekend. It’s called “Attack the Block,” and has the best tag line ever: “Inner City Versus Outer Space.” Which is just about how I am feeling about SXSW!Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains
Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.Rupert Murdoch’s Daily for iPad Debuts Feb. 2
The Daily, the iPad newspaper News Corp. was supposed to unveil a few weeks ago, has a new launch date and a new venue for its debut: Feb. 2 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.Viral Video: The British Library's Stiff Upper App
Here’s a very classy video of an app called Treasures from the British Library–from the original version of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” to Nelson’s battle plan for Trafalgar.News Byte