Recent multimedia examples

We have 48 records in the Multimedia Examples database right now. I thought I’d pull a couple out and showcase them on the front page. If you have an example you’d like to submit, do so here.

Timeline-ness

The Washington Square News at NYU published a timeline of their coverage of a student council scandal using Simile, a timeline program created by some students at MIT. Simile uses xml files to create the sliding timeline. It’s a bit complicated, so if you’re not up on xml and coding, you can do something similar with xtimeline This is a good way to recover some of your reporting on an ongoing scandal without linking to each previous archived story in new story updates. Just add the stories to the timeline, and put the link to the timeline into each subsequent story.

Election interactive

The Marquette Tribune created an interactive Flash graphic of the presidential campaign, with a variety of interesting features. Mouse over the map, and it shows primary results from each state. Mouse over the names below the candidate photos and you get a window with information about the candidates.

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