Innovation in College Media

YouTube auto-captioning for video (Comments)

3/09/10 •

Several people have asked in the past about transcriptions/closed-captioning for video. It’s a pain in the butt, but YouTube has just rolled out a promising new time-saving feature called auto-captioning.
Like any machine-generated transcription, some words get garbled. But if you have a video that has good audio from an interview (external mics!), and there’s not [...]

Video example from boston.com (Comments)

3/09/10 •

I came across this story from the Boston Globe about an MIT student whos inventing a new type of wheelchair that is more usable in less wheelchair-accessible areas. The story itself is inspiring, the interactive graphic is interesting, but the video really tells the story of how it works, and illustrates some of the advantages [...]

Blogging specific links (Comments)

3/08/10 •

Here are a few links to some “meta” discussion specifically about blogging – blogs about blogs – that I’ve come across recently. And all were recommended by one blogger.
They contain some excellent advice and tips if you are interested in the topic, or looking for ways to improve your own blogging skills.
Remarkablogger
Blog for Profit
Chris Garrett [...]

Tagging & subcategories: organizing online content (Comments)

3/04/10 •

A major problem with any news site is the search engine. If users have troubles locating a specific story that isn’t a few clicks away, chances are they won’t revisit your site.
So what’s the best way to please your visitors who want to find that story that never appeared on the front page? The answer [...]

links for 2010-03-04 (Comments)

3/04/10 •

Not So Private Professors – Inside Higher Ed
“Colleges have for years been warning students to keep their Facebook and Myspace pages free of embarrassing photos or writings, but a more recent phenomenon is the emergence of concrete policies governing how faculty and other employees use social media.”
(tags: facebook privacy education socialmedia highered socialnetworking)

:: AppMakr
Inexpensive app [...]

Inside Vandy pushes multimedia packages (Comments)

3/02/10 •

Vanderbilt’s InsideVandy has been pushing the envelope recently in their online offerings. While they’ve been doing multimedia for a while, they are starting to package their efforts into more user-friendly experiences.
Check out these attractive packages: A City Guide, with restaurant reviews and an interactive map; a history of housing package with 360 panorama photographs from [...]