Obama Girl, JibJab, YouTube Debates Named Top Political Web Moments By Webbys
October 28, 2008
The Webby Awards today released its list of the Top Ten Most Influential Political Web Moments and it includes several Web video milestones, including JibJab’s satire of the 2004 election, Obama Girl, Senator George Allen’s “macaca” video, and the CNN YouTube debates. Read more »
NYmag.com’s ‘Where’s Rogan?’ uses Microsoft Silverlight
October 28, 2008
NYmag.com has launched a new web series, “Where’s Rogan?”, using Microsoft Silverlight. The project uses Silverlight to present an online film series with time-coded product placement - a new model for online advertising and promotion - which will trigger advertiser assets. Read more »
nytimes.com launches video in HD
October 27, 2008
NYTimes.com has relaunched video on its site in high-definition, wide-screen format and single pages for each video, optimized for SEO. Read more »
Narrated panorama: On the Trading Floor
October 25, 2008
Vikas Bajaj, who covers finance for The Times, describes how the New York Stock Exchange has changed in the age of electronic trading in this narrated panaroma. Read more »
Link TV Lets Students Edit TV News Online
October 23, 2008
Link TV has announced the launch of Know the News, a set of free educational web-based News Literacy tools focusing on international television news. Read more »
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Political Theater 2008, Seattle-style
October 21, 2008
Seattletimes.com and kuow.org did an interesting experiment during the gubernatorial debate, with three Seattle Times Political Caucus bloggers providing live video commentary online. It was streamed live online and then a best-of version was posted the next day. Read more »
New interactive video service
October 21, 2008
ved.io is a new web application that allows the creation of interactive video by synchronizing short form posts to video. Read more »
Slate redesigns
October 20, 2008
Slate has launched a very nice new redesign, featuring a cleaner, less cluttered home page and wider, easier-to-read article pages.
CJR: What is journalism?
October 19, 2008
CJR’s Ann Cooper says with the rise of bloggers and citizen journalists, the question is no longer “who is a journalist?” - the pertinent question is, “what is journalism?”
Top news sites for September 2008
October 19, 2008
Here are the top news sites for September 2008 according to Nielsen Online.