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Interactive Forms Give Power to Election Perspectives
November 5, 2008
The 2008 presidential race inspired a lot of innovative storytelling, including how we experienced coverage of the historic finale last night, writes Poynter’s Sara Quinn. Here’s a look at two projects that captured events in unique ways. Read more »
‘Video Your Vote’ in action
November 3, 2008
See the videos that have been submitted so far to the YouTube/PBS “Video Your Vote” project from voters around the country…
Twitter Vote Report
November 2, 2008
Twitter Vote Report is an all-volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators who have teamed up to help track voting problems on Election Day. Read more »
New way to navigate election news
November 2, 2008
TimeSpace Beta is a new map and timeline from washingtonpost.com that allows users to navigate through hundreds of photos, video, articles, tweets, posts and audio related to the national election from around the country. Read more »
Obama Girl, JibJab, YouTube Debates Named Top Political Web Moments By Webbys
October 28, 2008
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 »
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 »
Hyper-Local salary database released
October 15, 2008
The data published in a special report by the Times Herald-Record includes public employees of 132 cities, towns and villages, BOCES, school districts and universities and state and county agencies that Hudson Valley region on New York. We asked each public agency for the same information: a list of employees by name, job title and salary. Whenever possible, we labeled an employee’s gender to conduct an analysis of pay based on that attribute. There are about 39,000 records in the database. We provided a number of search options including the ability to cross reference two municipalities or school districts.
This post was submitted by Erik Gliedman.