Technology
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
hardware
build
wusa9
Over the past decade, a lively debate has emerged around questions of how best to assess the rising impact of social issue documentaries. In a new report, Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact, Center for Social Media (CSM) Fellows Jessica Clark and Barbara Abrash examine the state of the debate through the lens of six in-depth case studies of high-impact documentaries.
Center for Social Media at American University
Innovations In News
The gut-wrenching images that emerged after a tornado struck Joplin, Mo. this week were made even more profound by digital and online storytelling techniques. The combination of traditional photography and digital technology put viewers inside the wreckage and show just how much devastation was caused to the area. In what has now become a fixture in online coverage, this interactive satellite image shows the city before and after Sunday’s tornado. This interactive, 360-degree panoramic image shows the damage from the ground level.
Virtual Private Clouds (VPC’s) let users carve out sections of an IaaS provider’s public cloud infrastructure and manage it as though it were their…
building43
What does a great college newspaper site look like? :: 10,000 Wo
The best college newspaper websites have a combination of integrated print stories, online only features, great site design, technical skill and most importantly the incorporation of unique multimedia elements. Here are some great examples from around the US: What it lacks in cohesive organization, InsideVandy makes up for in its massive amounts of content. Well-written print stories take residence next to video, podcasts and slideshows.
geekTips - Computer Tips and Information Technology News
iPhone is probably the most well-known smartphone on the planet, and it can do a lot more than people commonly think. Sure, it can play some cute little games and browse the web, but that’s just...Deep Jive Interests
Looks like Google’s eying Groupon for a bajillion dollars . Its interesting to keep Groupon in perspective of all the other companies its acquired this year (around 25), and the fact that most (if not all) of those other companies, and companies past, really have to do with acquiring technologies or people to create technologies to power algorithms … while Groupon is a company whose business model necessitates some form of customer service and regular engagement with vendors. Almost makes you wonder how local businesses will react when they’re told to voice their complaints on forums to essentially … well, help themselves if they have problems , and to send in emails for “customer service” that never gets replies . One could go on at length with another meta-blogging post about what blogging is or is not; however, for Nick Gawker to say that he is moving “beyond” blogging is either a bit of arrogance or a touch of grandstanding or, more likely, a bit of both.
Welcome to the Adobe Design Center. Explore feature stories, get inspired by fellow designers, and find out more about your favorite Adobe® Creative Suite® software, including Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and InDesign®, as well as other creative tools like Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and Muse (code name).
Design Center
Muse beta 6.0.2 (Feb 23) Muse (codename) enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code.
Adobe's labs for beta tests
The new True Blood Season 2 Blu-ray Disc has a social networking feature that fans of the HBO series can really sink their teeth into: automatic updates to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Described as the most extensive Facebook-linking feature in a Blu-ray Disc so far, the True Blood Live Feed sends updates to Facebook and Twitter as viewers watch the episodes. Each of the 12 episodes has at least eight scenes that can be posted to Facebook, too, direct from the discs. One of HBO's most popular series, True Blood averaged 5 million viewers per first-run episode. The tale of vampires and other supernatural happenings in the Louisiana bayou has more than 1.5 million friends on Facebook, which now has a countdown to the June 13 third-season premiere.
'True Blood' hits social networks - USATODAY.com