7 Ways to Make News Sites More Social. Vadim Lavrusik is a digital media student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He is @lavrusik on Twitter and blogs at Lavrusik.com. Journalism is supposed to be a conversation, but often news websites don’t provide the tools for that conversation to take place. Implementing social media tools and allowing readers to connect to the organization through Twitter, Facebook and other networks, can make it easier for users to engage with the news content and their community members.
However, some fundamental tools that allow readers to share content through social media are not being utilized. The Internet as News Central. In yet another sign that news readers are dropping print for digital, the Internet has now surpassed all media except television as a news source, according to consumers surveyed in December 2008 by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
In December 2008, 40% of respondents said they got most of their news about national and international issues from the Internet, up from just 24% in September 2007. Pew said it was the first time since it started surveying that consumers relied more on the Internet for news than on newspapers. Television was still the main source for national and international news, at 70%. Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Viewing a LOT of Images Ef. Expression Blend and Design : Deep Zoom Developer Resources. Since we released Deep Zoom Composer a while ago at MIX, we relied extensively on all of you to both create cool things using it as well as suggest new features for subsequent releases.
Another major area that many of you have helped us with is documenting some of the cool things that you all have done with Deep Zoom. In this post, I’ll try to point out some of the cool documentation to help you out in your deep zoom quest: Working with Collections & Deep Zoom Primer Jaime Rodriguez provides two great overviews on how Deep Zoom works and how you can manipulate the collections in greater detail. A Deep Zoom Blog Lutz Gerhard is one of the people responsible for Deep Zoom in Silverlight, and his blog provides valuable tips and tricks to the common asks people have made. Project Silverlight Wilfred Pinto has a lot of great examples dissecting various requests such as hit-testing on images, etc.