From the Bhimbetka cave paintings to graphic novels, we have expressed ourselves visually through narrative. Storyboarding your ideas – be it for products, web page design, or actual stories – is an essential and natural tool of communication.
‘m a whiz at Photoshop and am getting to the expert level on Illustrator. But there is one skill that still eludes me: sketching. In digital image editing, you’ve got all the tools you need to basically cheat a drawing – filters, layers, rulers, grids, opacity. You need not ever learn how to wield an HB pencil to create, like me.
After listening to a TED Talk by Jane McGonigal I finally found the inspiration to write down what I think a healthy community website should look like.
The communities I participate in are HItRecord and BlogHer. These communities work.
[You could count Facebook and Twitter on there, but I would categorize those as more social networking, and [...]
I get easily overwhelmed when I start a project. There’s so much information to digest, so many ideas to process, pages to look at, that I often jump out of my chair and slap on my iPod to release some stress through raucous dancing in the living room. Yep, I’m that upstairs neighbor stomping all [...]
This is in essence my journalistic philosophy, what I learned from my masters at the UNR Reynolds School of Journalism, and a large part of my thesis. Please enjoy and tell me what you think!
Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming a potential minefield for tricksters and virtual grifters. So, my dear padawans, please take these following tips to heart when faced (or Facebooked) with a deal you just can’t resist.
Or “dot at” or “period at”…whatever.
I see this cropping up all over Twitter and Google search for the answer was a little difficult as the results are just a bunch of .@ replies!
Finally I found an article written by Michael Calore at WebMonkey which explained the limitations of the @ reply:
This means that even if [...]
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I was a witness to the PJs at the Reynolds School of Journalism. I was so glad of the opportunity to have someone as successful and prolific as Erin speak to J-school students and especially professors about new media, getting personal, and still being a good storyteller.
Erin Kotecki Vest + Jeff [...]
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Sam sent me a link to this interesting map using geotags with references to Sex, Allah, Hindu, Buddha, and Jesus.
My concern is that the geotagged places may not have been done by locals, but by tourists. This map seems to imply that these tags reflect local values and beliefs. But what [...]
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I hate treadmills. The name just makes me think of gerbils’ futile efforts. I saw a commercial today for the NordicTrack X7I which let’s you program your run based on a geographical areas terrain using Google Maps. You can even see yourself running around the map – they call it progress, I still [...]
Tool Time – Apps to help your research
