A nice interactive graphic from USA today. And the Louise at the JPdigital digest has a pointer to Poynter and an article about USA Todays interactive team

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Another event of interest to everyone involved in digital storytelling
The Department of Journalism at Uclan is about to launch MELD
MELD is an ideas-generation and development workshop bringing together journalists and interactive designers to tell stories in ways we haven’t thought of yet
Selected journalists will be paid to join new media practitioners at a five-day residential [...]

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Now you can put a voice to the name and face. Mindy McAdams has posted three 10 minute screencasts/tutorials that give you an overview of the basics of flash.
If you are asking ‘who’s Mindy McAdams’ then shame on you. When it comes to flash for journalists. she wrote the book - literally. It’s called Flash [...]

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I have been kicking around some ways of describing the different kinds of video that I come across on line. Part of me thinks that it may be an over developed need for categorisation and organisation, but those who have seen my desk know different.
The seed of the idea came from a comment on a [...]

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There is a post over at Mindy McAdams’ blog about converting Soundslides to video. The comments make for interesting reading too, especially the tips on Flash and Myspace. But the overriding question seems to be ‘why would you want to do this?’
My answer to that question is ‘you never know’.
Although Flash is getting close to [...]

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A nice page comparing the quality of video you can expect from a number of video upload/sharing sites.
You will need to have the latest version of flash on your computer to see all the examples.

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A great resource to compare video encoding for Flash. Well worth a look.

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