New Media Storytelling Weblogs

I wrote this Weblog entries for my New Media Storytelling course in Fall 2001. They may or may not reflect my current opinions, thoughts, etc. My midterm (photo gallery) or final (city guide prototype) are also available on the site.

12/7/01: Journo Me?
I honestly believe that I couldn't be happy in any profession but journalism. Or rock and roll stardom, of course.

11/26/01: Why j-schools need to change
For the first time in a long time, journalists will have to study and learn if their work connects with their readers. If it doesn't, they fail.

11/19/01: The future of broadcast
Holographic viewing is a more realistic and acceptable goal (than virtual reality) for broadcasters, whether they are from the movie or television realms of the field.

11/12/01: "Instant publishing" on that kind of a morning
The new media outlets should have been picking up on what was television's strongest advantage the morning of the Rockaway crash: eyewitnesses.

11/5/01: Tabloid Web design: SHOCKING!
The tabloids may go about their work a bit differently, but that's no excuse for poor Web design.

10/29/01: Interactivity and "The Feedroom"
Feedroom is very promising, but the viewers need room to breathe. The Internet should be under their control, not the producers.

10/22/01: Chicagotribune.com's information architecture
The site's current information architecture seems best designed to handle the normal, day-to-day Chicago life. The design was not built to handle the extraordinary times we are living in, and that is why it fails.

10/15/01: Analysis of two weblogs
The photographically oriented "What does not change" and Salon's "The In Box" are reviewed.

10/8/01: Why new media isn't new ... yet
The basis of the "digital language" has certainly been created, but it has not been realized yet.

9/30/01: How sites covered the 9/11 aftermath
Shoveling quickly is still shoveling. The Web has to become more than a library of current events if it is going to become a viable medium.