Entries from February 2008
Ledes in online stories
Briefs and long stories part of the online mix. See CNN.com.
Stories abbreviated into “blurbs.” See DenverPost.com.
New formats, cell delivery demand brevity.
IM trends & shorthand - ADBB. See instant messaging shorthand list.
More information, shorter attention spans
Good ledes
Use active verbs, fewer words.
Contain Who, What, When, Where, Why, How and So What?
Are a condensed version of the story.
Can […]
Categories: Newsroom '08
Web 2.0
For Feb. 29, please submit a 150-200 500 word story, news item or blog posting to the Boulder edition of YourHub.com. Registration is required. We will review the Your Hub postings. Feel free to replicate/use one of your two weekly posts to your blogger.com blog, however you must also post to your blog about […]
Categories: Newsroom '08
Telling a story
Good audio slide shows tell a story. Audio helps set the mood, and background sound and narrative add a web-friendly dimension.
This Denver Post slide show on the Stock Show gave Kathryn Osler a venue to show more than the single image that appeared in print. The slide show was built in SoundSlides.
For […]
Categories: Newsroom '08
Slide shows
A great slide show with audio titled “Venus Rising” was produced by the New York Times about seven years ago using iMovie. This week we’ll build a simple slide show using SlideShowPro Director. (iMovie comes free with Macs. I’m not aware of an iMovie equivalent for PC’s. Let me know if you find […]
Categories: Newsroom '08
Basic HTML page
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h3> A header</h3>
<p>This tag starts the paragraph, usually a closing </p> is not needed.
<p>This is the next paragraph, and <b>text can be bold </b> and <strong> bold in the XHTML version <strong> <br><br>
<i>Text can be italic </i> and <em> italic in the XHTML version</em>
<p><a href=”http:/www.cnn.com”>This tag is an anchor […]
Categories: Newsroom '08