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A dozen sites
I'm diggin'


1. Check this cool weather site by  the Las Vegas Sun. Make sure you see the top of the page forecast grahics.

2. Stay on top of Gustav with this site that includes radar, satellite, tracking maps, warnings and more.

3. The coolest storm tracking site I have seen in a while.

4. Vloggerheads fights back against YouTube chaos.

5. YouTomb is where videos go after they're booted off YouTube.

6. The evolution of voting in America is shown by interactive mapping.

7. The Las Vegas Sun has a crew driving to the Democratic National Convention and is filing multimedia stories along the way.

8. I have never seen anything like this amazing "Swan Lake" performance. [Flash]

9. The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen links written notes with audio. Cool for journalists and students.

10. An educator friend of mine in Lebanon reports that citizen- generated news is all the rage in Arab countries.

11. Here are photos of folks learning Soundslides in Poynter's recent seminar "Multimedia for College Educators." We'll offer this twice in 2009, in February and July.

12. This is my current home page.

All of my Diggin' sites are saved on Poynter's del.icio.us page.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Al's Morning Meeting is a compendium of ideas, edited story excerpts and other materials from a variety of Web sites, as well as original concepts and analysis. When the information comes directly from another source, it will be attributed and a link will be provided whenever possible. The column is fact-checked, but depends on the accuracy and integrity of the original sources cited. We will correct errors and inaccuracies when we become aware of them.


The Tools You Need to Do Multimedia
Before you spend a ton of money and effort buying the hardware and software you think you need to "do multimedia," sign up for this Poynter Webinar at 2 p.m. Thursday.

It will be hosted by my Poynter friend and multimedia colleague Ellyn Angelotti.

She will be giving you a shopping list of the tools you need to do online multimedia. How do you know which camera to buy? What kind of microphones work best? How much money will you have to spend to turn multimedia stories? 

Heck, the money Ellyn will help you save by not buying junk is worth the price of the Webinar!

And as a bonus, you'll be able to download our suggested shopping list and customize it for your newsroom.

Click here
to get registered. Do it right away!

Don't forget that we have lots of hands-on multimedia seminars coming up at Poynter, including seminars for one-man bands, people trying to learn about video, and a new July seminar for college educators trying to pick up multimedia skills. Take a look at the schedule and drop me a note if I can be of any help.

For these seminars I will be joined by Ellyn, Poynter's Kenny Irby and a remarkable cast of working multimedia professionals. Come learn the skills that you need to learn to do the journalism of the future.


Posted by Al Tompkins 4:57 PM January 30, 2008
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