http://blog.jeremyrue.com A blog on multimedia training in the journalism industry Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:15:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Clay Felker died to day. The pioneer of the print magazine was immoralized by the New York Times in one of their classic obituary style articles, written in the only way the NY Times knows how. But, what fascinated me the most when reading about Felker's life, was his persistence during ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/07/01/clay-felker-testimate-to-new-media/ Okay, I feel like I have been waiting a very long time for this. And now it finally has happened. Someone has built a completely Web-based Flash application over at http://sproutbuilder.com. This is a momentous occasion for me. I feel like over the last two years, I have been wishing for ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/05/19/sprout-is-flash-for-everyone-else/ OK, here is a little tidbit a few people might not know about me. Back in my first year of college, I was a computer science major. Then, journalism stepped in the way. I was taking photos for the campus newspaper part-time, which seemed like a whole lot more fun than ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/04/08/programming-for-the-iphone-what-app-do-you-want/ Over the last few months I've been listening to podcasts during my morning and evening commutes. I've never been much of a podcast listener, but now that I have a 45 minute commute via BART train, I've turned into an avid listener, even an obsessed fan. I can't leave home ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/03/31/why-arent-podcasts-more-popular/ Apparently a new feature from diet.com is making the rounds and becoming quite popular. The latest is that you can text message the name of a popular restaurant followed by a menu item to "D-I-E-T-1" or 34381, and it will return all of the nutritional facts of that item. News ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/03/01/dietcom-brings-calorie-info-to-your-mobile-phone/ The New York Times Research and Development Lab have come out with a really cool idea for getting the newspaper right on your mobile phone. They developed a product using hacked Radio Frequency Identification chips (RFID) whereby you can transfer data to your cell phone seamlessly. The idea, once it's fully ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/02/26/ny-times-has-got-the-right-idea/ This should be really exciting. I know Brian Storm from last summer when he worked with us at a Carnegie - Knight funded organization called News21. I like Brian because he is a visionary. He is not one of the ones trying to "catch up" but rather he is helping to ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/02/23/mediastorm-announces-its-own-multimedia-workshop/ The Guardian reported recently that the BBC will be making its iPlayer software available on the iPhone and iPod Touch in the coming weeks. Many blogs/rumor sites are reporting that this is undoubtedly linked to Apple announcing its Software Development Kit (SDK) release at the end of February. The iPlayer is ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/02/22/it-begins-who-will-be-left-out-of-the-mobile-revolution/ I had a great conversation over lunch today with Paul Grabowicz, the director of new media at the graduate school of journalism, UC Berkeley. We talked about why media organizations simply cannot demand a premium for their online ads, no matter how many unique viewers come to their sites. Our ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/02/20/why-cant-news-demand-a-premium-from-online-advertising/ http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/rji-adobe-air-competition/stories/10000-idea/index.php (Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and partner Adobe Systems are giving $10,000 to come up with new technologies) This link should say it all. In a world increasingly dominated by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and even things as simple as blogs, the methods by which young people communicate, have gone completely digital. In a ... http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/02/19/why-j-students-need-to-learn-programming/