You may have noticed some of the Telegraph's Web sites were down for a time this afternoon. Actually 2 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. is more than 'a time' but let's not quibble.
The problem was due to an honest attempt by one of our hosting providers to upgrade some of the servers that host our blogs, [...]
We have a new and ambitious multimedia project going live on the site on Sunday. Produced by Telegraph staff photographer Stanton Paddock, it is a multi-part audio slideshow essay looking at the Lukas Community in Wilton, NH.
A Meaningful Way of Life
The community is a home for developmentally disabled adults, and Paddock spent parts of several [...]
It is becoming a fact of life at newspapers: good reporters and editors are still journalism gold but more and more often it is programmers who are the key to effectively delivering the news online.
Technology obviously has always been part of the online news experience. Someone has to create the content management system, code the [...]
I had not expected to find a topical use for this new mapping service so quickly - but today's ice storm did present an opportunity.
This is a very incomplete example (and is not being actively updated) but does show how maps can be more useful than just a text story in some situations.
Here is an [...]
Ok - maybe fun is not the right word in all cases, but for Web publishers, some of the new tools being produced certainly are handy.
The latest on the street - Atlas makes it really easy to create a Google Map, specify some options, and then easily copy-paste the code directly into any Web page.
This [...]
An interesting blogologue (OK - it is a made up word, how do you describe a discussion that spans multiple blogs and comments?) made the rounds today concerning multimedia storytelling.
For background see: I’m bored with Soundslides, Banish boring slideshows, Can you get me a Soundslide of that?, and Slideshows can plug the Video Gap.
The headlines [...]