Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Creating interactive [...]

1. Update your résumé It’s always good to keep it up-to-date, of course, so this is the perfect time. Update your LinkedIn profile, too, and add people you know. Don’t be shy about recommending someone else’s work, either. You’re on furlough — grab those good-karma points. Now that you have a fresh and shiny résumé, [...]

Tuesday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama was utopia for geeks. Sure, it was streaming online, but that’s been done since President Bill Clinton’s 1997 inauguration. (I know my inauguration trivia.) And it was big on Twitter, of course. But beyond that: whitehouse.gov was relaunched before the oath of office was stumbled over. See what the [...]

The Indy Star will show you 911 calls in real time. Ah! I must figure out how to do this! My new goal is to create at least one multimedia project a week. Might be for work, might not, but this 911 project is on my long-term list.

For Memorial Day, several newspapers put together multimedia presentations: • Colorado’s Fallen: “They were called to serve. Young Coloradans with bright visions of the future left family and friends for a distant battlefield. But bullets and roadside bombs do not spare the dreamers.” Video interviews and family photos. Denver Post • Making it home: “After [...]