The Register: Microsoft bans all plugins from touchable IE10
Friday, 16 September 2011, 16:57
"Windows 8 will include a version of Internet Explorer 10 that uses Microsoft's "Metro" touch interface, and this new-age browser will not allow plugins – at all. The move is yet another blow to Adobe Flash, which is famously bann…
Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 17:32
Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.
Punkchip: Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 17:32
Interesting demonstration of rebuilding a Guardian interactive originally built in Flash using only CSS.
ReadWriteWeb: Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool "Adobe Edge"
Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 11:20
"Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash. Aimed to coexist with Adobe Flash, not replace it, the We…
@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
New York Times: Death of Osama Bin Laden: How Significant a Moment?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 15:36
Ingenious interactive captures and visualises reader sentiment: "We asked readers the following questions: Was his death significant in our war against terror? And do you have a negative or positive view of this event? Readers — 13,864 of them â…
Online Journalism Blog: Matt Wells on The Guardian’s interactive protests Twitter map
Friday, 25 February 2011, 12:12
"It’s powered by a Google spreadsheet – so it’s really easy to add new people and to attach them to particular countries or search terms."
CJR: Interactivity on a Budget
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:59
"How several smaller newsrooms dealt with election data. … It would be unfair, though, to only focus on heavy-hitting sites that have dedicated interactive staff for such time-consuming projects. Across the country, smaller-circulation newspapers had to make the same decisions about how to visualize the data coming in on Election Night, but they had to make those decisions with far fewer resources. I believe the Times newsroom has at least two dozen people working full time on interactive projects; many smaller papers might be lucky to have a handful of people who know Flash."
New York Times: Interactive Feature: Where Tea Party Candidates Are Running
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 10:58
Nice map-based navigation for lists of candidates and details about them, their districts, and their races.
Press Gazette: Property Week launches first interactive magazine
Friday, 5 February 2010, 13:49
"… Ceros … page-turning technology … multimedia … Flash … permanent editor … Four editions of the free interactive magazine will be published this year and emailed to Property Week’s quarterly global edition and daily newsletter subscribers." Erm.
Teaching Online Journalism: Flash and data, made for each other
Sunday, 13 September 2009, 22:16
"Toxic Waters is a large investigative journalism package from The New York Times. … Producing this kind of data graphic requires three personnel assets: Expert reporters … Data integration expertise … Flash graphic expertise"
Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 21:19
"News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to Calais … Each time two tags appear in the same story, this tool tallies one connection between them. … s this tool scans hundreds of stories, this network grows rapidly, and "communities" begin to form among the tags. … The news network that results is visualized using Slate's custom News Dots tool, which is built using an open-source Actionscript library called Flare."
Washignton Post: TimeSpace: Inauguration
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 19:48
Brilliant map/timeline presentation about Inauguration Day events in DC from the Washington Post.
