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BBC College of Journalism Blog: In praise of the audio slideshow

Thursday, 21 October 2010, 10:36

Kevin Marsh: "The audio slideshow suffers from a default perception that it's neither one thing nor the other; something less than video while tainting the purity of audio. … Put the two together – great audio documentary and great still images – and you have something that is potentially MORE than great storytelling."

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paidContent: NYT’s Nisenholtz’s Speech: The Importance Of Engagement

Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 06:14

Martin Nisenholtz: "Identity is, in my view, a fundamental building block for engagement. I think Facebook has now proven it to be true. … Where I think The Times can differentiate here is in the quality of the answers, and more generally, the conversation. The secret to that is real identity. And for the first time, thanks to Facebook, we have such a system at scale. But many other services built on top of identity can be similarly engaging, from vastly improved, more relevant reviews and comments to a structured hierarchy of contributors for Times Topics. The publishing community must begin to think about building emotional connections like these in our day-to-day work. This is not a sideline to our business model: it is in the center."

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ReadWriteWeb: Flickr Releases Handy Embeddable Slide Show

Friday, 22 August 2008, 06:27

It is now possible to embed a slideshow of Flickr photographs on another site…

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 Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 21:04 0

"Photographers at the Indianapolis Star have come up with a novel way to follow the NFL’s guidelines and produce video-like multimedia content — using time-lapse photography to create audio slideshows that look like video."

 Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 21:04 0

Some impressive slideshows from the Midland Daily News in Michigan.

 Saturday, 6 October 2007, 16:04 0

"Slideshows at NYTimes.com account for an amazing 10 percent of all traffic to the site, according to its general manager, Vivian Schiller."

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PA trials new slideshow tool at Press Awards

Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 10:29

Last night, Press Gazette reported the winners of the British Press Awards live on a dedicated blog (on Twitter).
But the most exciting aspects of the project was our first public use of ShowBuilder, a new multimedia slideshow tool being developed by the Press Association and Vexed Digital.
Using the tool, we created audio sideshows to embed [...]

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