This month I’m watching multimedia, photojournalism, free software websites and one hilarious YouTube video.

At Work

The Big Picture Blog at Boston.com is still one of my favorite photo blogs. Alan Taylor is a developer at Boston.com and posts entries Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week.

The Polygamists

National Geographic now posts photo galleries on their website from each print edition. The Polygamists is one of many well edited galleries on the National Geographic site.

Advice From A Grandma Beauty Queen

This New York Times video is a great piece of personal journalism. The filmmakers happen to be the beauty queen’s grandsons. The photography is mediocre but the storytelling is excellent.

Royalty Free Music That IS FREE

I ran across this list of free music sites on Vimeo recently. I have used several of these sites including incomptech.com, audiofarm.org and freesound.org.

Why The Designer Holds The Key To The Future of Journalism

Journalism 2.0 is run by Mark Briggs. He recently posted this guest column from Adam Westbrook, a multimedia journalist based in London. Westbrook talks about web design and how it can help sell online news. He also mentions Flyp Media which is a highly designed online news magazine.

Visual Complexity

Continuing on the design theme…visual complexity is a site devoted to graphic design. There are excellent examples of both low-fi and high-fi web graphics.

Effect Generator

Journalists want to learn Flash. Flash is complicated and it requires you to learn action scripting.  Effect Generator is a free Flash-like website where you can create video effects, slideshows and animations. Effect Generator also has great video tutorials to guide you through your first project.

Eric Bressi On Being Elvis

AARP’s website, AARP Bulletin Today, has recently begun featuring documentary videos. Eric Bressi On Being Elvis was created during last year’s Eddie Adams Workshop. This mini-doc mixes still images and sound.

New York Times Haiti photo/graphic

Satellite images help tell the story of destruction in Haiti. The New York Times staff found images from before and after the 7.0 earthquake that illustrate the extent of the damage. This is flat out one of the coolest photo/graphic pieces from the Port-au- Prince coverage.

Charlie Brooker - How to Report The News

For a little fun here is a YouTube video that pokes fun at broadcast news.

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