Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About Soundslides

Make me cry.

November 17, 2007 – 9:47 am

I’ve been repeating versions of this on recent training rounds when folks ask about learning Flash, so I thought I’d post it here for reference and credit purposes…
Richard Koci Hernandez, near the end of a great Starter Kit page at Multimedia Shooter:
“Soundslides or Flash? Put it this way, if you don’t know what Soundslides is, [...]

Brainstorms, in no particular order

October 20, 2007 – 3:14 pm

Ideas bubbling to the surface on a sunny Saturday…

Has Joe Weiss ever thought about building a hosted Soundslides service, where users could upload their publish-to-web folder and get a friendly piece of embed code spit back out at them? Plus, of course, anyone could browse through any uploaded Soundslides show, and embed it on their [...]

Richard Koci Hernandez on being a multimedia shooter

February 5, 2007 – 1:54 pm

The second part of Chris Jordan’s interview with Richard Koci Hernandez of the San Jose Mercury News is live at multimediashooter.com:
“The days of the one-talent journalist are over.”
“If I have to watch another three-minute soundslides…my head’s going to explode.”*
Richard gets deep into the shift from working as a solo photojournalist to collaborating with a team [...]

Joe Weiss talks to Poynter about Soundslides

January 10, 2007 – 7:56 am

Joe Weiss, the photojournalist/programmer behind Soundslides, tells Poynter all about it:
“I think that if you just started to do them, the audio slideshow is gonna take about four or five times what it would have taken just to do the assignment visually. … I think what we’re seeing in the industry right now, is that [...]

My first Soundslides BBQ

December 8, 2006 – 8:15 am

I had a lot of help on this, so don’t give me too much credit/blame. What I could use is some feedback. Check it out here.