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From a taxi ride to butchering a whale: A Flash-enabled story about an Inupiat Eskimo tradition by Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris executes more amazing work with his latest creation, The Whale Hunt, a Flash documentary about the Inupiat Eskimos’ 1,000-year-old tradition of whale hunting.
The inventive interface, functioning like an emotional EKG, displays 3,214 photographs taken over 7 days in ways that allows you to identify and explore mini-narratives within the overarching narrative of the [...]

To automate audio or not to automate audio: Listen to this robot reading Shakespeare, play with vozMe.com and suffer the slings and arrows (a 5-act drama)

Creating embeddable, audio versions of stories with Web-based software
A drama in 5 acts
1. Read Emily Chang’s mention of vozMe.
2. Play with vozMe and plug in some Shakespeare.
3. Use Emily Chang to track down a free way to host an MP3 on an external site and play it with an embeddable player.
4. Use BoomMP3 to [...]

Facebook doesn’t like Search Insider gaming its new ad system to get Facebooker comments on being targeted as ‘1984′ fans

Here’s the post explaining the experiment.
Here’s the post collecting comments from Facebookers who were targeted by the ad.
This is gaming instance one. I like seeing tools creatively used, but I imagine Facebook is wondering how to control such usage. Should it? Why?

Start a blog discussing the stories you are working on or planning to work on

If the New York Times regularly revealed what they planned to cover, when they planned to cover it and why, would you be interested?
Start a blog that reveals the inner workings of your journalism organization, make it open to the public and build a never-before-seen relationship with your customers.
Expected benefits:

Feedback from your customers on what [...]