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New York Times Releases An Amazing New Application, Misses The Point

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 11, 2009
New York Times released a slick new new version of its  Adobe Air application called Times Reader. The innovative application allows readers to read and subscribe to NYT rich content, including articles, images and videos. New York Times are fairly advanced in the US journalism field. I use their iPhone Application regularly, and enjoy their [...]
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Immersive Online Storytelling – The Next Frontier of Emotional Attachment?

By Kfir Pravda | Published: April 8, 2009
Did you ever read someone’s Facebook status messages and learned about his personal stories through it? Did you ever read personal blogs and vlogs and felt that you are witnessing a real life story? Last semester I lectured in a course in IDC about online storytelling, together with Noa Morag and Roni Abolafia. I wrote [...]
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Online Journalism – If You Don’t Have Video On Your Newspaper’s Site You Are Going to Be Eaten

By Kfir Pravda | Published: March 20, 2009
Michael Rosenblum is the godfather of video journalism. He was a one man band video crew back at the 80′s and since then he trained and taught generations of video journalists this craft. Though poorly shot, here is a great presentation he did to UK journalists where he describes the history and reality of video [...]
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Video, Media Mix, and Emotions

By Kfir Pravda | Published: March 16, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Video is more efficient in creating emotional attachment than text – if done right. I saw this effect in a course in IDC Media School about online storytelling, which I (along with two amazingly talented lecturers, Noa Morag and Roni Abolafya) delivered last semester. In the course, the students wrote dramatic stories, [...]
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Morning Link Love

By Kfir Pravda | Published: February 16, 2009
Image via Wikipedia - 12Seconds is testing vide rooms. Seesmic is doing the same MTV changes embedding policy 11% of Americans read or post Status updates Kangaroo, the UK Hulu, closed by UK competition commission The friend connect war intensifies with Google’s new social widget Have a great day!
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