Got to play in code all day, and let me tell you. My head hurts, but what a wonderful class. Here's me learning action scripting in Flash at SND. I'm staring at my screen for a missing quote mark. I'm in the background.
Check out this Las Vegas Sun project, a recent example of the beauty of Flash. This interactive timeline shows Vegas hotels during different decades, with descriptions and archived stories about each hotel from that time period. Nice.
This is what I love about journalism and reading -- the learning that comes from it. I think we tend to forget to ask this in writing -- what are readers learning, in addition to the news peg? If I can say, "I did not know that" out loud as a reader or user, that's a damn good piece of journalism.
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