Så er der spændende nyt via Poynter igen.
Ifølge denne post om wikitorials, vil Los Angeles Times eksperimentere med ledere (editorials) skrevet og redigeret i en wiki.
Det lyder spændende – personligt kunne jeg godt tænke mig at redigere i ExtraBladets ledere, der til tider har en noget skinger tone.
Via kariosnews.org I found this interresting post from a scientist at the knowledge media institute.
He is doing an analysis on 8 years of archived emails. Go read!
M/Cyclopedia of New Media is an online dictionary focusing on the new words that our brave new technological world creates.
Lots of interresting articles here…
… is not a new snack bar, but Jim Carreys latest movie. It looks sort’a interresting – but the webpage is a hellish, hoplessly heavy flash-monster – on a 512 kb/s the load times are minimum 5 seconds. I looked at 4 pages and thus ‘volunteered’ to 4×5 seconds of idlety before I gave up.
Apart from that, almost all captions, clickable images and even splash screens uses a distinct rhetorical figure saying ‘don’t clickhere’ or ‘the next page is horrible, I strongly urge you to hit the back button’. I’ve tried to find the proper term on the figure – the closest I get is epitrope – but it is not really precise.
Any ideas?
Not being the most experienced user of powerpoint I have embarked on journey into unknown territories. Some things seem strangely familiar, and yet others are so very different from what I am used to… Take for instance the plethora of features you can add to style and actions on the page; text swirls, twirls, fades and slides – to mention just a few. As I sit here i get flashbacks to some of the first experiences with wordperfect – then it t was mindblowing that you could actually use bold or italics or even change the font size, then came word with wordart, colors and mages. Unfortunately many experiments went awry with overstyling (I’m getting to the point know…).
Styling a document with all kinds of fancy effects is not directly related to the classical rethorical understanding of ornatus, but powerpoint can be seen as part of the speaker’s actio and thus affect his delivery by being too ornated.
Well, it may be old news – but it is an important part of delivering a convincing presentation and I am proud to be aware of the pitfalls of powerpoint.