Mindy McAdams

"But little things — like easing in a motion or making an object bounce — can make a difference in how dynamic your animation can be or in how realistic a motion seems. The stylistic devices presented by the authors of the book are not crucial to making your story clear and lucid; your reporting, story and script are. But they can help you polish your work, the way a broad vocabulary and varied sentence structure can keep a reader interested in an article. " - Mindy McAdams

By Paul Bradshaw - July 2011 - Mindy McAdams

Python Web Scraping 101 resources, links, etc. How to do it. - Mindy McAdams

This is a document I wrote in advance of the World Journalism Education Conference held in South Africa in 2010. I was what they called an "expert" for a "syndicate" focusing on Social Media, Citizen Journalism, Media Curators. To help the members of the syndicate have a common ground for our discussions over three days, I wrote this document and distributed the link to all. - Mindy McAdams

"In the fall of 2011, John Britton and I undertook a learning experiment. John would mentor me in webmaking. I would work on an idea for an interactive world history atlas. John would help me as much as I wished, upon the condition that I document each moment of the experience." - Mindy McAdams

Advice from Serena Carpenter, a very smart professor who teaches at Arizona State. Links to examples of journalism student portfolios. - Mindy McAdams

"This article introduces HTML5 animation and walks you through creating an animation of dandelion seeds blowing in the wind." - Mindy McAdams

"... what if, instead, we begin to think of newspapers in perhaps a more mundane manner -- as algorithms for solving problems?" - Mindy McAdams

If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. - Mindy McAdams

Eye candy. - Mindy McAdams

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.x (x being at least 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. - Mindy McAdams

"Read on for the top ten reasons students fail out of Ph.D. school." This is a GREAT list! I think it's missing one thing: (11) Focus on your teaching/TA duties to the detriment of your own research. - Mindy McAdams

"Create native-looking iPhone/iPad applications from HTML, CSS and JavaScript." - Mindy McAdams

Video at the bottom of the text story is very well done because it's actually thorough -- well reported -- there's even an animated infographic in the middle of it to explain fracking. - Mindy McAdams

Good example of Soundslides. Very good photo research here - you can see how the producers took great care to match the images to exactly what the narration is talking about. The book being discussed is Gil Scott-Heron's memoir. Historic photos include many of MLK, Stevie Wonder, Jesse Jackson. - Mindy McAdams

Photoshop used to delete some people - a cosmetic fix, completely unnecessary. "As reported by The New York Times' Lens blog, the Associated Press noticed the infraction by comparing it with a similar image released by Kyodo News, a Japanese agency. The two images were taken seconds apart, revealing what's clearly a photographic infraction by the North Korean news agency." - Mindy McAdams

This is a very good, well-written profile/interview. Even though it uses the "description of my lunch with the interview subject" format (which I abhor), it shows that the writer really did his homework before the interview, and the flow is really smooth and graceful. I like it that he paints the writer with flaws but without being mean. He's critical and sometimes negative but in a detached, matter-of-fact way. When he's being more subjective, it's when he's showing empathy. - Mindy McAdams

Mostly Web apps and social media stuff. - Mindy McAdams

Thought-provoking! A really good article that pushes us to think beyond swiping our fingers on "pictures under glass." - Mindy McAdams