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Fast Times at Redesign High
A little over a month ago, CNN.com announced a dramatic redesign of its Web site. Headed up by general manager KC Estenson and creative director Brian Martin, the site now has a tidied-up, stripped-down interface that uses lots of video to showcase the dynamic nature of breaking news. Simplifying news design is a bona fide trend--Reuters' revamp and Aol.'s pending relaunch are two more recent projects that come to mind--but CNN.com has three secret weapons powering the journalistic machinery behind the smart new look: a wealth of broadcast-quality video, brand-name journalists, and recently hired vice president and managing editor Meredith Artley. She's responsible for a way of thinking that aims to change the way both CNN.com and CNN reporters work.
Artley views the newsroom as a cohesive unit, or, as she calls it, a "giant candy store," where the knowledge of contributors from all corners of CNN can be creatively combined to produce comprehensive, multimedia coverage of any story. Joining the team just before the redesign, Artley encouraged reporters not only to use the latest streaming video technology and share resources but to actually tell stories in a different, often more personal way. "This is a place for journalists to really have an impact," Artley says. "I think we can change the future of storytelling."
I'm torn on CNN.com's recent redesign. Major headlines are belittled to the left while sexy news takes up the primary column. Never mind that boxes are boring, albeit easy from a number of content management standpoints. That said, I do like more reliance on embedded video and NewsPulse is simple and nice feature.
I'm glad that Fast Company chose to cover this. And wow, a media story not about the death of mainstream journalism which, IMHO, will reclaim the throne once the jesters are caught sleeping at their TweetDecks.
Teachers Make a Difference
In light Efren Peñaflorida's CNN Hero of the Year win, I wanted to share one of my favorite Def Poetry Jam videos, Taylor Mali showcasing that teachers do make a difference in the lives of their students.
That being said, there are so many teachers from elementary, high school through to university, that have made me the person I am today, and I would like to thank each and every one of them. Of course, there are also numerous friends and family members that have taught me a thing or two about life, and I would not be the person I am today without them as well. Thank you.
Video(s) after the jump.
And since it is a Friday after all, I figured that I would include some of my favorite Def Poetry Jam videos as well. See below and enjoy!
Gemineye: Penny for your thoughts
Sarah Kay: Hands
Dante Basco: Nikki
Lou Dobbs to Latinos: It was all a big misunderstanding
Lou is going to make a third party run for President in 2012 or -- even better -- a run against Bob Menendez for the NJ Senate in 2010. Lou just can’t understand why Latinos aren’t warming up to him.
Good luck with either campaign, Lou.
Efren Peñaflorida named CNN Hero of the Year
Efren Peñaflorida of the Philippines was named CNN Hero of the Year 2009 last night, at a gala event taped before an audience of 3,000 people at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
In his acceptance speech, Peñaflorida acknowledged the work that his co-volunteers put into the Dynamic Teen Company, an organization that provides Filipino youth in slum areas an alternative to gang membership, through education programs. Peñaflorida will receive a $100,000 grant to continue his work with the Dynamic Teen Company.
"Serve, serve well, serve others above yourself and be happy to serve. As I always tell to my co-volunteers ... you are the change that you dream, as I am the change that I dream, and collectively we are the change that this world needs to be. Mabuhay."
Sincere congratulations to Peñaflorida, as well as to everyone who made it to the CNN Heroes top 10 from an initial pool of more than 9,000 viewer nominations.
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Wonder why no mention of Obama's birth certificate? Guests on TDS seem to shift their opinions to the center real quick then challenge the audience to do the same. Then they go back and start advocating Orly Taitzism and Mexican wall-building.
#WTF #CNN spins #OathKeepers who swear allegiance to #Constitution and Bill of Rights not #President #Obama
P.S. And BTW, when CNN sits there making a point to say several times there are no internment or concentration camps here in the U.S., that's 110% Bull Sh!t. I just got done watching the extremely hard hitting movie "Camp FEMA" and I couldn't sleep for 2 friggin days. It is that bad, it's really happening, and it's for the American public. Look for yourself.
What does it mean when the talking heads on 24 hour cable news networks spin the fact that members of www.OathKeepers.org, are patriotic US Military, Police, and Law enforcement personnel that are reaffirming the very oath they took in to first place... portraying them as dangerous radical extremists?
Well, I don't know what that means (*cough, cough*) exactly. Are the discredited Main Stream Media and their elitist masters getting worried about something?Doing hit pieces on The Oathkeepers for pledging to uphold and defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights from all enemies, foreign AND domestic, even drawing attention to "Fall of the Republic" after it's director has been banned from CNN forever. I sense something... --Seditious BlasphemerSedition, Sorcery, and Blasphemy
