MediaShift Idea Lab http://www.pbs.org/idealab/rss2/redir/idealab/ Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:01:22 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.2-en http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Using Flowgram to Explain and Illuminate Dan Gillmor Flowgram, where Abhay Parekh and his team have come up with a novel Web 2.0 idea. 

It's a system that lets you guide someone through several websites or pages, showing various items -- but where the pages and links stay "live" for the user. Here's a smart one by a Flowgram developer, Tony Lopez, showing some great blogging tools:


I've created several journalism-related Flowgrams with a focus on new media. Keep in mind that I'm still an amateur at this, as will be obvious...

For example, take a look at this brief introduction to the Washington Post's superb "Faces of the Fallen" project:



Here's another, a look at how bloggers are becoming some of the best of today's media critics -- in part by pointing directly to errors and sources that show why the original stories are mistaken.



This tool has great possibilities.
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