Google has paired up its Translator with its personal RSS aggregator, Reader. I use Google Reader everyday. I think its such a great application. Instead of having to navigate to fifty different blogs a day I’m provided with a space where I can see all of their updates in one spot.
Now that Reader has the ability to translate, internet users around the globe will no longer be held back by language. I’m interested to trying this out. I would love to read about digital media from a Japanese blog or band reviews from a French music site.
Keep it up, Google!
I learned…
In the beginning ….. an Introduction ….
First of all, I want to thank the folks at Talent Zoo for asking me to be one of their bloggers at Digital Pivot. ‘Tis an honor I don’t deserve. I will try to make my blogs interesting, witty and thoughtful.
Initially, I want to share with you my perspectives, creative background and the source of my creative musings. So, sit back, read on and get to know me.
There are so any things going on in the interactive, broadcast and new media platforms that it is near impossible to keep up with it all. In…
An interesting paradigm shift happened recently in the entertainment world. Unless you share musical tastes similar to myself and sported a mullet and Metallica shirt through the seminal metal years of 1983-1991, the release of anything new by Motley Crue most likely didn’t register anywhere on your radar.
You probably wondered to your self, “Self? They’re still alive?” Yes they are. Bow down.
During the first week of release, the eponymous single from their new album, Saints of Los Angeles, shifted 47,000 downloads. In this era of marginal music sales still eclipsed by rampant piracy, this might not be superficially significant. To me it is. It’s not the…
It’s possible to learn some handy graphic design tips from the Webby Award winning online video series You Suck at Photoshop. But You Suck, from creators Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch, teaches entertainment and advertising creatives a lot more about how to tell a story in the online medium.
As story, Donnie Hoyle’s tortured tutorials involving the use of the cloning tool and the horrible breakdown of his marriage is brilliant.
That’s because it shows us what elements are most important for telling a good story on the web:
- First-Person Point-of-View: Donnie talks right at us. This is completely one man’s life. Narrow focus.
- Specific World: You…
I read about a recent Twitter-inspired story contest, and I decided to write this 140-character post about micro fiction. 140. With spaces.
