Link to Innovative Interactivity's List: "Thirty multimedia people to follow on Google+"

Tracy Boyer Clark, founding manager and editor of Innovative Interactivity,  recently posted a nicely curated list of interesting people to follow on Google+.  


Thirty multimedia people to follow on Google+


Tracy is a fantastic resource for all things related to multimedia. Be sure to add her to the list. BTW, my Google+ Multimedia circle includes everyone on Tracy's list, and a few more.


Thanks, Tracy, for sharing this list!

Quick Link: Eight Inspirational Interactive HTML5 Sites, plus "how-to" links, via Innovative Interactivity (II)-Tracy Boyer

I'm moving up from HTML to HTML5, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one in the world that is doing so... for that reason, I'm sharing a link to great HTML5 resources.


Enjoy exploring the HTML5 creations! 


Eight Inspirational Interactive HTML5 Sites
Tracy Boyer, Innovative Interactivity (II), 2/8/11  


For your convenience, I've borrowed a few links from Tracy's post:
HTML5 Gallery
12 Fun & Clever Examples of HTML5
10 Addictive Games That (ACTUALLY) Demonstrate The Power Of HTML5 Technology
HTML5 – Examples of interactive graphics, infographics and interactivity
Presenting an HTML5 Interactive Infographic

Mindy McAdam’s series over at Teaching Online Journalism, via Tracy Boyer:

Tips for HTML5, part 1

Tips for HTML5, part 2

Tips for HTML5, part 3: Tags we won’t see anymore

Tips for HTML5, part 4: New tags

Tips for HTML5, part 5: A closer look at selected tags

Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3Video for HTML5: The latest update

If you are really serious about this topic, take a look at Dive into HTML5, by Mark Pilgrim.

A plug for Innovative Interactivity's Top 5 January Posts (Tracy Boyer)

Tracy Boyer's Innovative Interactivity (II) cover many topics that most likely would interest readers of this blog. She's conveniently listed the top five II blog posts for January.  Take a look!

1. Job opportunities, January 2011
2. NFB and The Goggles launch interactive documentary Pine Point
3. Adam Westbrook publicizes his top media predictions for 2011
4. Multimedia must-see: Climate Wisconsin
5. Selling Yourself: What’s your story?

Newspaper Biz and 21st Century Tech: Great post by Tracy Boyer (Innovative Interactivity)

My solution to the failing newspaper business plan
Tracy Boyer,  Innovative Interactivity  (11/10/10)


Take some time to read Tracy Boyer's thoughtful post on the Innovative Interactivity blog covers some of the key issues facing the newspaper industry today, even if you don't read the newspaper.  She brings up some points that are worth thinking about, no matter what your field, since technology is rapidly changing the way everyone does business--and life.


I read the printed newspaper every day, but I also scan an assortment of "news widgets" I selected for my browser's home page.  I get much of my new news from tweets.   


My morning paper delivers old news, but that's OK, since it satisfies my addiction to newsprint.   But that's not all.  It brings up fond memories of my childhood when I looked forward to the Sunday paper so I could use it to build forts around the coffee table with my brother. 

"Out My Window", a web-based, interactive 360-degree panorama, multimedia storytelling/documentary creation, directed by Katerina Cizek, of the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada's "Out My Window",  part of the Highrise Project. 


Tracey Boyer, founder and managing editor of the Innovative Interactivity blog, recently posted about "Out My Window", a web-based interactive documentary filmed in 360-degree panoramic video, directed by Katerina Cizek,  a participant of the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project.


After I read Tracy's blog post and explored her link to Out My Window,  I felt that it was worth sharing it on this blog.  Tracy's post provides a good description of the project, which represents a collaboration of over 100 people from around the world:  Multimedia must-see:  NFB's interactive 360 panorama documentary, "Out my window"


The opening page/view/scene of Out My Window provides the following description to the viewers/participants:


"You see them all over the world.
Concrete residential highrise buildings are the most commonly built form of the last century.
On the outside, they all look the same.  But inside these towers, people create community, art, and meaning.  Explore."


For the best experience, I recommend that you take the time to find a nice large touch-screen display or IWB to participate in the documentary - and maybe with a friend or colleague. (Some of the content is in French.)  I also recommend that you take Tracy Boyer's advice and make sure you experience the interactive documentary with a good speaker system.  The soundtrack is awesome! 


HIGHRISE Trailer



The NFB's Highrise project unveils its new interactive web documentary, Out My Window
Julie Matlin, NFB.ca Blog, 10/15/10


About HIGHRISE and Director Katerina Cizek (From the Highrise website)

"HIGHRISE is a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. Under the direction of documentary-maker Katerina Cizek, the HIGHRISE team will be making lots of things. Web-documentaries, live presentations, installations, mobile projects and yes, documentary films. We will use the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly in the FIR philosophy — putting people, process, creativity, collaboration, and innovation first.

In the first Filmmaker-in-Residence project, we worked at a major inner-city teaching hospital with doctors, nurses, researchers, and patients, challenging the conventional notions of “documentary” and academic research — and did more than just observe and record. We produced dozens of documentaries — and photo exhibits, participatory media workshops, and a feature-length web documentary.

How can the same approach be applied to urbanism? How can documentary help re-invent our cities at their edges? By going global and local at the same time, HIGHRISE is based in intensive community collaboration, married to an international vision for what documentary can be."


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