USA Today realises political potential of Flash journalism
October 1, 2007
Here’s a great example of Flash journalism from USA Today. The ‘Candidate match game’ allows you to see which candidate’s views match yours most closely by answering 11 questions on issues ranging from the Iraq war to same-sex marriage and health insurance.
A particularly nice touch is the sliders which allow you to ‘weight’ each issue – so if health care is more important to you, and you couldn’t care less about immigration, you can skew the results accordingly. More “news you can use”, and less politics-as-spectator-sport. Nice.
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gentral | October 2, 2007 at 8:06 am
Excelent post. I shared it with some clients. Keep up the good job
Gustavo Entrala
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Laura Oliver | October 2, 2007 at 10:11 am
Thanks for pointing this out Paul – I’m really enjoying the use of widgets by some of the US news sites.
Do you know of any UK news sites that are doing the same thing? I haven’t come across any as yet, and am just wondering why?
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paulbradshaw | October 2, 2007 at 10:36 am
Depends what you mean by widgets – the Guardian do similar useful Flash work, and the Telegraph seem to be innovating around their blog platform where you can subscribe to other bloggers, rate them, etc. Liverpool Echo has a nice tagging system though it could be opened up. But yes, I agree the widgets haven’t yet arrived on these shores so much.
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Andre Deak | October 2, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Paul, here in Brazil we’re doing something with flash too.
http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/media/infograficos/2007/07/13/100707_2.swf/view
You can drag the little maps into the big map to view the crossing of areas of GDP of agriculture, slave work and deforestation
It’s nothing compared to this USA Today flash – a great job -, but it’s a kind of flash use too.
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paulbradshaw | October 3, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Thanks – great piece of Flash – if I understand it right…
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