Media Talk: Dumb or Just Fun? Animation Illustrates a CBS News Item
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Critics who bemoan the dumbing down of television news would likely have been enraged by CBS Newsâ use of animated characters to explain superdelegates.
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Actual Expert Too Boring for TV! Lazy Scientists Discover New Cable Channel! TV-News Graphics Guy Gives Weatherman On-Air Surprise! Soon, you can have all the fake broadcast news you want from theonion.com. By Sonja Zjawinski.
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By Kerry Dougherty, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 7--Millions of Americans did something Tuesday they hadn't done in decades: tuned to the network news.  "CBS Evening News," anyway.   You've got to hand it to Katie Couric's publicists.
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What is whimsical and enchantingly simple on the page can look merely silly and simplistic on screen. âThe Mr. Men Showâ has its moments, but frequently something gets lost in translation.
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New line of digicams and camcorders sports kid-friendly simple features and character tie-ins.  Photos: Disney digicams
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The BBC's Click programme road-tests three gadgets making the news.
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Headlines can tell you both more -- and less -- than they intend.
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Its Saturday Night Live version of "Trivial Pursuit" is good strategy for staying ahead of age compression.
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Plus: Scientists create technicolor neuron 'Brainbow'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Amanda Cuda, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 26--People think it's easy writing about TV. They think it must be so simple to just flip on the boob tube, and yak about what you see.   Well, it is easy.   Kind of.
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It is typically easier to weave a product into an episode of a reality show like âAmerican Idolâ than into a scripted series like âGreyâs Anatomyâ or âTwo and a Half Men.â
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Yesterday's piece, lightly edited, on the Huffington Post. http://x98.us/jz  I think it looks pretty good over there!
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands.
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Also: Smiling? You can hear it in the voice. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.