Thursday, September 4, 2008

New media, multimedia and chickens. Yes, chickens.

We could chat about the difference between new media and multimedia, which I learned this morning in class. One (multimedia) is static with few updates; the other (now obvious by default) is a living entity that’s constantly updated.

Examples of both could be provided with analysis of what works and what fails. To give you a taste, this Detroit Free Press site—looks like the mayor text-messaged his way to jail— is alive with changing stories, videos, and photos. A fixed site, but by no means less powerful, would be this one from the LA Times on Hip Hop High.

But why discuss either when we can watch the Chicken Busters. Who ya gonna call?!


3 comments:

Kindofblue said...

Very nice. I'll be watching this to see how it grows, and of course will be in line for tips.

visual circus said...

I often work with people who think like chickens...

hfish said...

Chicken Busters? Hilarious! It's great to be a journalist in South Florida.