8 Traits
Andrew Devigal tweeted about Mashable’s 8 Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalists. How many do you have under your belt now? How will you get the rest? And when?
Notes from aside the camera
Andrew Devigal tweeted about Mashable’s 8 Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalists. How many do you have under your belt now? How will you get the rest? And when?
Argh! I’m beginning to think about #2: Programmer.
We’ll be implementing a new web-site format soon, and the content management system is overly formatted. When uploading top media to be displayed (rotating latest pics and videos) next to the headlines, it must fit a 3×4 horizontal format. So now I have to make sure to shoot a squarish horizontal as a preview, regardless of the content. Verticals will be automatically cropped to the format with little control over how it’s cropped.
Reminds me of W. Eugene Smith’s quote: “[I crop ] for the benefit of the pictures. The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.”
Amend that to … neither does the world fit conveniently into the format of standard or Hi Def television.
Seriously folks, how hard is it to program a container that would display horizontal AND vertical media in an attractive and logical manner.
Grrrrrrr! Journalists are going to HAVE to become programmers if they want design to be a function of content, instead of the other way around.