A KDMC-talk listerve member asked for suggestions about how to make panorama graphics. A few great ideas worth noting were shared.

KDMC Talkers were pointed to Zach Wise's Introduction to Panoramas.  Wise, a producer for the New York Times and formerly the Senior Multimedia Producer at the Las Vegas ...

Abby Panozzo says she was raped at an off-campus party while she was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April 2006. Now she's an advocate for victims of sexual violence. Stephanie Ogburn (Jan '10) curated a website for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism that allows Panozzo ...

Huguette Clark is the daughter of William Andrews Clark, a copper baron who was almost as rich as Rockerfeller. The 103-year-old heiress owns many estates, but doesn't live in any of them.  Bill Dedman (Jan '08) explores the mystery of the ever elusive Huguette in a slideshow for MSNBC ...

Some Central Valley dairy farmers use dairy digesters to turn cow manure to electricity.  Unfortunately, this process has come under fire for creating pollution through large concentrations of methane gas.  P.J. Huffstutter (Jan '10) documented the dairy digester process in a slide show for the Los Angeles Times.

KDMC alum Rita Hibbard who leads the Seattle news start-up InvestigateWest was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation (EEJF). Hibbard, a graduate of the KDMC@USC Entrepreneur Boot Camp and the December 2009 KDMC@UCB Web 2.0 Tech Tools for Journalists Workshop ...

The Knight Digital Media Center will be at We Media Miami, March 9-11, 2009 - and we hope you will too. KDMC is a proud co-sponsor of this influential and inspiring conference for media game-changers, leaders, visionaries and investors. If you'd like to take part in the provocative discussions and ...

Webcasts of our featured presentations from the February Web 2.0 workshop are available for viewing. The webcast presentations include talks by Michela O'Conner Abrams, publisher of Dwell magazine, who discussed how to shepherd your media brand across multiple platforms; KDMC's newest addition to its team of digital ...

Last week the KDMC-talk listserv had a lively discussion about timeline tools like Dipity, Timeglider and Capzules.

Wendy Norris (Jan '10) an investigative reporter for the Western Citizen created the Complete Ted Haggard Sex, Drugs and Hush Money Timeline.  She used Dipity to create a concise explanation of a saga ...

Ben Garvin (Jul '08) brought a 59-year-old tradition into the 21st century. The St. Paul Press hides a medallion worth 10K to the finder during the Winter Carnival.  This year Garvin shot video versions of the daily clue.

Fresh from the January '10 workshop, Glenn Burkins produced his first multimedia package about an art competition for public works employees in Charlotte and Mecklenburg City, North Carolina.

Josh Levoir spends 9 hours, ten dollars of quarters and 9,000 calories during a day of dancing at a video arcade.  Eric Seals (May '08) shot a video that shows how Levoir likes to get in the groove. 

Christen Gowan (July '09) produced a whimiscal video piece that reveals the many faces, and floors, of Albany, New York's Times Union Center.  See how the center can host basketball, hockey and bull riding in one weekend.

Ryan Kim (Jan '10) shared his first impressions of Apple's iPad notebook computer with a narrated video tour of the device.

The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of Southern California will hold a special News Entrepreneur Boot Camp from May 16-21, 2010, in Los Angeles. Applications must be submitted online by Friday, February 19, 2010