@jashenkas and @wycatz discuss jQuery, Ember, Backbone, etc.

NPR audio version is available on Internet Archive!

Really just bookmarking this so I can paraphrase a great piece of advice from Iain Lobb:

Be a domain expert, not an expert in a technology. For example, if you're interested in games, be a games expert. Technology moves on, but all the same principles apply in a domain regardless of technology.

A great interview with Bjork wherin she discusses the creative process behind the iPad art/vis app that powers the Biophelia project.

What struck me especially is that she values idiosyncrasy itself. I think she sees something uniquely human in the dusty corners of creative endeavors. Indeed, I'm beginning to realize that just as our weaknesses give us character, so also the flaws in a work of art give it humanity.

You can use the tool of Western Civilization and be impulsive and intuitive and emotional -- and that, for me, creates a lot of hope.

Sometimes pointless delightfulness is exactly what the world needs.

A huge collection of "batteries included" classes for Processing or Java, including particle systems, color, audio, more.

A very robust sound player in HTML5 with Flash shim. BSD license.

Dan Benjamin's updated guide with info on new equipment available.

A clever conjunction of CSS3 rotation and clip to produce a circular progress bar.

Allows <video>, <audio> to work across browsers and across codecs. It "upgrades" browsers, using Flash and Silverlight shims to handle support for anything the browsers doesn't (Webkit support for WebM, Chrome support for H264, IE support for the whole shebang, etc). From there the whole JS API is available and consistent. CSS styles for player.

Cocoa port of sfxr

Sound effect generator for video games (open source!)

Something I noticed.. if an mp3 file in an <audio> tag is too short (<0.2s), it won't play. Solution: http://cl.ly/3oFn

Getting around performance and technical issues with sound in iOS. Ideal for HTML5 gaming. Maybe write a class around this for Impact.js?

Resources for learning to create your own public radio stories.

From the Opera dev community, a comprehensive guide to media in HTML5.

Cool!

Ira Glass: “Could you do a whole story on Moist?” Joss Whedon: “You’re underestimating the power of Damp.”

Gold, every bit of it. Full transcript. Covers ethics, business models and emerging patterns that are working.

Vonnegut’s “first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published, on May 4, 1970 at the 92nd Street Y.”

Site for the TED conference. Creative commons video and audio of the talks.

Ira Glass on how to become a great storyteller.

@eyeseast's journalism toolkit. Handy links. Related blog post: http://www.chrisamico.com/2008/12/30/new-tools-for-new-news/

Mindy McAdams' journalist's resource. A simple html page with useful curated links.

Nice, quick run-through list of story types and what kind of media they're suited to.

Waterproof any electronic device. Awesome bit of travel knowledge. I'm thinking this might work great for a cell phone.

Digital iPod Voice Recorder with Detachable Microphone.

Mindy McAdams of Teaching Online Journalism: Podcasting as supplemental material in education and in journalism

Video podcast. "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators & global change."

A citizen journalism network of Podcasting stringers. Sweet.

Podcasting mic used by Boag and the Rissington Podcast.

Alive in Baghdad is a podcast, the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground. They produce weekly videos on daily life in Iraq, showing the conflict through the voices of Iraqis.

Does what it says on the box. Sound good saying "A steel seal searches childish snakes for chewy chocolates" on the cheap.

Huge media reference. How to vlog, compression tips, photo tips.. You get the idea.

Takes any link to an mp3, flv, mov, etc, and creates a simple flash player in it's stead.

Step by step tutorial. I think I may have run into this site in the past.