{"id":834,"date":"2008-04-07T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/great-use-of-a-mash-up-to-tell-a-story\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:19:25","slug":"great-use-of-a-mash-up-to-tell-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/great-use-of-a-mash-up-to-tell-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Use of a Mash-up to Tell a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where has Hillary really been, and under what circumstance? <\/a> Check out this use of the Google map-customization features… <\/span><\/p>\n

In the wake of the "Platoon coming into a hot LZ" story that Hillary floated last week – and that rose up to bite her in the ass, and make her a reliable butt of jokes for a few news cycles – comes this bit of multimedia storytelling.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nIt kinda threw me for a loop, at first – I was trying to see what message it was that the map was trying to tell me.  And then, I realized that this was a more sophisticated use of the web than the traditional use of infographics, that normally serve to cram complex information at you in as short a time as possible.  <\/p>\n

No, this is use of multimedia that is far more demanding – it demands that you have the time, patience and attention to really browse through all the data collected here, and that you arrive at a conclusion on your own (should you so wish). <\/p>\n

And also, should you also not wish. Because if you were only interested in a few segments of the story (such as, what the hell was Hillary doing in Dakar? GIving away a trophy to some dust-caked winner of the Paris-to-Dakar rally?<\/a>) – well then, you can just skim & browse over the map and pick out the bits of information that you are interested in and that are relevant to you.  A more trenchant hypothetical would be if you’re a foreign minister of one of these countries, and you want to see how long it’s been since the Clintons swung by on an official visit. <\/p>\n

Anyway – brilliant use of non-linear storytelling techniques, and the possibilities offered by the web.  This is an infographic that works on a lot of levels, from the most sophisticated, to the most casual interest.  And yeah, it kinda sucks you in after a bit – you want to keep mousing over all the points and trying to imagine from the sparse description what the hell was going on during that visit back in the ’90s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where has Hillary really been, and under what circumstance? Check out this use of the Google map-customization features… In the wake of the "Platoon coming into a hot LZ" story that Hillary floated last week – and that rose up to bite her in the ass, and make her a reliable butt of jokes for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[847,353,370],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-journalism","tag-politix","tag-webtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}