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By: Frank Barth-Nilsen

Frank Barth-Nilsen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:21:20 +0000

Thanks for insightful comments so far. We're planning to make an experiment with this in a couple of weeks. Will link to the result. Robban, I think you may have heard Erik Solheim or Øyvind Solstad, both excellent guys in our development department.

By: Robban

Robban — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:43:35 +0000

I actually had to read this twice before I understood it. I think you make some good points, but it’s complex.

I’m missing good examples though. After checking out different sites for a couple of hours I can’t find any real good examples either. I can’t figure out why BBC have scaled down the size of their embedded videos. I didn’t like it. They are close to what your are suggesting in this blog, but I still guess they are writing the text story first, then hooking up the clips where it is most appropriate.

By the way. Since you work at the NRK, why haven’t you guys tried this out? From what I hear, your web guys are pretty innovative. A while a go I heard Erik Solgard (I’m not quite sure about the name) and he gave a pretty solid impression.

But – big kudos for writing this stuff! I guess I don’t agree in everything you write, but this blog gets me thinking.

Go Sweden! (Looking forward for the Olympics….)

By: Helge Krabye

Helge Krabye — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:17:01 +0000

Many good points and suggestions here! Since some visitors want to read the article from beginning to end, it shouldn’t be interrupted with other media. Still, in so many cases, other media like video, graphics etc. has the ability to explain things much faster and better. Our built in curiosity also makes us want to see and hear, especially if there are strong feelings involved. – Here is an article from the online version of New York Times (I subscribe to it on my iPhone). Good use of basic text (story told complete and with a good storyline), interactive graphic (a Flash document that explains facts it would take a page of text to explain) and then embedded video which the reader can choose to watch or not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/world/asia/07k2.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin