Links of Note: July 3, 2007
Trying Times In Toontown(National Journal)
Editorial cartoonists are taking advantage of the Web's A/V capabilities, but they're also encountering the biggest obstacle in multimedia production: time.
"The flashy animations are fun but enormously time-consuming, [Walt] Handelsman [of Newsday] said. It usually takes him one to three hours to finish a print cartoon once he has the concept. A Web animation can gobble up 40 to 70 hours and requires scads of drawings and original voices."Anyone who's ever developed an intricate Flash or multimedia project knows it requires hours of preparation and production. Try as we might to expedite the process, there's no getting around the gruntwork. The time crunch cartoonists are facing should serve as a cautionary tale for all editors and producers: understand the scope of a multimedia project before committing to it.
iPhone Stress Tests
(PC World)
Eric Butterfield puts the iPhone through the Feats of Strength: dropping, pushing, rubbing, etc. The iPhone holds up surprisingly well.
Watch the stress test video.
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