YES! Thank you!

And yes, Flash *is* fun. The more you learn about it, the more fun it is!

You also said you don’t think people would like to visit the site more than once. You may be right, but I would be really interested in visiting it every once in a while to see how the ratings fluctuate.

I do agree with you, however, on the design aspect of the production and the colors used. The red and green were very distracting and could be confusing.

However, presidential election is not a new event, and all elections have something in common. As journalist, we can foresee that during the election, certain number of candidates will quit. So I guess, when journalists are developing this kind of package, they should creat another folder, especially for these candidates. to recored when they quited, and how they achieved in the election. Information about these candidates may be useless now, but it may be very important later, for example, someone become candidate of 2012 election or later become the president.

In this way, we can keep up the updated information easily and audience can easily get information they want. Also, this package can be used as a reference of 2008 presidential election later. We should realize that one of the important roles of news is to record the history.

Honestly, I think the presentation should be edited when someone drops out of the race. Since we haven’t actually done any Flash yet, I’m not sure how much work this would be.

It would be ideal if all the various versions of the presentation were available for users to view - that would be a real log of the process of the race.

Obviously, we can’t just keep producing folo-up Flash presentations like we can write a quick story. So when the information becomes useless, or historical, let’s say, is it the journalist’s responsibility to change the content of the package? And if they do that, what’s the archival implication? Are they changing history’s record?

Yes, yes, YES!!!

(I agree that buying links is muy sleazy!)

One of my favorite blogs is written by a 22-year-old reporter at a small daily newspaper. She writes mostly about her job. But she takes her blog seriously, and it is usually very interesting! It gives me a window into the life of a newspaper reporter who is just starting out.

Meranda Writes — http://merandawrites.com/

If you press the REC button twice, you will pause the recorder.

I always check to see that the seconds are ticking upward on the recorder display — that assures you that it really is recording.