Interactive Interview Ahead of the Jan. 6 Hearings: Democracy and a High-Stakes Tweet

It’s time for an update on Frontline Transparency Project source interviews. In contrast to larger projects, which include several dozen source interviews from a given documentary posted at the same…

An Early Look at Some of the Source Interviews for ‘Putin’s Road to War’

The latest addition to the library of interactive transcripts that I’ve been helping PBS Frontline build are the source interviews for Putin’s Road to War, a Frontline documentary airing tonight….

Finding Stuff in Google Docs

Several folks I know talk about having trouble finding things in Google Docs. That puzzled me at first, because it’s really just another computer file system, only with better searching…

Warnings From Recent History About Facebook’s Threat to Democracy

One way to get some perspective on the news Facebook has been part of this week – the whistleblower testimony, and the outage on Monday – is to take a…

Frontline’s Interactive Library Grows: Voices on America Post-9/11

The PBS Frontline library of interactive transcript source interviews has gotten bigger – we added 35 interviews from the Frontline documentary America after 9/11, which aired on September 7. As…

Short Text Update: Learning 2,000 Words

Here’s an update on my Short Text project. Short text is a way to use one or two letters plus one or two letters for endings rather than spelling words…

Efficient Computer Input

I gave a virtual talk at the always excellent AccessU conference late last month. I don’t use a computer keyboard to control a computer – instead I use a mix…

The Faces, Voices and Gestures Behind the Print Quotes

I’ve written fairly extensively about the interactive interviews I’ve been helping PBS Frontline with. The latest example is a pair of interactive videos in the mix of the Frontline documentary…

The Pandemic, an Old Injury and a Cardboard Cutout

A long time ago I struggled for several years with Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSIs) in my hands. I eventually figured out how to get better and keep further injury at…

Finding Original Sound in StreamYard

Given the times we’re in, tools for streaming content online have become more common and more important. A few months back I wrote about the “Use Original Sound” control in…