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Digital content is the combination of material in the form of writing, photography, multimedia and interactive tools. The role of a content producer is to bring these disparate elements together into a single presentation or “show” that delivers a message, chronicles a expedition, tells a story. Content what makes the Web a fun place to surf, and an effective place to work. The links below reflect projects that I have been involved in as writer, photographer, videographer, field producer or a combination of several such roles. |
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Late in 2010 the AOL "hyper-local" network Patch.com came to Sonoma County. I became a correspondent with several regular features on healdsburg.patch.com, including a Now & Then history column. In Feburary 2011, blogging platform huffingtonpost.com was purchased by AOL, putting Arianna Huffington in charge of newly formed Huffington Post Media Group -- of which Patch is a part. Click here to see the recent columns from Patch. |
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Cast out of L.A. like a Botox casualty, I returned to Northern California to write a movie blog. Oh, I had real work some of the time, but In the Dark was what kept me going -- the opportunity to discourse at modest length on any film that caught my attention, or my ire. Ah, bless the gods of blogs. | |
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When we worked with the Yahoo! Media Group down in Santa Monica, we created a content-rich project called Richard Bangs Adventures (at the distinctive URL adventures.yahoo.com). Unfortunately we ran headlong into the Web 2.0 wave, the adulation of the under-30 demographic, the rise of user-generated content. | |
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We worked with MSNBC to develop a series of travel projects by providing digital photography, copy editing, media production and Web building. These projects entertain with dispatches, slide shows, audio and video features and more Great Escapes. Other projects for MSNBC included a travel feature on Panama. You'll find a two-part article, 360° panoramas, and even a short video, if you click here. |
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TerraQuest
captured the imagination of its audience — school students,
curious Web surfers, scientists, media geeks, and travelers themselves
— with its "Virtual Expeditions" to Antarctica and Galapagos.
Here you can recreate the journey undertaken in
On Assignment: Ecuador. |
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Microsoft's experiment in virtual expeditions was the online magazine Mungo Park, where I was interactive editor. One of our first trips was an odyssey through Mali, in search of the real Mungo Park. Revisit the adventure in The River Road to Timbuktu (opens pop-up presentation). |
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The blues is America's music, with its roots deep in the alluvial soil of the South and its branches spread world-wide. The Blues Primer surveys the development of the music, with links to key books and CDs, as well as the PBS documentary series "The Blues" and a recent MSNBC article, "Gravestones on the Blues Highway." |
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Exclusive online feature: "The Usumacinta, Rafting the River of Ruins" is an article from 1977 about the Maya ruins and adventure rafting on the Mexico/Guatemala border. It's a big PDF (about 10MB) so it might take awhile to download. Let me know what you think. |
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