this week's work

OK, I think I have just found a new calling for myself- flash journalism.
This week me and my comrade Kevin Quealy spent all our free time to put together a flash page for the missourian. It appeared along with the new sunday cover about the historic district downtown.
Writing the program turned out to be fairly easy. the hard part was getting all the graphics to look right. that was Kevin's department. But unfortunately, the whole exercise was divergent from what we learn in class. Learning flash should be a requirement for all convergence students. The 'jack of all trades and a master of none' is a bad model for journalists to follow. As convergence people, we should concentrate on an area in which we can 'corner the market,' i.e. flash
Learning the actionscript is imperative. A really good book is 'teach yourself actionscript for flash in 24 hours' Note: the 24 hours claim is a complete lie. Richard Feynman might take that long, but everyone else should spend a month to digest it.