Posted on June 17, 2003 by Matt

Posted on June 17, 2003 by Matt | Posted in Uncategorized

9 Responses to Breaking News

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   The Narrator says:

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   Amen.

   June 17, 2003 at 7:36 am

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   mal says:

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   Dolphins?!?! LOL

   BTW, have you got a grab of the BBC graphic? I don’t see it on the news homepage.

   June 17, 2003 at 8:32 am

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   Matt says:

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   They could have context specific ‘breaking news’ graphics as well. Next time a lorry accidentally spills tons of peas onto the A1, they could have this:

   

   Haven’t got a grab mal, but when I do I’ll post it here.

   June 17, 2003 at 9:13 am

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   natis says:

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   i experience the same thing every time i see the breaking story tagline on boston.com. nearly two years later and i still can’t shake the feeling of being so utterly unable to help and to be so far from home.

   June 17, 2003 at 11:29 am

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   Reid says:

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   Matt, I completely agree with “context specific” breaking news, although I think we’ll be seeing alot of this image…

   

   June 17, 2003 at 11:31 am

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   mal says:

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   I’m beginning to think you should host a competition for designing new Breaking News graphics. Now if only I had Gill Sans…

   June 17, 2003 at 11:54 am

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   Matt says:

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   Well if anyone else wants to create one, the image size is 207px by 133px and the font is Gill Sans at 23px (or thereabouts). Just save it to your server as a jpg or a gif and then post a comment here that looks something like:

   <img src=”absolute link to image” alt=”image description” />

   June 17, 2003 at 1:04 pm

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   Stu says:

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   Generic ‘news flash’ motion graphics (and sound effect) work well enough on TV news, but maybe it’s different on the web. Is this problem unique to the BBC site?

   June 17, 2003 at 1:53 pm

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   mal says:

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   Maybe it’s just the shouty, all-caps text? Or maybe it is the words – after all, I’d never freak if the graphic just said “Latest News”. Or maybe I would if it were “LATEST NEWS”. Yep, I reckon it’s the caps.

   June 19, 2003 at 10:40 am

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