Comments on: Dallas Morning News mid-internship recap and John F. Kennedy project introduction

By: Greg Linch

Greg Linch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:41:44 +0000

@Emily and Sean: It’s like you guys are in my head. Those are literally my exact ideas (down to the SIMILE timeline with the JFK example).

@Max: Incorporating video is definitely in the plan, but I don’t think it will be for every day or timeline item. The two most important factors would be: 1) If video is the best way to convey the story and 2) If video is available or could be produced.

Including other historical facts is a good idea, but I think it would take second or third seat to the main story. The idea is to offer something uniquely valuable and informative, highlighting the DMN’s exclusive/special content that can’t be found elsewhere.

Thanks, everyone!

By: S.P. Sullivan

S.P. Sullivan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:03 +0000

I think the timeline idea would work best as well.

MIT has a cool timeline widget that takes just a little bit more Javascript know-how than I’ve got, but I’ve done some poking around for customizable timelines and it’s the best I’ve seen so far.

In fact, the sample timeline already uses the JFK assassination as an example.

By: Max.W

Max.W — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:12:09 +0000

Definitely a time line would be awesome, something that’s interactive and is real user friendly. With the time line video would be a definite inclusion for each date with little interactive bit that user can access on each page, also little history facts at each point too.

Also it would be great to also include other history facts from around the world at the time of each featured date event, it would be nice to see what was happening in the world also which would be a great add on.

Also a video feature where users could post their thoughts regarding each event, so u could have a list of responses be date to get user views and feedback from around the world.

Good luck!! this sounds like a real exciting project.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:20:38 +0000

Great idea re-imagine the forum fantastic, i’ve gone past this location in d-town, explain to people what took place, the best way to tell the story would be to print it in the paper, asking questions, a survey. This is some-what a redo but you understand this is a historical individual during the Cuban Missile crisis they made books and stuff give this entire facelift of the website to a web-design firm. First thing I want to see when I arrive is the timeline, links, and menu, because it already happened this doesn’t involve anyone else but the city council.

By: Emily Kostic

Emily Kostic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:42:01 +0000

My initial reaction to the JFK Project was that this could be the perfect opportunity to make an interactive timeline like no other.

For example, at such and such time, the first shots were first; at this time, Officer Tippit was shot. You could even go on past Nov. 22, 1963 to the day of his funeral, the day the Warren Commission began, the day it was completed, the days that those present and important to that 11/22/63 died (i.e., Jackie Kennedy, Connelly, etc.) When you click on each bit of the timeline, it could take you to a sub-page, with links to articles done by the newspaper at the time with maybe a modern update on the top of the page.

Just thinking out loud…

Definitely sounds like a cool project though. Best of luck with it!