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Hindsight is 20/20. It’s a shame its so far-sighted…or near-sighted…at the current time. It’s shocking to look back and see what has happened in a year. As I spent time filling out my self-review, I was able to look back at the projects I had worked on since joining the USA TODAY staff last February… and I realized I had not marked links to most of them…so here they are:

• The Grunion: A lost sub found by new family
• Primary Exit Polls
• Yankee Stadium Tribute
• NFL Draft 2008
• NFL Draft History: Finding the talent
• Life Summer Media Preview: Movies | Music | Books | TV
• Olympics: Ever Wonder…
• Olympics: Sights & Sounds Interface/Player (template)
• Campaign Finance Tracker
• Mr. October
• College athletes and their majors
• Bowl Calendar

The interesting thing is that more recently, I have not been focused on projects. I have been spending a lot of time working on templates, components and tools. I guess I should make that a post all it’s own in the near future…

Before I left my gig with Discovery Communications’ Creative Resources group, I worked on a viral marketing campaign intended to gather information about the audience of Military Channel…

It’s one of those Upload Your Photo, add a Tattoo, E-mail it to your friend/family/loved one.

Try it out: http://military.discovery.com/e-card/tattoo.html

In an effort to answer user’s questions about various olympic sports and get the reporting started on the olympics with the trials…we created a very nice Papervision3D Carousel to hold some really stellar explanatory graphics.

Unfortunately, this also helped us realize that PV3D is nowhere near ready for the mainstream. It still runs extremely slow on the processor – except on the killer MacBook Pros that the Design department is working on. But, that is not our target audience…

Alternative solutions? No carousel?

Leaves me questioning how to push the envelope with so many restrictions…

Leave it to MediaStorm to put together an all-out package that really impresses me. Not only does this one put it all in one place, but it also does a terrific job of presenting the information.

The timeline is fantastic. And it lets you dig into parts of the story. Albeit, when I first looked at it, I wasn’t sure which way to read (left-right or top-bottom), but I figured it out.

On top of that, under the maps there is so much data – but put into charts that give it context. Terrific! Now, let’s add some interactivity to those charts!!!

Check it out: http://iraq.reuters.com/

In conjunction with the “Grunion Family,” I worked with a wonderful team to produce a memorial to the 70 crew members of a U.S. submarine that sank 65 years ago off the coast of Alaska:
Lost crew discovers a family