A print and online newspaper in Taiwan called
The Apple Daily, in Chinese-language
only,
www.appledaily.com.tw, uses animated graphics it calls "news-in-motion" to reconstruct stories that appear in the
print edition and online editon of the daily tabloid newspaper and
these animated videos can be viewed by cellphone users who scan a bar
code printed in the newspaper.
The New York Times had a big story about this the other day by tech reporter Noam Cohen. The YouTube video of the Tiger Woods anime vid they did has now gotten over 2 million hits worldwide after news got out via 50 different news outlets. The Times called this the advent of Maybe Journalism, a new kind of e-journalism. It's very cool. (
www.nytimes.com)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/bu...?_r=1&emc=eta1
Can anyone here explain to me how this
works? Here is the icon they print in the newspaper to scan into your cellphone.
How does one scan a square bar code graphic (it's not the
traditional bar code we see on product labels, it is just a square,
half inch by half inch, that looks like a mosaic kind of image.
But
does one take a photo of the image in the print paper and then the
video appears on the phone screen? I believe their is a fee involved too. How do they *do* that?
How does one scan a square bar code graphic (it's not the
traditional bar code we see on product labels, it is just a square,
half inch by half inch, that looks like a mosaic kind of image). But
does one take a photo of the image in the print paper and then the
video appears on the phone screen? How do they do it, from the tech side. Are any newspapers in USA doing this yet?
http://i.d.com.com/i/dl/media/dlimag...865_large.jpeg