Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive is based at the Miller Center for Public Affairs University of Virginia. It collects materials relating to American politics and the history of the American presidency. Its website provides information on its collections. These include access to some key audio/ multimedia files from its presidential recordings programme which captured over 5,000 hours of conv...

Four weeks after coming to power on the back of what was widely dubbed the first internet election campaign, Barack Obama is establishing himself as the first truly multimedia president

The Wardman Wire is now on a new webhost. There are still some updates happening, as a few articles and comments have gone missing in the move and need to be retrieved. There are also a few holes since all the images and multimedia files have not uploaded yet. There are something like 7,000 of them taking up 1.5Gb so it takes some time to re-update the directories from scratch. I have had to reupl...

Channel '08 is a multimedia blog which is a joint project of washingtonpost.com and PrezVid.com. During the 2008 American presidential it provided postings, analysis and comment on the use of video and multimedia during the campaigns. It includes examples of washingtonpost.com documentaries, video from the presidential campaigns,political campaign advertising online, and videos circulating on the ...

...on September 1. I was musing about a multimedia thing, and there will be elements of that, now and again, but usually it is going to be the same old rubbish. See you then.

Giles Dilnot examines the impact of political advertising and if it matters in a multimedia world, and how campaigns are run differently in other countries.

Philip Collins and the multimedia team have been pondering the many ways in which Gordon could leave Downing Street. Will he follow in the footsteps of Wilson? Or Callaghan? Or perhaps Thatcher? And what's the likelihood he gets the second...

The University of Dundee and Balhousie Care Group have formed a unique partnership to create an innovative use of touchscreens and multimedia to enhance the care of people with dementia.

Well...kind of. After three years and 646 posts, the beatroot is going into a summer hibernation - as all root vegetables should do at this time of year - only to re-emerge in the autumn bigger, better…etc. We will be back in a slightly different form, however, taking a little more multimedia approach. And I am still going to write for other places. In fact, I can write more often elsewhere.

Adobe's long-running multimedia tools receive their latest facelift. But what's under the hood?