Daniel_Haggerty's Blog

So I've been messing with some interactive features with my last few stories and I was interested to see with you think.

The first is a series I did about some interesting aspects of Providence. Mainly it's strong artist community and bike messengers. I had been trying to do the bike messenger story for a few years now but never seemed to find the time. I was extremely please with how it turned out.

I embedded that segement and several others into an interactive google map. You can click various points in the map and a bubble will pop up with video in it. Here is the link.

http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=7890647&nav=
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I also did a series on the very strong Liberian community in Rhode Island. Many of its members are giving statements to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that is trying to document and then repair their country after years of bloody civil conflict. Their statments where extremely powerful and I was in complete awe of the horrible things they described to me. I also got to try Liberian food. Its quite good and I highly recommend that you try it. Here is the link.

http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=7940986&nav=
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Finally I had the opportunity to do some really great elections coverage. My role on election day was to keep an eye on the polls and document any problems that we heard about. I only came across two problems that day and I was extremely proud that I was able to post those stories to our website before we reported it on TV. It is one of my major goals to provide a serious value to our visitors and getting that information posted as soon as it happened I think did that. Here is the link.

http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=7992721&nav=
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I spent the last part of the week trying to build an interactive map with all the polling stations and their results but wasn't able to make it work in a timely manner. I finally had to ask our webmaster Bruce to take look at the code and tell me what I did wrong. If he's able to decode my mess I will add this map to that page.

Thats it for me. Let me know if you like the "interactive" features of these stories or if you just want me to go back to doing video segments.

Regards

Dan