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Something interesting from BBC

From
12 December 2010
Le Web: The tech world's best talk about the hottest trends
By Kabir Chibber
Technology of business reporter, BBC News

A variation on what we are doing for task 06

Recently one of NPR's blogs pointed to a site that is doing a form of music criticism using PowerPoint. To quote the blog ...

Each HTLTM review is basically a Power Point presentation set to a familiar soundtrack. The visuals: a blank white slate divided into three panels, one each to grade (from left to right) the instrumental, lyrical and vocal sections of the song on a scale of 1 (fail) to 6 (epic). The format is simple, but the number of moving parts is the first sign of the effort and thought that goes into not only the construction of the songs, but criticism itself.

The method used in the HTLTM postings is very similar to a task 06 done a few years back by an INLS261 student. Like the postings here, he used the phases of a piece of music as a navigation device, so the viewers could see where they were in the piece.