Get to the Poynt

"Photos, Audio and the (Glorious) Struggle to Combine Them." Glorious? Really, Pat Walters? Glorious? See because to me, you're making an old-fashioned mash up. So by all means if you think you're making a remix to the Hallelujia chorus, be my guest, think whatever you want. But you do realize people have been doing this for... ever, right? Okay now that I've read the headline, let's move on to the story.
"...many of the collections created by one program. Soundslides." Again, Pat Walters, way to make this sound like Star Wars. Basically what he's saying is that small newsrooms are leading the way in innovation with audio slideshows. Joe Weiss, the creator of Soundslides, has worked as a photojournalist for over 10 years. The program was apparently inspired by Weiss's work with "The Mountain Workshop." (sidenote: this looks hilarious.) Carrying on, Weiss makes a good point about the value of images with a story. Video and still photographs invoke different responses in viewers and should be carefully treated with regard to news pieces. He also said that there haven't been many news pieces done in audio slideshow format, which I find odd because I feel like that it would translate the best -- especially for lazy newspaper readers who want the images and the story all together in one minute.
Also interesting: "Most of the people [who] are using Soundslides are not online journalists. They're people in print papers who want to see their work online." This I found odd as well because you'd think that people online would have the background and initiative to get this going to begin with. Weiss made a good point about the readers' perspective of the slideshow, too, saying that journalists should value the attention that the viewer is giving you, and to make sure that you are making the best out of it that you can. It's important to keep in mind what images they would want to see, not just shoot the best one still photograph that print papers would use. And keep in mind the time aspect, because too long of a show will lose readers altogether.
Another sidenote: this article has an obscene amount of typos and spelling errors.