Free like Freedom Fries

Posted Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 6:53 p.m. by Chris Amico in Multimedia about fun, journalism and tools

Want to do your next multimedia project without emptying your wallet? Mark Luckie over at 10,000 Words has you covered: 8 Ways to save money on your next multimedia project.

Truth is, most of what a journalist needs to work online is free, and a lot (often the best) is open source: Visualizing data? Try Django or ManyEyes (depending on how you feel about code). Want photo galleries? Embed a Flickr slide show, or go nuts on Vuvox. Need a wiki on your site? Here's four options.

How much good, no-cost stuff is out there?

Everything on this list

Have fun.

Updates: oldest first | newest first

  • 11:29 p.m.

    Just a test live entry here. Nothing special.

  • 11:35 p.m.

    Tweeting from my blog's admin here. If it works, we're almost there.

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