Increasingly, we find ourselves working on various workgroup projects here at the IAJ.  And increasingly our project colleagues are widely scattered.  Today, for example, we will be communicating with folks in Santa Fe, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and one guy who is attending a conference, possibly somewhere in the Ohio River Valley.  We've have been using PBWiki for much of this work, but sometimes one just needs to literally see the other guy's digital desktop.

A report today from the always-helpful  Internet Scout points us to:

http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx

If you are working with a friend on a joint project and he is in Houston and you are in Shanghai, what do you do? You could take a glance at TeamViewer, a program that allows for desktop sharing and file transfer. Visitors just need to run TeamViewer on both machines and the program can also be used to create and display presentations. This version is compatible with computers running Window 95 and newer. 

This week, Steve Duenes, graphics director for The New York Times, is answering readers' questions along the lines of "How did you do that?"  "Why did you do that?" and "What are the NYT's designers proud of?"  

The NYTimes is arguably the best in the mainstream media at delivering infographics in the broadest definition of the term and in both print and on the web.  (Yeah, WIRED does a good job, too, but with longer lead-times.)  Its 30 or so designer-journalists can produce illustrations of the scene of news stories to visualizations of large data sets, i.e. a day's results the the world's major stock markets.

Check out "Talk to the Newsroom: Graphics Director Steve Duenes" at http://tinyurl.com/2qb6z8