This morning I’m finally starting a long-intended redesign of ianhillmedia.com that will involve building a custom WordPress theme. It actually will be the second custom theme I’ve built; the first was for a proposed project that never came to pass.

My goal is to create a site that best reflects me as a Web content producer, an aspiring developer and designer and an amateur photographer. Consider it a site for the modern journalist.

I’ve become rather bored with journalism industry news and blogs lately. There’s really nothing new out there, just more paywall this, mobile that, blah blah blah. It’s led me to take a brief hiatus from this blog to work on some other projects.

My biggest undertaking was Recordnet.com’s interactive snowglobe, which launched two weeks ago and can be found at www.recordnet.com/snowglobe. The project allowed me to utilize the Flint Particle System snow example in a fun, user-friendly way. I also learned more about Tweens, masks and the addChild function in Actionscript 3.0.

My to do list for ianhillmedia has long included feeding headlines from my favorite journalism industry sites into ihm’s header. Today I finally got around to it.

Headlines from Reflections of a Newsosaur, Newspaper Death Watch, Nieman Journalism Lab, the Online Journalism Blog, Romenesko, and Steve Buttry’s blog now feed into Twitter.com/jticker, a new Twitter account I set up today. Recordnet.com’s Multimedia Reporting Blog, to which I contribute, also feeds into the Twitter account.

Jticker then feeds into the ihm headline space above via Magpie RSS.

When you have a few moments, check out Youtube.com/ianhillmedia. It’s a collection of 88 videos that I shot over the past year or so and marked as favorites on Youtube.com/recordnet and Youtube.com/209Vibe.