And Aunt Jemima wins in a landslide

In a really cool example of convergent technology in the media, the Chicago Tribune put together a slideshow with audio about strange polling places for yesterday's primaries.

From a pancake house to a car dealership, they did a good job of pulling photos and spoken word into a really smooth presentation.

See, major print media outlets? You don't need embedded journalists and up-to-the-second updates filed from laptops and uploaded via satellite phone to stay relevant in the world of cable news. No, sweethearts, you just need to tell a good story and slow down instead of speeding up sometimes.

It's also nice to see that there are still some things that fall squarely into the print media's wheelhouse. While TV and the Internet are the sprinters of the media world, the newpapers and magazines of the world till stand a puncher's chance if they can adapt like this.

Aside from that, it's also a solid pictorial and with sound goes for three minutes. Very cool, almost like keeping NPR on in the background as you read the Sunday papers.

Now, is it just me or is the state board of elections asking for trouble holding elections in a diner? There wasn't any space at a library or maybe even a bank lobby anywhere in Chicago?

(Photo from the Smithsonian Institution)