23 Sep 08 ‘EPIC 2014′, revisited
It’s interesting how much of this video, made back in 2005, is starting to come true. Will they save the journalism industry? With today’s unveiling of the Google Android phone, Google continues it’s “epic” growth over the media landscape.
And I for one welcome our new media overlords and look forward to toiling away in their underground research labs.
Also of interest is the NYTimes profile of HTC and its founder, Cher Wang. Gives a little bit of insight on why Google chose HTC (and HTC chose Google) for the hardware of their phone. Investors, start throwing your money at HTC stock now, if you have any left that is.
P.S. And to further prove my point of the impending Google take over, I switched my theme to a Google Chrome-based one that was available about a day after Google Chrome debuted.
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28 Aug 08 ABC News producer arrested in Denver (video)
You’ve probably already heard about this, but now there is video of the ABC News producer who was arrested in Denver.
The video doesn’t lie, these cops were aching to arrest someone. Pushing someone into the street and then telling them they are “blocking traffic” is just ridiculous. I am curious about what happened between the cut of cop pushing then suddenly the guy, identified as Asa Eslocker, is arrested.
Hmm, I wonder how much of this we’ll see in St. Paul next week.
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24 Aug 08 Jay Rosen on the political conventions
Via BigThink.
Just a note to BigThink, nix the ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ colors on the videos.
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21 Aug 08 Overnight at the Sentinel
My friend, former colleague and Orlando Sentinel Web producer Matt Simantov recently (and may still be) spent many an hour working as Tropical Storm Fay passed over Florida. Simantov, he also of Control Freak fame, made this short, hip little music video that I thought I’d share.
Sure, it’s not news but it’s fun, lighten up people!
Tags: Orlando Sentinel, video
16 Jun 08 Twittering your way into a new job
From the LA Times, this guy Twitter’ed his layoff from Yahoo! and it ended up landing him a new job. Sweet!
The embed code on the video wouldn’t work properly so I had to just do it as a link.
Still, it’s an interesting story.
Related Links16 Jun 08 Video web design tutorials
Want to learn some basic Web design stuff but don’t feel like slogging through a book or taking a community college class? Here are a whole gaggle (well 10 actually) of video tutorials someone linked on Mashable covering everything from basic HTML to CSS and even some PHP and other scripting languages. Check it out.
Oh, and I have no idea what is up with the picture of Tony “Gazelle” Little.
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14 Jun 08 Ira Glass on storytelling
Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life, explaining his take on storytelling. I think a lot of this can be appropriated to how we need to start telling stories online, be it by video, audio or just in words.
Now, this isn’t a cure-all template that can and will always work, but it’s a good way of thinking when it comes to good storytelling. If anything, if you are a big fan of TAL but don’t really know why, this sort of explains it.
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14 Jun 08 NCMR 2008
This is AdBusters’s video from the NCMR 2008 in Minneapolis. I am so upset that I missed this. I left Minnesota the week before this conference began. Hopefully they’ll bring it back to the city next year.
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06 May 08 ‘Battle at Kruger’ best animal video ever
If you haven’t seen the ‘Battle of Kruger’ yet take the eight minutes to watch it. It’s quite possibly the best act of nature caught on video.
The eyewitness video was so vivid and full of drama that National Geographic made an entire documentary about it. You have to watch the full thing to understand how amazing it is but simply put, it is a Disney movie brought to life.
Off topic yes, but this was too cool not to share.
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30 Apr 08 Facebook, in real life
Disturbingly accurate and very funny. Via British sketch comedy collective Idiots of Ants.
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29 Apr 08 Online feature: Las Vegas Sun, ‘Bomb Demonstration’
I’ve been incredibly impressed with the online presence of the Las Vegas Sun. There’s something about the site that just breathes and feels welcoming. One area where they are shining is their multimedia offerings. Like I mentioned in a post yesterday, they include a multimedia link as an integral part of their navigation.
There it is, right there at the top just screaming ‘Click Me!’
One of the pieces they ran recently was a video piece bomb testing and demonstration held by the Las Vegas Fire Department in the Nevada desert. What I liked most about this was that when you go to the video it is large and in your face with excellent quality. It’s big, loud and begs you to ‘Watch me!’ (Yes, I’ve managed to anthropomorphize Web pages, back off!)
Too often sites have their videos squashed into a tiny box along with the story. While many do offer a full-screen option, sometimes a near full-screen view as the default would better serve the piece. They way I see it, your organization paid the reporter or reporters to check out the story, film it and then paid your video team to edit and package the video. Why not play it up as much as you can? You’re paying these people for their hard work, show it off! The Las Vegas Sun is doing an excellent job of that.
The second thing I liked was that the Sun offers the video in a downloadable, MP4 format, in both iPod sizes and even in 720p HD. The effort may not see worth it now, but if people start downloading your site’s videos, sharing them and then word gets around that you offer these things on your site, the traffic will follow.
As an aside, I don’t know how much the complicated ownership structure the Sun has with the Las Vegas Review-Journal has to do with it (which I’m sure it does), but their site is refreshingly lite in ads. This may be a bad thing for them eventually in an increasingly revenue-centric model, but for now, it’s great.
I could go on and on about the Sun’s site, but I’ll let you decide. Check it out, they are a great example of design meeting journalism in a great way.
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24 Apr 08 ‘Suck on this’ Thomas Friedman
You may have heard that NYT columnist Thomas Friedman was recently hit with a pie at a speech he was giving. Yes, above is the video. The proof is in the pudding, or meringue perhaps.
Friedman has been under fire since an appearance on Charlie Rose where he summed up the War in Iraq by saying: “Suck on this!”
What does this have to do with online journalism? Nothing, it’s just rather hilarious. Carry on.
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22 Apr 08 Even ‘The Simpsons’ is sounding the bell
Via CyberJournalist.net:
Oof.
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21 Apr 08 Breaking News!
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Sorry, just thought we all could use a little injection of humor. This comes after reading a profile piece on The Onion by Virginia Heffernan in the NY Times. Best quote:
“If you can’t trust your shadowy overlords to keep a secret, what is the purpose of voting in a puppet democracy?”
Awesome. Back to your regularly scheduled program.
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13 Apr 08 News reporting can be dangerous stuff
Time for a little levity, though painful levity.
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