Jan
24
Interesting media-related items from the web:
- The Video Advertising Pie Just Shrunk. I hadn’t thought of this, but Scott Karp has: embedded and widely-spread video from politicians (such as Barack Obama’s presidential announcement) cuts into the need to pay for advertisements.
- Visual Communication And Online Image Editing Tools – The Best From Sharewood. A round-up of online editing tools from Robin Good which raises the question: whither on-computer software?
- From Blog to Glossy. Congrats to Stewart Pittman, cameraman and video journalist, on having his first article published. Even in the age of online media, there’s still something special about that first byline enshrined in ink.
- Are photographers real journalists? A provocative question asked, and well-answered, by Diego Goldberg, a photojournalist, in the latest issue of Enter, the online publication of World Press Photo.
- GroundReport splits revenues with contributors. A citj site that splits its ad revenues with all those providers of user-generated content. A sign of things to come? Related: Earlier this semester, I suggested to students that instead of posting their videos to YouTube, they consider Revver, which slaps ads on the end of users clips and shares the revenue with the creators. Today, one of the students who did that, reported he’s made $11 so far. Not a salary, but enough enough for a couple of pints.
- Update 1:Getting Paid: Sites that Help Video Producers Make Money. Somewhat related to the above. Not for the average cellphone videoshooter, but opportunities for the dedicated.
