Tuesday squibs (updated)

A couple of notes or interest before I dash out the door:

• GlobalVoices goes activist. David Weinberger points to news of the hiring of Sami Ben Gharbia to be a hub connecting anti-censorship efforts around the world. There’s a project to get behind.
• Archos 404 camcorder. In the tools department, this looks interesting: a 30GB music player/camcorder that records 640X480 video. No external mic (although there is a helmet cam as an accessory) and no details on the lens, but it’s apparently under $300 US. UPDATE 1: I should also point to the device some others are drooling over: Canon’s new HD video still camera combination. Looks cool but HD video tops out at 13 minutes with a 4GB card.
• Youtube stars migrate for moolah. Things continue to shake in the online video world: people making money, new players on the scene, and more. Interesting times.
• Old media, new media. A TV industry oriented look at where the jobs are going. Basically, away in old media; in in new media. New age needs new skills.
• Update 2: Phone snappers put squeeze on paparazzi. Should we be alarmed at the possibility of cameraphone-armed citizen shooters putting the paparazzzi out of business? Should we even care, other than in a very general sense of caring about the fate of fellow humans?
• Update 3: Are newspaper photojournalists an endangered species? Mark Glaser wants to extend the conversation, started a while back by Dan Gillmor and extended by a recent, interesting post from Alan Mutter. Drop by and leave a comment. PS: Hart has a good post on this, too.
• Voyeurism: Journalism’s 21st Century Crisis. I’m not convinced it’s a crisis, or that his summing up is the whole story, but Terry Heaton’s latest essay in his TV News in a Postmodern World series is worth the read.