Tuesday squibs

I’m getting to the web late, after spending most of the day working through more Final Cut Express exercises. These piled up while I was hard at work:

• Newspaper shares mixed after chains report April numbers. As we’ve come to expect with monthly business reports, there are a lot of numbers that start with minus signs.
• Every Newspaper Journalist Should Start A Blog. Scott Karp says the new media revolution should empower the reporters who have powered old media, too. Good advice.
• KFC goes UGC. Everything else has been disrupted, why not the creative ad business? KFC has built a commercial with videos from YouTube and other services.
• Follow the Ball. Stewart Pittman has some comments on a local TV station seeking out sports shooters among the amateurs.
• I’ll have the Pasadena Pasanda please…and a large glass of outrage. Inksniffer is not that upset by the idea (since abandoned) of having Pasadena city council covered by journalists in India, given the established standards for covering such meetings.
• Newspaper Blogs: Quantity vs. Quality. The Bivings Reports’ Erin Teeling looks beyond the numbers to see what’s up with some newspaper blogs.
• Sanyo offers waterproof digital camcorder. Not strictly journalistic, but how can I not point to news of a $500 handheld shooter that will shoot up to 10 hours of 640×480 video at 30fps up to five feet under water.
• CNN, Internet Broadcasting. Someone more tuned into TV than I am can probably explain what the combination of CNN and the company that publishes TV web sites means, but it seems to me to be significant.