Jul
24
From the ‘net so far today:
- Canada: Newspapers launch mobile sites. Mobile is the next big challenge for newspapers, but it will be slow coming to Canada because….
- Uncompetitive Canadian Pricing Threatens Mobile Internet. Michael Geist has details on the exorbitant fees Canadian cellphone users are charged for accessing data.
- Netherlands: Free dailies considered by most to be a quality product. I’m not sure a similar survey in the local market would produce the same results, but this is interesting.
- Video boot camp: The hands-on bits. More from Mindy McAdams about her latest learning experience.
- US: Sacramento Bee to launch video “letters to the Editor.” Why should the journos be the only ones having all the fun with the video cameras? In a YouTube age, this is a smart move.
- A newsprint-loving, blogging editor regrets... A Roy Greenslade post about an editor’s lament draws a few interesting comments.
- Slideshare Adds Audio Synchronization. Yet another online tool that appears to bear some playing with.
- Video: Inside the surge. I found this incredibly powerful video about U.S. soldiers in Iraq, from The Guardian’s Sean Smith, through Angela Grant and have watched it twice: once for the content, which is horrifying and moving, and the second time for the editing and shooting techniques which give the piece its power.
