Jul
30
I have a bunch of open windows, with interesting bits that break neatly into a number of topics:
Video/Audio
- Why Formats Don’t Matter: At Least, Not As Much As We Think. A nice, commonsense piece that tells why good video is about much more than the format you’re shooting.
- Learn Videography, Video Editing and Lighting. A great series of tutorials on making video. Via Angela Grant.
- Demystifying HDV workflows. I need to reread this closely, because it’s a little on the technical side, but it appears to be of high value.
- Everyone: Deinterlace Your Video Footage! More advice on how best to move the images from camera to the web.
- Reader Reports: Audio. Macintouch, one of the essential Mac sites, has an impressive collection of reader reports and discussions on just about every aspect of audio you can think of.
The Biz
- The decline of the daily newspaper. Kevin Drum’s musings about the trouble newspapers are in related the potential loss of the handful of newspapers that are covering the big national and international stories.
- Surprise! More newspapers bury their own bad news. Paul Gillin discovers that reporters and editors are forgetting to cut through the corporate BS when it comes to reporting on themselves.
- R.I.P. ASAP. Steve Yelvington, who knows a thing or three about reinventing newspapers, has some thoughts on the death of the AP’s online efforts to get the young uns reading.
- NowPublic Gets $10.6 Million For Crowd Sourced News. This is big news for a number of reasons: the amount of money, the news-gathering Now Public does, the fact it was founded and is still based here in Vancouver… I may have some thoughts on this later. Meanwhile, you can read some of the feedback on the deal at the link above, and here, and here.
- The news’ heavy hitters talk. Doug Fisher reports on a panel discussion that seem’s a bit state of the union and a bit wishful thinking.
- OJR article offers financial hope for hyperlocal. Tom Abate passes along what may hold some hope for newspapers.
Doing journalism
- Thou shalt not report odds ratios. The second post in a series over at Language Log, aimed at improving the quality of medical/science reporting. This isn’t just for journalists; it for those who consume the news, too.
- Implied consent… Cyndy Green takes a look at the rights — and wrongs — of doing the public interview. It’s based on American law, but the principle of being very upfront about what you’re doing holds everywhere.
- Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has a NYT blog investigating the hidden truth of photographs. This post deals with the needs for words. Thought-provoking stuff.
