Aug
27
I just noticed that of the 12 browser tabs I have open after a morning stroll through Bloglines, five of them are videos. Is the media world changing that much or just me?
- Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it. TV is nearing it’s iPod moment, Cerf said, which will end the traditional broadcast structure. Interestingly, that’s the second reference to “iPod moment” in the past week; the first was related to the future of newspapers. Do we have a new buzz-phrase to go alongside tipping point?
- 10 arrested in 2006 killing of Russian journalist. Few details yet, but we may finally find out who killed journalist Anna Politkovskaya. I recently read A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya, a collection of her journalism, and highly recommend it.
- Berton: Making the best of a photo-op. Paul Breton, writing in the London Free Press, has some advice for politicians who want to turn those stage-managed appearances at the day care centre or the farm into guaranteed front page pictures. Solid advice, but on the whole, I’d prefer it if the media simply boycotted those stage-managed events all together and stopped playing into the made-up “reality” of the political publicity process. Via The Canadian Journalism Project.
- Ebert: Disney’s wrong about removal of thumbs from show. You mean you can trademark and demand great gobs of money for a gesture invented either (a) by the Roman emperors or (b) 1950s B-grade gladiator movies? Good grief.
- Ex-Strib newsman raises $1.1M for launch of MinnPost.com. Local families and a foundation kick in big bucks for an online, not-for-profit daily. More than 20 journalists have already committed to the “paper,” which will feature an intriguing idea called posts: blog-like conversations between reporters and readers. Something to watch.
- Hotel Beaumont annex demolition video. Mark Hancock is having fun,mashing up video news coverage and music.
