Sunday squibs

From the last couple of days (although I lost a couple when my browser crashed):

• GateHouse Video of the Week. Howard Owens has started what he promises to be more-or-less regular pointers to newspaper video produced at various Gatehouse newspapers. The problem with the first two is they don’t do much to advance his argument that newspapers can do video by putting low-cost cameras in reporters’ and photographers’ hands. They’re not very good, or interesting outside the local context. Let’s hope for better.
• Steady cam – handy cam combo. A little equipment news on the steady-cam front for those in search of an end to the jiggles.
• YellowPages.com introduces online video ad programs. Was a time when the Yellow Pages were an annual nuisance on the ad sales front. Newspapers need to be playing in this space.
• Not dead yet: the newspaper in the days of digital anarchy. I pointed to a Guardian recap of Bill Keller’s London speech a day or two ago. This links to the full text and it’s well worth spending some time and thought on.
• The citizen videographer’s quandary. A Toronto Star piece that pokes around the legalities and ethics involved when ordinary folk turn their vidcams on news events.