May
17
Items of note so far today:
- Either the Internet is changing, or my wife is turning into a total nerd. Rob Curley watches what happens on his wife’s computer screen and finds some valuable messages.
- Jonathan Rauch on politics, journalism, and mistakes. Jason Kottke passes on some of the highlights of an interesting interview. I particularly like the quote: “Trial and error is really the only thing in life that works ultimately over the long term.”
- Western student paper loses independence over spoof issue. A college newspaper runs afoul of the administrators and gets put on a tight leash. Of course, they can always go on the ‘net if distribution gets blocked. Via The Canadian Journalism Project.
- Are newspaper editorials a waste of newsprint, money, and the reader’s time? A PR Week article that suggests, in part, that the editorial may be passed its best-by date. Includes defense of the form from editorial writers. Via Media Bistro.
- BBC going Flash. Which means that I really, really, really need to make sure my students know how to produce good Flash video. Which also means that the spurt of video activity on the web over the last couple of years has led to an at least temporary leading format sea change, from WMV to Flash.
- A two-fer: Two recent posts from Mindy McAdams that online storytellers should read: Buying a point-and-shoot for video and Telling the story: When you don’t have it easy.
- One more two-fer. This one, two web sites, two posts, similar topics. Angela Grant: Reporters, not just photogs, can be videographers and Oliver Lift at journalism.co.uk: Photographers can work successfully with both still and video cameras.
- The Media Development Loan Fund. Vin Crosbie reports on a great project aimed at funding independent media in countries with repressive regimes.
- Adapt or die? Julian at Trinetizen takes issue with some of the claims being made about the need for newspapers to be early adopters of video storytelling.
