Saturday squibs

Up earlyish and at it for another day.

• Top Ten Mistakes of Rookie Filmmakers. This post is aimed at those who make docs, but there’s a lot in here for newspaper video shooters, too.
• themediamanager.com: a journalism blog and resources. The Vancouver Sun, the city’s biggest daily, was slow to the multimedia table but it’s starting to take big steps, including this blog from editor Kirk LaPointe. His new site comes complete with categorized links to news, media management, research and more. Via The Canadian Journalism Project.
• Hey, the cloud took all my data! A cautionary tale about how your online life can disappear. Backup, backup, backup applies as much to the cloud as it does to down here on earth.
• Drake Basketball on Vuvox. Vuvox is the stil-in-beta technology I pointed to a while back, for which I received a beta invite that I still haven’t had time to use. Daniel Sato has had time and has produced a nice look back at Drake University’s basketball season. Rather than containing the story within Vuvox, it serves as a nicely-designed, scrolling index to the Des Moines Register’s text and photo coverage and it opens with a great piece of video. Once Vuvox goes into wide circulation, I suspect we’re going to see it drive a lot of innovative storytelling.
• Facebook: The rival to newswire services everywhere? Helen Walters at Business Week delve into Facebook’s terms of use and finds that all-too-common internet legalese that appears to grant Facebook the right to do whatever it wants with your stuff, including make money off it. I’ve written about these terms of use agreements, which I doubt many people read, before and think this is an issue that needs to be more broadly publicized and discussed. At very least, you need to be careful with your stuff in the social media age.
• No topic is so surrounded by myth as the golden age of the press. A nice, long, meaty read at the Guardian. It’s abut British media in particular, but a lot of it resonates on this side of the Atlantic, too.
• The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought. Scott Karp starts with this… “But the convenience argument seems to float on the surface of a deeper issue — there’s something about the print vs. online dialectic that always seemed superficial to me….” and goes from there. Interesting thoughts on how we inform ourselves, fueled by his own preferences and peanut butter.