Mmm. Technical sound stuff. And Chipmunks.
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How to correct the Chipmunk Effect in the PodPress Flash player · Andy White’s Blog at Summit Solutions
Nov 30, ’06
11:35 PM
PodPress
Nov 2, ’06
3:55 PM
This is the solution for embedding some stuff in WordPress posts – Flash stuff doesn’t seem to be working consistently. Sticking with KFE.
GigaVox Media, Inc. » The Levelator™
Oct 2, ’06
4:29 PM
A new free audio tool from Doug Kaye of IT Conversations. Looks useful.
Some Hot Recorders for Those Cool Podcasts – New York Times
Sep 21, ’06
9:05 AM
Reviews of the $400+ high end set of portable recorders out there.
New Media class at SJSU
Aug 22, ’06
10:35 AM
Journalism 163, taught by Steve Sloan and Cynthia McCune (at least one section – are there others?), opens for business at SJSU this week. It’s hard to give this thing a name, and I don’t want to contribute any more than I already have to the handwringing and head-scratching over what it should be, or how it should be taught, but I’ll just call it a New Media class and leave it that.
I recommend you take it, friends, that I do, and wholeheartedly.
Why?
I’ll let Scoble throw a simple answer at you:
“The skills journalists will need in the future are going to be a lot more varied than just churning out good text. The better journalists are going to understand how to do that, create illustrations (or at least rough drawings that an artist will be able to take and fill out), capture audio, photos, and video, and edit all that together to tell a compelling story on the Web.”
Still not convinced?
Had a job interview lately?
At your next one, try telling the recruiter you can shoot photos, video, know html and css, produced a podcast for the student newspaper, and just started learning Flash.
No, I haven’t done all those things either, but this class is a great start.
There’s already a class blog set up for J163, and here’s a short podcast where Steve and Cynthia talk about what they’re up to.
Will the real newspaper video model please stand up
Jul 30, ’06
9:21 AM
What kind of video do you want in your online newspaper?
Broadcast-style stand-ups? Afternoon reports from the newsroom? Snarky into the camera videoblogs from your columnists? Straight news packages?
Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism has been talking about this all month, drilling down on things like the fancy new HD cameras that will let photojournalists shoot video and just pull the high-quality stills they want from there.
Yesterday, she pointed out Cade White’s efforts to get into the field and find out how pros are dealing with newspaper video. Cade followed a photog to a shoot that led to this cool bartending trick.
Okay, so here we have another category of video for your online newspaper, and I’m a bit of a fan of this one: supplemental content.
That’s right, I think blogs, podcasts, and video should all be supplemental content when it comes to newspapers.
Video is a great example of this: No one really wants to sit through half an hour of a city council meeting or a talking head interview or a panel discussion when they came for news and maybe entertainment. Hosting that sort of thing in a searchable archive is nice, but I’d rather be reading a story online and see a package of links in a box, one of which is an image that leads me to some relevant and interesting video.
A blog or podcast can be a topical, focused way to get more information to your readers about your beat. Does it mean more work for you? Maybe. Does it mean driving readers to your brand that wouldn’t have stumbled upon it otherwise? Surely.
And that translates, bluntly, to more eyeballs on your advertising. Because in the news business, page views still matter, although getting respect and Attention (with a capital A) for your brand gets more important with every link.
Rough Guide Podscrolls: Travel Guides on your iPod
Jul 17, ’06
10:57 AM
A few “eating & drinking” city guides to key world locations. Load them onto your iPod and you won’t need to lug the guide book out every time you go trawling for a pub.
More talk about new media classes
Jun 6, ’06
12:28 PM
Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School.
I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy Editing & Design class trains the print editors.
That means students need to learn a drop of html and css (which playing with a blog template will help teach them), a bit of audio and video editing (which producing a podcast and video podcast will take care of), and some experience setting up and running a content management system.
That last part, of course, requires some content. My suggestions? A bit of integration with other classes in the department. Edit and post articles written by students in the 61, 132, and 134 journalism classes. Post video produced by broadcasting students. In later semesters, when there’s some sort of class that teaches coding and design for online news, post the Flash animations, slideshows, and graphics.
One more thing – keep the class open to public relations and advertising majors. They need these tools, too.
BuzzMachine » ‘casting
May 24, ’06
9:25 AM
Jeff Jarvis reports on a London newspaper podcast transmitting content to commuters via Bluetooth at train stations.