All about video

I may never blog again…

August 6, 2009

…because I’m having so much fun with the Publish2 WordPress plugin…
A roundup of things I found interesting so far this week:
Obama And Helen Thomas Celebrate Their Birthdays

UpTakeVideo | August 6, 2009
Can’t believe she didn’t get a question in about health care reform while she had him there.
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition
Brand New | August 5, [...]

At IdeaLab: Paul Bradshaw on crowdsourcing investigative journalism

June 4, 2009

Over at IdeaLab, I’ve been way past deadline for a post, after (again) making all sorts of promises about helping out more over there.  Until now.
After playing the modern equivalent of phone tag (Twitter DMs and e-mail across two operating systems and one ocean) for a week or so, Paul Bradshaw and I landed [...]

October Carnival of Journalism: How to move the needle in your newsroom today

October 18, 2008

Journerdist-In-Chief Will Sullivan hosts this month’s resurgent Carnival of Journalism, asking the following:
“What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?”
I’ve mentioned some incremental steps you take to grow a little revenue at a time recently, and there’s a list of free or cheap tools for online news sitting [...]

My obstacles to innovation question, abandoned and rediscovered

September 11, 2008

From my living room at the crack of dawn on Sunday, getting ready to catch my flight to SNDVegas, it seemed like a good idea to give myself a reporting assignment.
I said that I would ask lots of people a question, on video, and post their replies.
Well, fail.  Epic fail.  Why?  Because, frankly, I was [...]

The question I’m going to ask everyone at SND and APME

September 7, 2008

I’m off in a few minutes to the airport to SND and APME in Las Vegas for a few nights.
Here’s the plan I’m cooking up for a little video interview project:

Carry my point & shoot camera.
Ask lots of people I meet to answer one question on video.
Post all the answers.
Edit together the best into a [...]