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By Bryan, on September 2nd, 2010%
Update: Damon Kiesow responds at Poynter (see below).
Apple held their fall product announcement event yesterday. The iPod lineup got a complete makeover. The biggest announcement from a journalistic perspective – hands down – was the addition of video/still cameras to the iPod Touch.
While the Droid X and other Android phones duke it out with the iPhone . . . → Read More: Meet your new (Apple) mojo kit
By Bryan, on July 18th, 2010%
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“I don’t find it very comforting that there’s like a world of people who don’t agree with my feelings about my own show, but that’s okay with me. Like, I don’t have to feel good about that.
I feel like, you know, you make something, you put it out in the world . . . → Read More: Random quote: Ira Glass on comments
By Bryan, on June 9th, 2010%
Yesterday, the folks who run I Want Media (which I get in a digest form every day) held (yet another) panel discussion about The Future Of Media: 2010. Panel participants were: Dan Abrams, NBC News legal analyst; Josh Cohen, Google News senior business product manager; David Eun, AOL Media president; Jonathan Geller, Boy Genius Report founder . . . → Read More: Now you can know the future of media!
By Bryan, on April 15th, 2010%
My colleague Brian Poulter shared this video with me, and I’m passing it along for any enterprising young video-savvy photojournalists who might find inspiration for some cool storytelling.
Helicam with Canon T2i/550D over Whitefish from Jeff Scholl on Vimeo.
Testing out a T2i with 14mm lens at 720 60P. Rendered with 2.35 bars and 24 frames for fun.
The . . . → Read More: Canon SLR and an RC helicopter: cool video, news potential
By Bryan, on February 24th, 2010%
Recently, I was on a plane flying back to St. Louis from a two-day workshop at The Daily Toreador at Texas Tech. (I say 2-day – thanks to the airlines and the weather, it was a little less, but that’s a story for another time).
Thinking back on it, I just realized the feeling I usually get . . . → Read More: Opening up Pandora’s box
By Bryan, on February 13th, 2010%
I’m in St. Louis this weekend for the Mid-America Press Institute/Ill. Press Foundation “Innovation and managing change in the newsroom” workshop. You can follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #mpichange, or read articles at the mpinews web site.
Also, watch Monday for an announcement about our Spring . . . → Read More: MPI Workshop Mardi Gras weekend
By Bryan, on February 6th, 2010%
I linked to this site almost a year ago when I first discovered it, but I thought it was worth looking at again: xtranormal.com. The site allows you to produce an animated movie based upon the text you type into a script. It allows for various camera angles, characters, and actions. And, as with most online . . . → Read More: Xtranormal: in ur text, making it video
By Bryan, on February 4th, 2010%
The Canon Vixia HF200
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about video cameras. In the comments to that post, Kathleen Flores, adviser at UT-El Paso, wrote:
I’m considering the Sanyo Xacti. It is only $160 but has no microphone/headphone inputs. I want to get something inexpensive so that I can . . . → Read More: Video camera guidelines: how much money?
By Bryan, on January 28th, 2010%
Yesterday was a fascinating day in technology, as Apple unveiled another of its “revolutionary” products. I listened to Leo LaPorte’s streaming audio of the presentation and followed along with gdgt.com’s live updates.
I suppose this is the point at which I should weigh in and say how the iPad (horrible name) will either change publishing or be . . . → Read More: The iPad and College Media – first impressions
By JennaStaul, on January 17th, 2010%
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that upstart student blogs are challenging their more established newsaper counterparts.
The article takes a look at how fledgling blogs at many universities are causing headaches for campus broadsheets — scooping stories, attracting online readers, and not to mention wooing advertisers.
From the Chonicle:
… (Student blogs) are challenging student newspapers in Web hits, says Daniel . . . → Read More: Student blogs take on campus newspapers
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