Posts under ‘Tech Talk’

Image via Wikipedia The New York Times is reporting that the electronic newspaper will make its appearance next year.
The device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the Sony eReader and Amazon.com’s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corp. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book […]

A few people have asked for screenshots of our online photo request system. Screen shots don’t really do a good job at showing what the system can do so I created this short video.

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click the link to open the quicktime file: APS
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

UPDATE: Rich Cameron has a few ideas for ways to use Sprout Builder. 
Sprout Builder is another site that lets you create simplified multimedia projects and embed them into a website or on a weblog. The controls are relatively easy to understand (as compared to Flash). Here’s a sample widget I created a few minutes ago:

Sprout […]

Adobe just launched their free online version of Photoshop. Here’s a post from TechCrunch that talks in a little more details about the site.I tried to get a log-in this morning, and it took over an hour to get the verification e-mail. Also, I could not get the interface - a Flash-based interface - […]

This spring, Adam Drew from University of Texas at Arlington was one of the attendees at our workshop in Nashville. We spent a good part of Friday night talking about content management systems and the way the Shorthorn put their content on the web. The Shorthorn has always hosted their own site (since 1997), but […]

I’ve been meaning to write a post about the new College Publisher “Ingest” video upload tool that is the key to CP’s Roo-based video functionality.
Fortunately for me, the folks at CP have produced a screencast that walks through the process. Check it out. For those of you on the CP platform, this is definitely something […]

Megan Taylor, who’s spent far more time with Splashcast than I have, has found some great uses for mixed media RSS feeds, including breaking news coverage and collaborative news networks.
I’m thinking of putting some of our recent innovation interviews into the Splashcast stream as well.
Previous coverage of Splashcast.

In our continuing effort to clue our colleagues in to the latest innovations and web-based media gear, I’ve created a Twitter account for the CICM. (blame Jack Lail and Rob Pongsajapan if you must)
What’s Twitter? Good question, and good luck trying to describe it in a few words. Basically, I’d call it a text-messaging social […]

Here’s an interesting web site: NGO-in-a-box Audio Video.
It is a collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools, documentation and tutorials that introduce you to the world of FOSS and the low-cost technology that is transforming the balance of forces in the realm of media production.
Many of the software tools are probably familiar, but […]

Mark Hamilton pulls back the curtain on his newly finished mobile journalist pack. It’s a good breakdown of some tools to consider.
With the exception of the laptop, everything fits in a bag that is smaller than the one I used to carry around with two SLR camera bodies, six lenses, flash, etc. Even with all […]