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Meet your new (Apple) mojo kit

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

New hosting options for college media

Way back in the dark ages of college online media (2006), I wrote a post outlining options for college news media to host their online presence. At that time, the options were very limited. There was College Publisher or some sort of host-your-own CMS set-up, the main variable being where the site was hosted: on-campus, on . . . → Read More: New hosting options for college media

iPad first impressions, CICM news podcast

Last week, I was able to talk via Skype with Dan Reimold of College Media Matters. We talked iPad, the ACU iPad app, and some news about CICM itself. hope you’ll listen. We’re thinking about continuing this, so let us know if you think we should keep talking or just shut up and blog. . . . → Read More: iPad first impressions, CICM news podcast

The Optimist iPad app: College media app could deliver more using device’s capabilities

As soon as the iPad was announced, Abilene Christian University was promising that The Optimist, the student newspaper at ACU, would have the first college news media iPad app.

A team of faculty and student researchers and developers from multiple departments at the university plan to have the Optimist ready for the iPad by the end of . . . → Read More: The Optimist iPad app: College media app could deliver more using device’s capabilities

TubeMogul simplifies video uploading to multiple sites

Tubemogul, a video hosting site, is a simplified way to publish your site’s videos online.

Unlike other video hosting sites, TubeMogul connects several video hosting sites to it, allowing editors to publish videos to several sites at once — including YouTube.

TubeMogul is easy enough to use as any other video hosting site and utilizes the same features. . . . → Read More: TubeMogul simplifies video uploading to multiple sites

Tagging & subcategories: organizing online content

A sample of a tag cloud

A major problem with any news site is the search engine. If users have troubles locating a specific story that isn’t a few clicks away, chances are they won’t revisit your site.

So what’s the best way to please your visitors who want to find that story that never appeared on . . . → Read More: Tagging & subcategories: organizing online content

Inside Vandy pushes multimedia packages

Vanderbilt’s InsideVandy has been pushing the envelope recently in their online offerings. While they’ve been doing multimedia for a while, they are starting to package their efforts into more user-friendly experiences.

Check out these attractive packages: A City Guide, with restaurant reviews and an interactive map; a history of housing package with 360 panorama photographs from different . . . → Read More: Inside Vandy pushes multimedia packages

Video camera guidelines: how much money?

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?

Video camera recommendations?

The Canon Vixia HF200

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve gotten a couple of e-mails asking for recommendations for video cameras. This post is for those who might be in the market for a new video camera for your media outlet. I’ll give my experience, but I’d appreciate input from others out there who have . . . → Read More: Video camera recommendations?

Google Wave first impressions

Wave – e-mail for the 21st century, or something

As part of my duty as the self-appointed new software guinea pig for college media, I was able to finagle an invitation to Google Wave from Andrew Spittle, one of the CoPress team (@andrewspittle on Twitter) and check out this “revolutionary” tool. There were a couple of . . . → Read More: Google Wave first impressions