The Editors Weblog has an interview with Foreign Editor for the Guardian, Harriet Sherwood, about its web first publishing policy.
The Guardian began its experiment with its foreign and business desks, each for different reasons: the foreign desk “because the world’s time zones make a nonsense of once-a-day publication once you have the means of a [...]

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An interesting article by Tim O’Reilly that aims to clarify what Web 2.0 is.
In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick Google AdSense
Ofoto Flickr
Akamai BitTorrent
mp3.com Napster
Britannica Online Wikipedia
personal websites blogging
evite upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation search engine optimization
page views cost per click
screen scraping web services
publishing participation
content management [...]

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The conversation about video and its uses online continues.(here and here amongst other places)
It has thrown up an interesting division between those who prefer picture/sound slideshows over video and vice versa.

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Mindy McAdams asks some questions of video online, prompted by comments on another post. A knee jerk response below but I will come back to question six in a later post.

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An article on Know More Media by Kimberlee Morrison, pointed me to an interesting debate has re-opened up on Newsvine around the ‘what is citizen journalism/journalism “ issue.
It’s measured and interesting debate, asking as many questions as it answers but I was drawn to Kimberlee’s input. Her post is in essence a reminder of news [...]

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I became a Mac convert through Final Cut Pro (I am a video editor in another life). Ever since I swapped over, through my day-to-day work, I have become more and more convinced just how suited the Mac environment is to content creation. So much so that I thought I would try and post as regularly as [...]

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Second life seems to be getting a lot of press at the moment. A tv station, embeded reporters and tales of millions to be made are all making the headlines. But one apsect of virtual life is starting to rub as technology blog Techcrunch point out.
This new trend of announcing news in Second Life is [...]

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I never thought I would say this. I have a touch of envy for some Microsoft software
Photosynth combines hundreds or thousands of regular digital photos of
a scene to present a detailed 3D model, giving viewers the sensation of
smoothly gliding around from every angle.
Photosynth Technology Preview Now Available
There are a few videos to watch about how [...]

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