Kevin Anderson tips his hat in to the ring on the ‘online video not TV’ debate over at Strange Attractor.
I think at the end, the opportunity for video exists, not in replicating television, but in:

Taking advantage of the disruptive economic potential in pro-sumer video production, not in trying to replicate TV production methods.
Developing a workflow [...]

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To conclude todays video tinkering, here is an edited version of the clips from my Nokia experiment edited together in Eyespot - a free online video editor. Including uploading, it took 20 minutes. The video below is linked from their site - hence the cute buttons.

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How about a point and shoot video camera with an external microphone that is also a phone? Like the sound of that? Maybe your mobile phone is the answer.
Thanks to a relatively stress free house move, Dickinson towers is now Dickinson house, and I am back to blogging. Broadband at home is a [...]

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Shame on me for not seeing this earlier.
In response to Paul Bradshaw and Adrian Monck’s recent video comments, Alf Hermida weighs in. As an ex-BBC man he punches heavyweight:
What I find surprising is that the industry is still having this discussion. It reflects how people in broadcasting and print have failed to realise that the [...]

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There have been a lot of posts flying around this week about the good and bad of online video.
The New York magazine has been getting a lot of eyeball for its piece on video at newspapers, daring to dream that:
In a sudden reversal of fortune, newspapers have taken to online video and might just beat [...]

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On a more practical note for audio, I thought I would share a couple of the common audio issues that I see when working with people using video for the first time.
When recording
Use a tripod - Tripods reduce handling noise.

Step away from the camera. But not too far. - If you only have the onboard [...]

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Audio has been on my, and others, mind for the last few days. Robert Freeman left me a comment pointing to a post about The News of the World video of Des Smith, “the Downing Street advisor dramatically cleared in the cash-for-honours scandal “

On his blog, Robert doesn’t pull his punches –
The video was [...]

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My post on Mark Comerfords comments about fear and problems with a lack of digital illiteracy prompted a number of comments
Robb Mongomery posted a scary bunch of questions that he asks news executives:
Is your IT department under editorial control? Why not?
Has you boss ever blogged?, or hand-coded anything in HTML?
Have they ever posted a photo [...]

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