A piece in Press Gazette on the uptake of video by newspapers has caught the attention of a number of people in the jblogashpere.
Andrew Grant Adamson has a problem with the accents
When people from around the world visit a British site they are looking for a distinctive and different voice. Globalisation should not mean an [...]

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Cyndy Green and Howard Owens have been exchanging comments about sound on video. Cyndy’s original view being that audio is one of those things that needs to be done ‘right’, Howard’s main point being that it isn’t the kit but the training that will make audio ‘good enough’
I’m still getting my head round the finer [...]

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Having finally got my hands on a copy of Press Gazette to read the blogger piece - lengthy posts! – I read a great little piece on The Croydon Advertiser’s use of slideshows.
They report that The Advertisers Picture Editor and Chief Photographer, David Berman, has been using Soundslides to create multimedia slideshows of some [...]

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Various meetings and classes this week have pushed the impact mono-medium mindsets and publishing practices are having on the industry to the front of my thinking. It became particularly clear in the debate about media brands surviving in the brave new world of digital and I’ve been thinking about how it all fits together.
This is [...]

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The Journalism Leaders forum on Media Mashups and brands was an interesting evening.
After more than an hour and half, we hit ‘pause’ – not ‘stop’ - on the provocative 5th Journalism Leaders Forum discussion on the challenges facing traditional media in the Web 2.0 Age.
You can catch up on the debate with a recording of [...]

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I’m in print!
Having been contacted by Press Gazette for a mug shot, it seems I’ve found myself in better company than I deserve.
The piccy came from Martin Stabes website (hope that’s okay Martin?) and you can get the full story there.
The spread includes profiles of Greenslade by Roy Greenslade, Wordblog by Andrew Grant-Adamson, Adrian Monck, [...]

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The Belfast Telegraph has become the second Irish paper to take the dive in to newspaper video and unveil a TV news bulletin on their site according to Press Gazette.
The Belfast Telegraph launched an internet TV station this week, two weeks after competitor The Irish News did the same.
The article continues:
Editor Martin Lindsay said: “Belfast [...]

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A few things that caught my eye that either relate to what I’m teaching/training at the mo…
Jeff Jarvis explains why he thinks there is a need for a measurement summit
I think it’s time for a measurement summit: Bring together the measurement companies, the advertisers and their agencies (buyers), the sites’ reps (sellers), the media sites, [...]

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