A great post over at Martin Stabe’s blog that consolidates some of the thinking about Simon Kelner’s ‘wait and see’ attitude to the web.
Kevin Anderson takes the debate back to basics with a great comment:
Martin, there is a strategy and then there is the appearance of a strategy. That is to say most often digital [...]

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If you think that it’s just TV and newspapers having the video discussion then think again. Mike Mullane’s post, at Multimedia meets radio, shows that the debate echoes across the industry – even in radio
Managing change is always a serious challenge and nowhere more so than in a radio newsroom. Journalists are a conservative lot: [...]

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A fair bit of press for Simon Kelner’s ‘cautious luddite’ attitude to technology, as highlighted in a recent interview with the media guardian.
Rather than poke a stick at the more obvious parts of his gruff, ink-stained editor stance, which seems to me to be as much about image as substance. I thought his view of [...]

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Interesting advice on attracting multi-platform savvy people from Alan Schulman, Chief Creative Officer of Brand New World (via MediaPost)
As always, talent right out of school comes to the industry through very different doors. Some from design; others from typography, animation or illustration. Some from film school; others from journalism school. The difference is, few if [...]

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Two great responses to the question ‘How long should online video be?’ from the Newspaper Video list.
Davin McHenry from Bakersfield.com says:
The only limits we have here in Bakersfield are: If your video is over two minutes you have to have another editor watch the video and suggest possible cuts.
I think blanket limits are [...]

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Steve Outing talks about Newspapers in an unbundled world in an article over at Editor and Publisher
The whole article draws a number of parallels with the changing distribution and business the models the music industry deal with and the problems newspapers are facing.  Steve highlights ways that we can learn from the music biz’s move [...]

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Heres a great illustration (via Steve Garfield at Off on a tangent) of a simple v-logging workflow by Cheryl Colan

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Here’s a confusing one that someone could explain to me.
Journalism.co.uk reports on the discussion at the Westminster Media Forum where the issue of  regulation is on the table. According to Sven Egil Omdal, CEO of Norway’s Aftenbladet multi media there are a bunch of buccaneer online producers who are making life tricky for the mainstream [...]

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