Now you can put a voice to the name and face. Mindy McAdams has posted three 10 minute screencasts/tutorials that give you an overview of the basics of flash.
If you are asking ‘who’s Mindy McAdams’ then shame on you. When it comes to flash for journalists. she wrote the book - literally. It’s called Flash [...]

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A sad, poignant but vital post by Paul Conley (via Bryan Murley at ICM) which put’s an interesting slant on the march to web first newsrooms.
Many of the journalists I know have adopted a strange, delusional vision of their value. I could say that they are in a state of denial. But that hardly describes [...]

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After a quiet few weeks - video training and a trip to N.Ireland – I’m catching up on my reading.
A post from Paul Bradshaw caught my eye. He seems to have acquired the formidable skill of sniffing out ‘bad’ online video. His previous benchmark ,The Bolton News, has been usurped:
The bar has just been lowered [...]

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I’m in the middle of teaching more newspaper people the joys of video at the moment. They are out shooting and when they get back they will be gently introduced to Avid.
So,considering I’m a about to launch in to a day of how to use Avid, I feel a bit guilty (and not a little [...]

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You know when you have one of those days?
I had one yesterday.
It ended with me leaving the phone ringing to Pipex support in the vein hope that the beeping phone would simply annoy anyone near it to the point of madnes, even if they weren’t going to answer it! I tell you, Pipex telephone support is [...]

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A researcher call Benjamin Gotts from the University of Aberdeen got in touch recently and asked if I would take part in some research he is doing:
Drawing on previous arguments that weblogs or ‘blogs’ are a new ‘postmodern’ form of journalism, I am looking to understand how ordinary citizens, empowered by digital technologies that connect [...]

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As I said yesterday, it’s been busy at Dickinson mansions so I’m catching up on reading as much as anything else at the moment. Here is some of what has caught my eye: (cue Journerdism style long post)
Vlogs
Ian Reeves continues to entertain with his Vlog on all things video journalism
More cams on the street [...]

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Posting has been light for the last week or so, not because I’m upset about being referred to as part of the ornery print brigade which would have my print colleagues in the department wetting themselves with laughter, but because it’s been pretty busy work wise.
I’ve been up to my neck in video training for [...]

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