Slow posting for the next week or so as real life keeps me away from a computer.
Normal service will resume shortly.

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According to Hold the Front Page Johnston Press have signed a deal with PA to:
[S]upply self-contained video clips alongside text, photographs and interactive graphics which will allow Johnston’s online editors to put together their own individual packages.
Later in the article:
Tony Watson, editor-in-chief at The Press Association, said: “This deal will allow Johnston Press to [...]

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The regional media are lining up to put the dampeners on the BBC’s plans to roll out their BBC local TV.
According to journalism.co.uk Andy Griffe, controller of BBC English Regions, has been trying to persuade Regional newspaper execs that they can ‘co-exist happily’ with the beeb.
But, predictably, they don’t agree.
Mark Dodson, chief executive of GMG [...]

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A new server and a new design. The last ‘re-design’ for a good long while and hopefully a more reliable service from the new box jockeys.
Fingers crossed.
If you find anything missing or something not working then please let me know.

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According to a poll by Harris Interactive (via Broadcast Engineering)
In Great Britain, 31 percent of British adults do not access online news sites with any regularity and an additional 28 percent of them only access them about once a week.
The survey asked “What are your sources for news and information today?” and found that [...]

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The Association of Online Publishers have announced four new categories for their Online Publishing Awards.

Use of video
Best podcast
Digital creativity
Online community.

Obviously the online video is pretty interesting to me and given the recent comment that video seems to generate it’s good to see awards embrace it.
So I was keen to see the criteria [...]

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Here is a great online app that lets you capture you screen, audio and all, and save it to a quicktime file.
It’s called Screencast-o-matic and it works across most operating systems as long as you have the right version of Java. The quality is slightly reduced to help playback but it’s a handy , cool, [...]

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