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Heraldnet’s Elaine Helm has been pondering the success of a video of the “King of Scandanavian Humour’ Stan Boreson performing ‘I just don’t look good naked any more’

Sometimes an article or video gains a life of its own after it’s posted. That’s what has happened with a video we posted Dec. 21 of local [...]

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos
A heads up via Mindy. This looks interesting
(tags: academic apps audio blog commentary digital education flash voicethread)

I hope this doesn’t break the cross posting rules of the Newspaper video list but I thought it was worth shareing this video from the Detroit Free Press.
It’s part of their coverage of an investigation in to Detroit’s mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. The accusation being he lied under oath in a cover-up involving the sacking of [...]

The Guardian, my weekend newspaper reading, landed heavy on the doormat this morning with a really good suppliment on making video.
Plenty of great practical advice (although the imovie tutorials are for ‘06) and camera advice that goes from phones to camcorders. There is also a good round up of formats by Dan Ghung.
In terms of [...]

Still playing catch up on the feeds at the moment but had to post on this just so that I don’t lose it in a see of bookmarks
Twenty Days: Lot’s of people picking up on this one, and rightly so.
Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the [...]

Be a multimedia McGuyver - 101 DIY tools and techniques audio and video gear on the cheap
Fantastic list with enough to keep you in DIY for years.
(tags: diy video)

Not more link bait. Although try putting iphone or Mac Air in to a post and watch Akismet go mental.
No, this was a post by Dennis Dunleavy which points to a photo essay shot entirely on an iphone by Mother Jones magazine Washington Bureau Chief, David Corn. And boy doesn’t it show just how ropey [...]

OK, that’s shameless link bait. But I’m generally disappointed with what appeared at Macworld.
Yes, the new laptop is nice. Yes, I’m sure it’s a breakthrough in engineering. But I’m also sure it will probably find that it gets most of its business as an option for those who where also considering a PC laptop as [...]

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