Why tripods SUCK! : MultimediaShooter

I was recently surprised to find that my monopod had a hidden feature. Three tiny ‘tripod’ legs hidden in the bottom of the monopod.

(tags: tripods)

CHRIS ANDERSON’S NEW BEST-SELLER, ‘FREE!’ at WHAT’S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Watch this fascinating 22-minute interview with Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, by Charlie Rose.

Beginning blogging for journalists: Interact with your niche to find more readers! | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion

“It’s time to plant a few more seeds in your social web garden in an effort to generate true fans.”

The Evolving Newsroom: Better players make for better video

A couple of lines of advice about getting video to work on news sites from US photojournalist Colin Mulvaney, as found on Newsgang.

Video can’t win on production quality alone | Howard Owens

Howard picks out a video quality quote from “Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail”

(tags: quality videojournalism)

The Linchpen: Tips on doing Web video from Ricardo Lopez

Listen below to excerpts of advice Miami Herald visual journalist Ricardo Lopez (left) gave Greg Linch’s online journalism class on Feb. 28.

the exploding newsroom » Blog Archive » Still not sure what Twitter is?

Common craft do twitter. Yeah!

.: VideoJournalism Training

“The message from DNA according to the Executive I spoke to who’s at the forefront of shaping his international media organisation is that Training Matters. “

Andy Bull: This week, the futures look like this

Lots of different things, but we’ll still need editors to tell us what we need. Like the list but I think editors of the old school we’ll tell you what you need ilk is a long dead concept.

(tags: business free future journalism trends)

DNA 2008: CNN says no ‘mojos’ for five years : Journalism.co.uk editors blog

“There are always ways of looking at how we can condense what we put onto mobile, but at this stage I don’t think it’s necessary,” Chamberlain said.

Media08: Al Jazeera and new media. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos

Mohamed Nanabhay, head of new media Al Jazeera Network tells Media08 about their strategy

Mercury falling » Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on “the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view,”

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