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So far, in my little round-up of how the UK broadsheets are using video,  I’ve looked at The Times and The Telegraph. Today, for part three, I’m looking at the FT.com. (well as much of the FT as a free subscriber account will let me)
Platform.
The video is pretty easy to find on the FT.com. The [...]

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Driving 145mph M4 motorway
Some nice embedded ooooh video from This is Bristol. This is the kind of thing that drives nice spikes of traffic.
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Two excellent posts around Audio in my reader this morning, both from B&H video.
The first, via Peter at shooting by numbers, is called Getting the most out of your wireless system. Many people are using wireless mics in their video set up as, if noting else, it frees your hands up from holding a mic. [...]

Last Friday I started a round up of what the broadsheet newspapers are using video with a look at The Times.
The telegraph have been building their video in a similar fashion to the other broadsheets. Where the Times work the Murdoch angle with their Sky content, the Telegraph have relationship with ITN who provide a [...]

YouTube - ASPolice’s Channel
Avon and somerset police put stupid 999 calls online. Nicely cut and good fun. Thanks to Alison Gow for the heads-up
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I’m away for the weekend so I’ll leave you with this:

Hat tip to Robin Hamman for this

Here’s a nice little app to while a way some idle minutes. New York Design firm Bond Art + Science have come up with a little app called Blow Up that makes a nifty full screen slideshow of your public flickr albums.
You can try it on their site but best of all it’s also available [...]

You may have noticed an intense flurry of posting around here lately. I’m trying to break out of a dry spell of posting with shock tactics. Sorry if it’s you that’s shocked.
I mentioned yesterday that I would be focusing on video a bit more, and I am good to my word.
Here’s the first part of [...]

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