In a great example of why I have no time management skills I’m going to interrupt the current series of post on regional newspaper video for a weeks holiday. So posting will be slow to no for a week.
The series will continue on my return
Your feed reader can have some peace and I will try and get some sun on my legs. Seem fair?
The iPhone wordpress app seems to work. Might mean that this stays home more…
Last in my (just invented) Day’o'screengrabs. Those of you using wordpress may have seen, via the dashboard, that Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence. Cue a lot of comments from Toyota driving reps.
From the screengrab above you can see that they haven’t quite got the excerpts sorted yet but it looks good.
Just in case you think Clarkson has goen green and is recycling old posts, don’t panic. It’s just the excerpts.
Image by thenez via Flickr
My department has an outpost in China and Matt (our man in china) sent word of a project based on Google groups that his students have been involved with called Life and Death, Love and Pain: Snapshots of Sichuan Earthquake
On the site, one of the people working on it explains the motivation for the work
we have started translating some stories about the 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan, China, where some of our hometown is. These trivial stories are not published by the mass media, yet they are all examples of admirable human spirit and emotion.
This included translations of chinese blogs and reports.
An interesting insight and worth a look
It’s been a while since one passed by but Adam over at one man and his blog has tagged me with a meme.
Do you still read magazines? Do you pick up a daily newspaper? Or have you moved entirely online. Andrew of Engagement 101 challenged me to list the three magazine I would subscribe to in printed form.
And then he passed the challenge on.
So here are my three (four)
Cinefex
Cinefex is a US magazine specialises in detailed articles about the special effects in movies. great pictures and in-depth text tells the story of how grown-ups can spend hours having more fun than is legal.
This taps in to the geek, kid and jealous wage slave in me. I would love to be doing this kind of stuff. Essential wish fulfillment and perhaps the very definition of niche magazine.
Sight and Sound
I love film. Normally the bolder and brahser the better – I like my film escapist. But unlike the bigger brasher film mags Sight and Sound is always consistently readable from cover to cover.
Mac Format
I like macformat because its a mac magazine in the sense that it’s glossy and nice but not as empty as those icreate ones and interesting but not as occasionally dry like MacUser. It’s a bit more hands- on. Although to be fair it would be close run thing. I’d pick up either at the newstand.
Private Eye
I do subscribe to this magazine (is it a magazine). It feeds my cynical world view and though it sometimes isn’t funny – please stop with the yobs and the premiershits already. – it is always an interesting read.
So there you go Adam. Tagged and bagged (without the celophane and annoyoning ads)
Whilst I have been away a number of videos of me have appeared on the web spouting various guff and bile about video.
First is a clip of me being interviewed at the DNA conference talking about video, video literacy and the rest (complete with funky intro music)
There are a number of interviews from the conference including this great one with Chuck Fadely
The second is a video interview on video I did for German journo and blogger Markus Hündgen.
Both of which make me reflect on two things:
picture by saltyseadog on Flickr
No, the title isn’t a move to push the blog in the popular gossip, chat an lifestyle magazine arena. I’m taking a holiday. Sunny (please, god, sunny) spain awaits. So little (if the wife doesn’t catch me) or no posting for a week or so.
Whilst I’m away there is another Carnival of Journalism hosted by the excellent Will Sullivan at Journerdism.
Posting has been light over the last few weeks as my teaching load has crept up and eaten head space. I need to get back in to the swing because the blogging opens up so many exciting opportunities.
The latest is an invite to be on a panel at the DNA2008 conference.
You can come and point and laugh as I sit on a panel on Tuesday afternoon called Newspaper video will die in 2008
2008 is the do or die year for online video in your media organization. In this session we will provide practical and strategic advice to make sure you don’t miss the boat on this one. How to use video, how to change staffing roles and expectations, the do’s and don’ts of online video.
If that has a familiar ring to it it’s because its one of my predictions for this year.
I’m lucky (and not a little freaked out) to be sharing a stage with Chuck Fadley and Michael Rosenblum which puts me one part in the thick of it and two parts out of my depth.
Scary stuff. You just spout this nonsense and before you know it you are in Brussels.
But it proves just how powerful this blogging stuff can be.
Blogging works
It’s a pause for thought for me as one of the things I’ve been doing is getting the students blogging. And it’s proving tricky trying to convince them that there is some value in it.
Some get it, some get on with it because they have too. Some just don’t see the point.
Maybe it’s because their world is busy enough that they don’t want to expand their horizons. Maybe it’s the fear of the great digital unknown. Perhaps the silo mentality that still exists in the industry still permeates and they have taken their allocation for a future medium has already stuck.
Please, Please please make it ‘print journalist’
Do I miss the bit when they sign up and go through that scene in Harry Potter where they where a magic pork pie sorting hat is placed on their heads and they are sifted in to mediums?Maybe I havn’t communicated just how quickly the digital divide is growing and how worried I am that they’ll be left on the wrong side.
Maybe I should be playing up the opportunities for world travel.
But while the opportunities are there, I’m going to enjoy it. So if you are at the DNA it would be great to hook up and try some of the beer.