I’m involved in two days of an exciting Meld project and as part of that I am showing ( or may mention) a number of bits of technology and services. I needed a place to put the links to access them and thought I would share them here.
It’s all stuff that has made me [...]

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In the UK we seem to have a bit of a plague of TV programmes offering the 100 best of this or the 100 worst the other. So I’m a bit nervous of anything ‘listy’. But Mashable has a list of news sites they call a News Toolbox,  that I think is worth a look:
Everyone [...]

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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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UPDATE: Mark Hamilton has been playing with the links and got it working in wordpress using a plugin that allows you to use Javascript in a post. He has a map up based on his favourite coffee shops. Great stuff.
If you are looking to get more control over your data then there is a great [...]

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I’m playing with Google maps at the moment. I need to get my head round it so that I can start to add it to my teaching in a coherent way.
I’m in the process of building a world map of newspaper video - a grand title I know. It’s an exercise in getting php, xml, [...]

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Now you can put a voice to the name and face. Mindy McAdams has posted three 10 minute screencasts/tutorials that give you an overview of the basics of flash.
If you are asking ‘who’s Mindy McAdams’ then shame on you. When it comes to flash for journalists. she wrote the book - literally. It’s called Flash [...]

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As I said yesterday, it’s been busy at Dickinson mansions so I’m catching up on reading as much as anything else at the moment. Here is some of what has caught my eye: (cue Journerdism style long post)
Vlogs
Ian Reeves continues to entertain with his Vlog on all things video journalism
More cams on the street [...]

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Posting has been light for the last week or so, not because I’m upset about being referred to as part of the ornery print brigade which would have my print colleagues in the department wetting themselves with laughter, but because it’s been pretty busy work wise.
I’ve been up to my neck in video training for [...]

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