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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything directly video related. Something that will be remedied over the next few weeks. In the meantime I wanted to point you to a PC only, free video editor called VideoSpin from Avid. Well technically it’s from Pinnacle, who are now owned by Avid.
It offers an impressive little [...]

Picture from Flickr user Huladancer
This has been sitting in my list of things to blog on, so with a bit of delay, here is an interesting bit of data from a recent report on digital journalism from a couple of PR companies.
[T]he study has uncovered a ‘40/40 Factor’ in action - 41% of respondents now [...]

Many of you may remember the Reuters MOJO project a while back that had an Nokia N95 at its heart. One of things that most interested me about the thing was the special audio adaptor that Nokia built for them. I remember at the time thinking that it would be cool to have one.
I don’t [...]

Last night I settled down with the wife and a bottle of wine to watch a film. Finding a film we will both sit through is tricky - men from mars, women from venus stuff you know. But we decided on The Kingdom.
Not a bad film but what really lifted it for both of [...]

Why am I always playing catch up? Not much chance to post over the last few days but I have been browsing around as usual and one of the things that caught my eye was something I wanted to give more space too than a simple Delicious bookmark
Mark S. Luckie posted an article on various [...]

This may be the most exquisite site I have seen on the web - and obviously I’m behind the game since it started in 2005. We feel fine is an aggregation of statements from blogs that contain the word “I feel” or “I am feeling”. It displays them in a number of different ways including [...]

Another nice post from Colin Mulvany as he continues to share his experiences of multimedia at the The Spokesman-Review.
In his latest post he talks about using all the talents on the newsroom to get the best out of multimedia. Especially when it comes to script and voice over.
When I look at the big picture, I [...]

A fantastic series of articles by Robert Patterson on the online efforts of Californian outfit KBPS during last years fires.  I was going to type reporting efforts there but it’s clear from the post that it was more than just reporting.
In the first part Patterson outlines how they made use of technology. Making use of [...]

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