Colin Mulvany has a great post (and nice examples) on his blog highlighting the benefits of using your archive pictures for slideshows. It came off the back of a comment commending the Spokane Review for a piece looking back at 40 years of snow.
Colin points out how easy these things are and how popular they can [...]

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Still playing catch up on the feeds at the moment but had to post on this just so that I don’t lose it in a see of bookmarks
Twenty Days: Lot’s of people picking up on this one, and rightly so.
Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the [...]

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I’m getting better and better and resisting gadgets (apart from my i-phone purchase this year). But a little technology porn for the weekend never goes a miss.
So here goes.

Camera add ons from Redrock micro

Lots of people getting excited about these Ipod based recording solutions - Podcast and music/studio recording.

Pinnacle Video Transfer allows you [...]

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The folks at journalism.co.uk are giving away “some exceedingly attractive handmade Sandstorm Kenya travel bags in the New Year”. But as Oliver points out:
… we’re not just going to give them to any email-capable old Herbert. No, we want a little something in return.
That little something is evidence of innovative online multimedia use to [...]

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This post is my contribution to the inaugural Carnival of Journalism: I’m so thankful for the motivation to get this idea out of my head at last. Find out more about the carnival…

Last week I sat in on a presentation to a World Editors Forum study group. They came to the Department to hear [...]

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Forget about the newspaper loyalty card the newspaper loyalty phone is the future.
According to a report in Journalism.co.uk
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) has launched the world’s first ‘newspaper’ telephone to give users instant access to the paper’s online content.
The Nokia 6120 handset features a special DN button that gives subscribers direct access to the [...]

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I’m a geek. But you know that right?
So what was the last piece of technology that I bought? An iphone? A digital video camera?
It was a DAB radio.
I’m sat in my kitchen at the moment listening to a series called Mind Changers on Radio4
Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the development of the science [...]

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So, the responses to my second little survey about video have slowed enough for me to put out some results.
I tried to expand on some of the areas from the first survey that had caused debate, in particular points raised by the Newspaper video yahoo group. So here are some of the headlines just to [...]

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