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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Phillip O’Connor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sent me a link to a multimedia package they produced called Reporting for Duty.

It’s a neat package that follows the fortunes of recruits going through Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. One section in particular, The Squad, caught my eye.
It uses a little animation [...]

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Another event of interest to everyone involved in digital storytelling
The Department of Journalism at Uclan is about to launch MELD
MELD is an ideas-generation and development workshop bringing together journalists and interactive designers to tell stories in ways we haven’t thought of yet
Selected journalists will be paid to join new media practitioners at a five-day residential [...]

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The BBC’s religion and ethics show Heaven and Earth has launched a competition of sorts encouraging viewers to send video of their inspirational places to the show. The ‘novelty’ is that they hoping to do this via youtube.
You can see the appeal for films in the clip below which is worth a watch (no, [...]

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The NUJ have announced a commission on multi-media working.
NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear said: “This is a time of great change and opportunity for our members if the transition is handled well.
“However, there are challenges that the union will need to meet as working practices throughout the industry are affected by the rapid [...]

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David Dunkley Gyimah makes a plea on journalism.co.uk to use the growing data capacity of broadband for more innovation.
The latest chapter of the ‘what to do with broadband’ soap opera is upon us but already it would appear the script is wearing thin.
Television Networks and publishers eager to enter and go beyond Web 2.0 are [...]

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The European Journalism Training Association has released a handbook aimed at those training journalists to work in multiple mediums.
The “Tri-Medial Competences in Local Journalism” is a three-part publication created to train European journalists to work with converging print/audio/video mediums in the age of the internet. The publication includes a curriculum manual discussing convergent-media competencies, a [...]

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