I’m doing more training at the moment and whilst chatting about editing  I was reminded of a clip I had from Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe programme. As an intro to the impact editing has it’s pretty good and the reality show example is great. 
Someone else has uploaded it to Youtube so give it a watch [...]

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A great video from CommonCraft that explains  social networking (via Robin Hamman)
This video is focused on Del.icio.us, but you could also try social bookmarking sites like Magnolia or Furl.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU[/youtube]

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I’ve been away - down to Dorset to enjoy, amongst other things, Charmouth and its fossil beach.
Normal posting of rambling rubbish will resume when I get the sand out of my shoes.

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A wonderful piece of journalism comes via Ben Hammersley . It’s a story from the Paisley Daily Express about the joy riding antics of a local teenager.
As Ben says it contains “the finest middle pars ever written by man”
Neil Mcintosh comments
Now, on first reading you might think this is a terrible journalistic lapse. The [...]

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I have had a few mails about broken links on the site. When I swapped over hosts I forgot to swap over the way that post urls where displayed. update: I’ve now sorted this bit out
So, apologies if you have gotten a broken link. I’m sorting out a better 404 page and I’ve also added [...]

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A post about reputation management caught my eye over at the Innovation in College media blog.
Judging from frequent posts to the CMA listserv, more and more former students are attempting to get college media outlets to remove news items from their online archives.
In the post Bryan Murley cites a Washington Post article on companies that [...]

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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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