Chuck Fadely’s Newspaper video group continuously throws up some fantastic stuff. If you have even a passing interest in video (especially if you’re in the states) then you should be on it.
A kind of Chatham House Rule exists so I tend not to cross post stuff but a thread popped up that caught [...]

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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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For me, one thing that sets the image slideshows apart from video is the quality of the image. I don’t mean pixels or resolution but the surface quality. One obvious manifestation of this is the use of depth of field.
Of course the mediums are different and the mechanics mean you don’t always get the same [...]

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Poynters Pat Walters has posted extracts of  a dinner conversation with Joe Weiss, the creator of the ubiquitous Soundslides.
Weiss’ words reveal a journalist whose skill as a software developer appears driven by his passion for innovative and powerful storytelling.
He has some interesting things to say that relate to the video vs. slideshow debate that went [...]

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