» Mozilla\'s support of Ogg likely to help Flash?
Mar 18, 2010 8:38 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
Mozilla\'s support of Ogg likely to help Flash? http://bit.ly/d3sFQ3 Working on the assumption that Flash will be provided as a fall-back position for desktop browsers, Mozilla will keep Flash alive because it\'s unlikely that Ogg codecs will dominate. This is particularly likely now that Microsoft ha..
» Glass…
Mar 17, 2010 10:30 PM from VideoJournalism
Emu-cam (def) An Australian native; similar to the pinhole camera With the exception of the pinhole camera, every camera I\'ve seen has had glass of some sort to direct light to the recording media. Glass in cameras serves a number of purposes. Keeping dust out of the camera. Focus – focusing ..
» My bag over-runneth…
Mar 17, 2010 8:40 PM from VideoJournalism
For the past few years I\'ve been re-working my gear bag – what I carry around with me every day. First there\'s my “purse.” What I think it actually is, is a hunter\'s ammo bag. Roomy with compartments for my goodies (in addition to what normal folks carry)…the bullet loops ho..
» Jibjab Co-founders: Advertising doesn\'t work
Mar 17, 2010 6:42 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
Jibjab Co-founders: Advertising Doesn’t Work http://bit.ly/b7i4V0 Not for producing high quality produced product at scale. JibJab are best known for their “This Land” around the Kerry/Bush election. They abandoned advertising support a while back to concentrate on the ability to put you..
» IE 9 preview supports HTML 5 and fast Javascript
Mar 16, 2010 1:24 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
IE 9 preview supports HTML 5 and faster Javascript engine. Welcome ot the C21 Microsoft! http://bit.ly/bWUtnc Although the support is rudimentary at the moment, it\'s a good sign that we\'re heading for a standards-based future on the web.
» Newspapers: 55% PR and 90% copied?
Mar 16, 2010 12:19 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
Newspapers: 55% PR and 90% copied? http://bit.ly/9yOxUA And we want to preserve this why? Yesterday\'s post mentioned Australian research that suggested 55% of newspaper content was “Press Releases”. Well now the Neiman Journalism Lab looked into the reporting of major stories and found o..
» 55% of ‘news\' is PR driven
Mar 15, 2010 2:42 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
55% of ‘news\' is PR driven according to Australian study. http://bit.ly/bfbSTl No surprises there. 55% from press releases, 40% from AP or Reuters and very little original reporting in most newspapers. For the longest time the newspaper sold because of the movie listings, classified ads and st..
» HTTP streaming – What you need to know
Mar 15, 2010 12:29 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
HTTP streaming – What you need to know. Article at Streaming media http://bit.ly/aImXjT HTTP streaming was introduced by Apple for the iPhone and is now supported in QT X on Snow Leopard. What is it, how do you create it and where does it fit are all covered in this article.
» Metadata applied to more targeted delivery of advertsing
Mar 15, 2010 12:22 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
Metadata applied to more targeted delivery of advertising. http://bit.ly/cg1PfL Mmmm relevant ads are not as bad but they\'re still intrusive. I\'m a big fan of metadata and not a fan of advertising so I\'m torn! All uses of metadata strengthen the metadata infrastructure (make sure more metadata is av..
» People won\'t pay for news?
Mar 15, 2010 12:20 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
People won\'t pay for news??? ORLY? Those that won\'t pay never paid anyway. http://bit.ly/bUFuUk Survey released earlier today “proves” that people won\'t pay for news online. Alternate view says they already are or never paid for news offline. Papers that have paywalls are generally doing..
» Secret new product demo at MoPic NY March 17
Mar 15, 2010 12:01 PM from The present and future of post production business and technology
Secret new product demo at MoPic Wednesday night http://bit.ly/dBdO0e, Robust FCP media at last?? If you\'re can\'t make MoPic this Wednesday, the same advanced demo will happen at BOSFCPUG on the 24th and Digital CONNtent Creators on the 25th. Planning to release it at NAB. A significant improvement ..
» I\'m presenting my first East Coast Seminars
Mar 15, 2010 11:55 AM from The present and future of post production business and technology
How to grow your production business and How to grow and monetize an audience for your independent production seminars in New York and Boston.
» Local is the new black
Mar 14, 2010 12:27 PM from Terry Heaton\'s PoMo Blog
The essential digital problem for any media company with multiple properties is the inherent conflict between that which is centralized and that which is decentralized. I\'ve yet to encounter anybody who does it perfectly, so perhaps there is no perfect solution. But the problem is becoming more acu..
» Businesses are beginning to listen
Mar 12, 2010 10:51 AM from Terry Heaton\'s PoMo Blog
I can remember a few years ago when Jeff Jarvis went through his “ Dell Hell ” saga that those of us observing (Jeff, too) wrote about the day when businesses would actually pay closer attention to what\'s being said about them in the online world. Beyond paying attention, we wanted them..
» Social Media Guidelines
Mar 12, 2010 8:55 AM from Terry Heaton\'s PoMo Blog
Here\'s the latest in my ongoing series of essays, Local Media in a Postmodern World: Social Media Guidelines This week, Reuters became the latest company to release policy guidelines for the use of social media, and, once again, observers find their rules to be impractical, cumbersome and over-reac..
» Online surveys: Read the fine print
Mar 12, 2010 5:23 AM from RTNDA-RTNDA Blog
Advertising.com just released a study that says “a majority of consumers (62 percent) are viewing video online.” And it’s not just young adults watching user-generated stuff, the report says, but “69 percent are ages 35 and older with a preference for viewing news clips online.” I see this kind of ..
» Chasing the Financial Meltdown
Mar 12, 2010 5:23 AM from RTNDA-RTNDA Blog
KGO Radio’s Lynn Jimenez keeps listeners up to date on “Your Money” every weekday on KGO’s Morning News. She has been KGO’s business editor since January of 1990, reporting live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, San Francisco. Jimenez is also author of ?Se Habla Dinero? The Everyday Gu..
» A Rose by Any Other Name....
Mar 12, 2010 5:23 AM from RTNDA-RTNDA Blog
It has been quite a 2008. I was reminded of just how much change we’ve seen by the recent decision by our colleagues at the American Society of Newspaper Executives to put to a vote a name change, to the American Society of News Executives. ASNE also proposes new web-only membership, expanding beyo..
» RTNDF Scholarship Winner reports on Hofstra Debate
Mar 12, 2010 5:23 AM from RTNDA-RTNDA Blog
Kim Saltmarsh, winner of the RTNDF Presidents Scholarship is a senior at Hofstra University, site of the third presidential debate. Read about Kim\'s experience as a student volunteer at the debate.
» American Journalists in Germany: The First Week from RTNDF\'s RIAS Trip
Mar 12, 2010 5:23 AM from RTNDA-RTNDA Blog
Hear from JILL KONOPKA, reporter/anchor, WBRE-TV, Wilkes-Barre, PA, one of the American journalists on the two week RIAS journalist exchange. The two week trip gives 12 American journalists the opportunity to learn directly about Germany\'s culture, politics and practice of journalism.