Here’s a cool new site to ask and answer questions about video: VideoWTF? The site has great functionality. Anyone can post questions, answer other people’s questions, rank them, tag them, etc. It seems like there are some really knowledgeable people contributing to this site. Check out this one. I learned something new! a VideoWTF? Read Full Story

Regular readers may have noticed recently I haven’t been writing regularly. You may be wondering what’s going on! Or maybe not. But I’ll tell you anyways. For the past month, I’ve been getting accustomed to my new job! I was hired on Sept. 21 at Neighborhood Media, a company that runs online-only hyper-local news publications. I am fully responsible for all of the content on two of the sites: InstantnewsWestU.com and InstantnewsBellaire.com. I’ve been getting acc... Read Full Story

Here’s my second tidbit of the week, drawn from the Yahoo NewspaperVideo Group. Someone asked whether other newspapers had scaled back their video offerings. Chuck Fadely talked about what he and his colleagues have done at the Miami Herald: Hard news and sports drive our video traffic. We’ve abandoned the feel-good features that used to be the newspaper stock-in-trade. Never in a million years did I expect (or want) to be emulating TV, but that’s what we’re doing and ... Read Full Story

The Las Vegas Sun pulled the plug on 702.tv! The project, described as “a Las Vegas-based news and entertainment video Web site and television program,” has been canceled after only four months, and a number of staff members either laid off or reassigned. Norm Clarke, a columnist for the competing Las Vegas Review-Journal, first reported that half a dozen videographers were laid off on Tuesday. Clarke gleaned at least some of his information from postings on Facebook and Twitter. ... Read Full Story

Tracy Boyer is finished with her epic project documenting malnutrition in Honduras. She has produced a comprehensive multimedia project that includes text, photos, audio, video and an interactive graphic. First off, I was easily able to get through each segment and understand its contents. I learned things along the way and remained interested. The behind-the-scenes story Tracy tells about producing the piece is just as interesting. On-site production was extremely difficult during this proj... Read Full Story

Read a great critique of this multimedia package at Innovative Interactivity. a Multimedia package follows soldier through deployment Read Full Story

Shoot with your ears | NewsLab "Every picture should have a sound to convey the full experience of what it was like to be there. That’s what visual storytelling does best. But if you don’t capture crisp, clear natural sound, you can’t share that experience with the audience." (tags: video shooting training natural sound) YouTube Insight adds Cool New Discovery Analytics "YouTube is giving us all some more insight into what’s going on with our videos. They just boosted their... Read Full Story

Fall CICM internship program – applications now being accepted! | Innovation in College Media (tags: jobs internship cicm) Nielsen: Americans Consuming More Video "There's a ton of other information in the report, but it pretty much all leads to the same conclusion: We're consuming more video than ever on more platforms than ever. And we'll continue to do so." (tags: video audience report study research) Where can you take pictures? The Photographer’s Right. A s... Read Full Story

I received an email from reader Jennifer Finan a couple weeks ago that has really got me thinking. I can relate to her because I’ve experienced the same emotions time and again. Jennifer says: I get bored at the format I’ve seemed to fall into and I want to use some new ways to present stories. I often don’t have time to do several interviews or get hours of b-roll, but I want to make them more interesting, impactful and right now it just feels dull and I am even bored with ... Read Full Story

Ron Sylvester of The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle sent me the link to a video blog he produces covering the city’s courts. He publishes a video per day that show significant moments from interesting trials. Each post includes a paragraph of background info to explain what the video is about. Each video is about two minutes long, and as you can imagine, they show mainly talking heads of the defendants and judges talking about the case in court. Usually, talking heads are boring and do not mak... Read Full Story