Ten ways to make your photos better « Mastering Multimedia Colin's giving great advice! Read it all. (tags: photography tutorial) a links for 2009-11-12 Read Full Story

Until about two months ago I really didn’t know what would happen to my journalism career. I had put it on pause so I could move to the same city as my fiancee. I took a job in another industry and spent a lot of time missing journalism. Finally that job ended, and I was unemployed for several weeks until I found my current job working for an independent hyperlocal news site. My luck has opened my mind to new possibilities in my chosen career, and I’ve also learned a huge lesson. ... Read Full Story

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

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

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

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

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