Poynter Online has an interview with “Online Video expert” Travis Fox – his work also demonstrates a keen understanding of interactivity and Flash too, with panoramas and maps, and is well worth exploring. He’s certainly on my Heroes of Online Journalism list.
I’m still scooping my jaw from the floor after looking at the Herald-Tribune’s Flash interactive on how complaints about teachers are handled. Not only does this use Flash cleverly – particularly to illustrate the complex process through which complaints go (now try doing that in print), along with audio clips – but it’s integrated with a database so you can
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Here’s a conundrum thrown up by new media: if you broadcast a 3D replication of a cricket game, are you infringing the broadcaster who bought the television rights? That’s what’s happening with Cricinfo. New Media Age reports that its 3D cricket coverage “could undermine Sky’s rights” (subscription required): “Cricinfo … has developed an application that ties 3D animation to the
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Steve Smith, writing about mobile video in general (registration required), makes a very informed point about the attempts to ‘crack’ the medium, with some historical anecdotes. Here’s his summary: “Much of the technical and aesthetic experimentation in mobile entertainment may already have taken place in a Webisodic format that never took hold on the medium for which it was intended.
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Some insights into the workings of the BBC, UGC and online video from Shane Richmond’s latest post: “At a time when most newspapers, including this one, are trying to encourage user participation and comments on their sites, the BBC is questioning the need to host those conversations. “Instead they’re linking their content out to the likes of YouTube, Flickr, Technorati and
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The other week I gave students a brief overview of principles of recording audio for the web. One of these was ‘emotive audio’, so in order that students had something to edit in the second part of the class, I gave students 20 minutes to ask a stranger a question designed to elicit an emotive response, such as “What was
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A good example of audio being published online as part of journalistic transparency comes from The Guardian‘s Peter Mandelson-criticises-Blair piece: “The Guardian believes it reported his remarks about the prime minister accurately and fairly. But in order to give readers the opportunity to judge the issue for themselves, we have published the relevant, lengthy section of the interview.”
Jemima Kiss reports on the Association of Online Publishers web video forum, with a focus on advertising: “ROO Group executive director Robin Smyth had some pretty solid basic tips on incorporating video: add mini players within the site, embedded video in the site (that means not having a pop-up media player, like the iPlayer…), having a simple content management system,
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Ian Reeves’ second vlog builds on the quality of the first, inevitably moving from the general to the specific, with a fantastic dry sense of humour that makes it all very entertaining. His USP is his ability to capture online video and showcase it – this week it’s the Telegraph’s Business Report (boring but sells advertising), ITV’s surprisingly good online
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16 Ways The News Media Can Use Blogs
I like lists, and this is a great one – with linked examples to boot
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