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I mean real beginners. If you have been blogging longer than a week or so please move along there is nothing for you here, you already know this stuff.
Actually I’ve been blogging a lot longer than a week. But all the blogs I have built in the past have essentially been marketing fluff - blogs […]

Theme of the week: “old media doesn’t turn in to new media when you put it on the web”. Somewhat counter-intuitively the most problematic medium to transpose for the net is television.
Short snippets of video where our hands stay on the mouse work fine. The net is well suited to watching a 2 […]

Any camera you buy today will produce images that rival those from 10 year old cameras costing 10 times the price.
Unfortunately the same is not true of audio. A $50 five year old minidisc audio recorder will produce better audio than any video camera under $10K.
The problem is cheap pre-amps, and it can […]

Both Google and Technorati have recently released new search engines for blogs. The technorati version seems to return more up to date results but google’s has some interesting options such as “email alert”, “add blog search gadget”, “subscribe to blog search feed”.

Assuming you are not a teenager, not chronically unemployable, and have cable as well as broadband - chances are that the real allure of web video lies out toward the end of the long tail.
You are looking for information you can use, and the value of that information has to justify the time you spent […]

# 21 - say it with grass. They could have printed a brochure, written a blog, or hired Bono - but to promote the global village gestalt Visit London decided to cover Trafalgar Square with turf.
Saturday the turf gets moved to London Parks, and millions of Londoners join the millions of New Yorkers who […]

Beachtek make a range of audio adapters that allow you to use XLR mics with video cameras that do not have XLR inputs. As a videojournalist do you need one?

1. “Be in the right place at the right time” aka The Zapruder Rule. If you can stay on the right side of this rule you can ignore many of the others. However much TV photographers howl there is a compelling logic to the notion that for breaking news the quantity of camera crews […]