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Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet—Better, Faster, Easier by Mark Fraunfelder of boingboing
Full of really useful tips like this one:
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows […]

“Thumbnails are becoming pervasive on search results pages of Google, Ask, Yahoo! and on many customized search pages…. it turns out that thumbnails have become a powerful way to drive traffic to video clips.” more at beetTV

Noting the enormous costs incurred by traditional media newsrooms Michael Rosenblum has a suggestion:
Go over the local University. Get yourself a dozen bright and eager young journalists. They all have their own cameras and laptops anyway. And start your own local [online] news channel.
The one stop Michael omits is on the way back from the […]

Real Networks today announced the public beta release of Real Player 11. The player allows users to download any web video they happen to be watching. The player adds a “save this” button to any video playing in a browser. Multiple videos can be downloaded in the background as you continue surfing. The […]

Read/WriteWeb posts a summary from Supernova of a presentation by Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s Global VP of Sales and Operations entitled What’s next for advertising?
Surprisingly no mention of any Adsense for video. At the moment Google dominate video search through Youtube. But this situation is changing fast. The biggest here-now threat comes from AOL’s […]

“At Digital Hollywood last week, I conducted a 9-minute video interview with Thomas Wilde, the new CEO of EveryZing, formerly Podzinger. The company turns videos and podcasts into text files that can be indexed by search engines, and it lets users go directly to the part of a video or podcast that they’re interested […]

Online video creators are suffering from a similar malaise to that devastating the newspaper industry: a lack of advertisers willing to underwrite the content.

From Editors weblog: “Y BYD (’The World’) will be the first ever daily newspaper in the Welsh language. It will be launched on 3 March 2008“. Encouraging news for anyone  who values the role of newspapers in defining, enriching and informing the communities they serve. 

Renaissance man 2.0.  Ben Hammersley has written 2 books on RSS syndication. He introduced blogging to the Guardian, invented the term “podcasting”, and is a talented photographer. His latest gig is with the BBC - he is currently en route to Istanbul to create a 30 minute documentary covering the political climate in Turkey and […]

The player from viddler allows real time embedding of tags and comments. Tags provide visible section titles and are searchable.

The 12 guiding principles in the BBC impartiality report, published in today’s Media Guardian. Here’s number 7:
Impartiality is no excuse for insipid programming. It allows room for fair-minded, evidence-based judgments by senior journalists and documentary makers, and for controversial, passionate and polemical arguments by contributors and writers.
Impartiality “allows room” for informed opinion? Surely […]

Center for Citizen media reports that the National Journal Group and NBC News will embed VJs with presidential campaigns: