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This is one awful example of video camera technique, and one fine specimen of street VJ. It tells a whole story in under a minute, no editing. Just a guy in the street pulling his camera out when he sees a someone dumpster diving.
The guy with the camera in this case happens to be Paul […]

This week from the “Not my job” department:
When I first saw The Diving Bell and the Butterfly I was convinced that it deserved academy awards for director and editor.
Now having watched the “making of” DVD feature I’m not sure who exactly deserves the accolades.
Many of the stylistic decisions which I had assumed where Schnable’s were […]

Lawrence Lessig “How creativity is being strangled by the law”.
Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.”
The video is 19 minutes long - worth listening to, even if you don’t have time to watch.

Video producers are not the only ones who could benefit from following this advice. Web surfers it seems also have little patience for the written word.
From Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox:
“…on an average visit, users read half the information only on those pages with 111 words or less….[on pages with more words] users will read about 20% […]

“….companies across the U.S. are starting to prevent their employees from accessing Internet-video services at work
….According to a study released last month by Nielsen Online, an Internet tracking service owned by Nielsen Co., the heaviest consumption of Internet video is during weekday lunch hours between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., when most people are at […]