August 2008
July 2008
- # Set up Skype: If you have not already, download and install Skype. Be sure you have a RECENT version. Currently version 3.2 is required for Windows users to join Skypecasts, as far as I know version 2.7 for Mac users. (It is free but you’ll need administrative rights to install new software on the computer you are using.) Log in with your userid and password to Skype. Make sure your microphone is plugged in and working. # Website log in: Log in to the main Skype website. You’ll need to be logged in to join the Skypecast when it begins. # At the start of the Skypecast (7 pm US Central time tonight) click on this link to visit the Skypecast page. Click the link “Join this Skypecast” which will appear once the Skypecast start time has passed. On a Windows computer you should be presented with a dialog window which asks for your permission to launch an external application (Skype) and you’ll need to click yes to authorize that. Then you should be in the Skypecast. We’ll do introductions for at least the first ten minutes, so if you join late that is fine. # Be ready to participate! Depending on the number of participants we have, we may have everyone’s mic on or mics may be muted to minimize background noise. If mics are muted, you’ll want to click the button in the skypecast window which shows the names of all the people online to virtually “raise your hand” and ask to speak. In Skype 3.2 for Windows, this is a button in the Skype window which says “Ask for the mic.” As the skypecast moderator, I’ll unmute participant mics individually so you can speak and have the floor! We should also have a skype chat window available which can be used as a backchannel to ask questions, share ideas, and further challenge everyone’s multi-tasking abilities! I’ll do my best to keep up with the backchannel, but it certainly can be challenging to both read text chat and talk about an idea at the same time.
- http: //www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/07/30/how-can-i-join-tonights-skypecast/
- # FFDshow is a free, Open Source collection of codecs, including AVCHD. It is best downloaded from here. To convert, it then requires a video editor/compressor like VirtualDubMod as described here.
- # Canopus's AVCHD Converter can convert AVCHD clips into a format which can be edited using Canopus' EDIUS 3/4.
- # A related tool, Canopus' ProCoder, can perform conversions that produce files which are usable by other video editing applications that do not support AVCHD natively.
- # Cineform also offers the Neo HDV product that allows AVCHD clips to be converted into I-frame wavelet .avi files designed for editing and post-production. These .avi files can be accepted by many popular consumer non-linear video editors, including those from Sony, Adobe and Corel, which has acquired Ulead.
- # Another useful product is CoreAVC, a reasonably cheap and quick h.264 decoder for Windows, which can decode AVCHD as well as a variety of other h.264 formats.
- <p> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD">AVCHD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p>
Graphsy →
graphsy.com
An alpha-stage site for creating graphics. Buh-bye vector-based graphics?
“If I listened to what every bitch in New York City said about me, I’d never leave the house.”
—Katie Couric on Cancer, Coverage & Bitches - mediabistro.com: TVNewser
“Culture is about how people (or departments) are expected to interact with each other in the workplace.”
—Readership Institute: Inside Newspaper Culture
"A small investment into a big future" : The Editor's Log : Blogs : News-Record.com : Greensboro, North Carolina →
blog.news-record.com
Newspaper designer takes editor’s bet, adds digital to his tool kit.
“*”To be fair, if CNN could get away with …. EARTHQAKE!!!1! as the extent of its coverage, they’d likely have scooped … Twitter.” *”
—All a-Twitter over L.A. quake | The Marketplace Reader | Marketplace from American Public Media
Digital Think - The Media Center @ API →
mediacenter.org
Interactive with essays on various intersections of technology and journalism.
Thx for the IView!
I Wud ♥ to Work 4 U!! ;) →
online.wsj.com
WSJ Article on Youth’s Miscues in Professional Job-Seeking Communication
How the Financial Times uses video - How the broadsheets use Video | andydickinson.net →
andydickinson.net
A anecdotal survey from media blogger Andy Dickinson of the UK.
Housing and Transportation Costs Tool →
htaindex.cnt.org
Explore transportation costs and housing costs across the US with this tool.
Walk Score →
walkscore.com
Type in an address, get a map and a score of the walkability of the neighborhood. This url is for Hempstead.
CounterValue / A survival guide for sub editors and other curmudgeons →
countervalue.com
From the UK, a inside list of suggestions on what subs, or copy editors, can do to make themselves needed. Author says subs have a year more of existance before the shrinking market throws them out the door.
Build a Social Network to Solve Your Problem →
marketingshift.com
Suggestions for using social networks in journalism.
Via Atlantic.com http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/primarysources#medieval
- According to a report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, the United States ranks 15th out of 30 developed countries in broadband performance, as measured by speed, price, and subscribers per household. Since widespread broadband access appears to result from both happenstance and good governance—with an emphasis on the former—America will likely have trouble catching up with the survey’s leader, South Korea, and with other highly ranked countries such as Sweden.
As We May Think →
theatlantic.com
Vannevar Bush’s treatise from the 1940s.
COVER STORY: Birth of a Station - 7/28/2008 2:00:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable →
broadcastingcable.com
Creating a local television station from scratch.
Magically entered data » Moving at the Speed of Creativity →
speedofcreativity.org
Creating surveys with Google documents.
“You can write and shoot and brand and produce your heart out. But whether your stuff gets seen might all come down to whether your bizdev folk got the headline on the AOL or Yahoo homepages.”
—Random News, No Preference. Rebuilding Media: The fate of media
“Analyst Nielsen Mobile says about 40 million Americans (about 16% of mobile users) now browse the Internet while on the move, almost double the number in 2006.”
—Why the media is on the move - Articles - Mobiles & Handhelds - Digital Life
