August 2012
3 posts
WSJ rolls out "WorldStream" smartphone videos from... →
Bravo to Wall Street Journal for taking video feeds seriously enough to give them a special stream. But the paper may be missing a huge opportunity by limiting video to that only from Journal staffers/editors. The paper argues it wants only high-quality, carefully vetted material. I can’t support that enough. But why not deploy those editors/vetters to work with everyday citizens to raise...
Drinking in Color
Trying to decide whether to teach a unit on simple Web photo galleries in my multimedia reporting class in the fall. So I practiced with Picasa this morning, and here’s what I came up.* * God help me, but the best spur-of-the moment “themed” photos I could find in iPhoto related to drinking/drinks. I blame American Drink … and journalism.
“A picture of the newborn, wedged between its mother and grandmother, was posted...”
– New baby born to Pacific Northwest orca J Pod.
Total swoon, baby … 