Now Everyone Is a Journalist
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/8079409[/vimeo] Interviewed on Brian Lehrer’s TV show in NY last week. Many thanks to producer Marty Goldensohn.
Read moreAOL Goes VJ
Today, we began training AOL journalists and producers to create their own online video content using small cameras and laptop edits. Sound familiar? It should. AOL is filled with bright, aggressive, creative people eager to create content for their...
Read moreGresham’s Law and The Online World
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7904954[/vimeo] Sir Thomas Gresham was the Warren Buffett of the 16th Century. Financial advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, he created the first notion of debt financing, which allowed Britain to build the largest navy in the world, and ultimately...
Read moreSome Really Impressive Editing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo[/youtube] Lasse Gjertsen is a 25-year old Norwegian videographer who created this incredibly creative video. He doesn’t play either piano or drums. It’s all done in the edits. Fantastic work. Gjertsen has been approached by several commercial makers, but...
Read moreHere Comes Everybody – Part 2
Today is Day 2 of the Travel Channel Academy in DC. We’re at Travel Channel HQ, and Travel Channel’s CEO Jonathan Sichel addressed the group to explain how important and central the VJ ‘army’ is the Travel Channel’s future...
Read moreLook Out! Here Comes Everybody….*
Which way to iReport? Last night I was a guest on Brian Lehrer’s TV show. OK, I only had 20 minutes of the hour. (I had to share it with some guy who had done four tours of duty...
Read morePBS Jumps Headlong Into 1982
And now.. the late news…. Facebook is a great tool for finding old friends with whom you have lost touch. Recently, I friended Marty Goldensohn. Marty is, among many other things, Brian Lehrer’s producer. (Brian Lehrer for those outside...
Read moreListening To The Technology
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7901103[/vimeo] Andy Grove, the former Chairman and CEO of Intel said “listen to the technology, it will tell you what to do’. If we are smart we will listen to where the technology is headed. It has been going...
Read moreHas Journalism Been Voted Off The Island?
Which one writes for The Chicago Tribune? In early December the Federal Trade Commission is going to hold a series of hearings on the collapse of the journalism business. It is good that the federal government is paying attention...
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