Why Video On The Web Is Different
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3q2eFfunQ[/youtube] Cisco CEO John Chambers on Healthcare Did you look at the video above? It’s John Chambers, CEO of Cisco. He is no dope. And what he has to say is both intelligent and important. Did you watch the...
Read moreThe Power of a Tweet
A whole new way of thinking about the media Recently over at b-roll.net, one of my favorite sites, there was a discussion about whether Twitter was worth anything or just a flash in the internet pan. I put in...
Read more1,000 Flipcams in Newark
Bathed in the sense of the place… Let’s give 1,000 flipcams to 1,000 people in Newark, New Jersey. Let’s teach them how to shoot and cut and tell their own stories. Then, let’s create a gigantic video wall in...
Read moreImpressionist Journalism
Live from the park… Georges Seurat… NPR New technologies drive new ideas….but it often isn’t a pretty.. or obvious process. The advent of photography toward the end of the 19th Century spelled the death knell for a generation of...
Read moreThe Reckoning
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRepUqCN4c&hl=en&fs=1] My old friends Pam Yates and Paco de Onis own Skylight Pictures. They have been documentary filmmakers for years. Real documentary filmmakers. Pam won the Academy Award for Documentaries a few years ago for her film about Guatemala....
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