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The Future is Calling New technologies can have massive disruptive impacts. When they appear whole industries, institutions or careers can collapse – seemingly overnight. Sometimes, a new technology is so powerful that it changes the very way we think....

Got video from that trip to Japan in your closet? Could be worth thousands…. There has been an enormous amount of buzz around User Generated Content or UGC. In 2000, hoping to catch this trend, I opened the DV...

Kyle Majors writes today from KGTV in San Diego. KGTV is one of the stations in the US that we are in the process of converting to the VJ model. There has been lots written about this online in...

Check out The Bakersfield Californian’s multimedia web page.(Courtesy, Steve Safran, Lostremote.com) http://www.bakersfield.com/231/index.html Here is a newspaper that clearly ‘gets it’. You might try comparing this to the web page for y0ur local tv news station. Most of them are...

TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN Since its inception, broadcasting has been based on a pretty simple model. A few people decided what ‘the viewers’ wanted to see. They spend money to create that content, put it on the air and hope...

Former KRON on-air reporter Don Knapp took the VJ training last year. Knapp was admittedly an old timer, a long-time KRON reporter with a great track record and a great journalist. There is always concern that the VJ movement...

While local TV stations agonize over whether to train and field a few VJs, Davina McHenry, a print reporter with The Bakersfield Californian, writes that the local newspaper!! has already trained and equipped 20 of their print journalists and...

We took Ronnie Miller, Syracuse radio personality and former cast member of 5takes Europe, gave him a GPS device and a small HDV camera and sent him off to travel around the world. The only condition – he could...