August 17, 2008 David Burnett at the Olympics His take on the mid-way point of covering the games, as much introspection as reflection. Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism
August 13, 2008 "Aloft" David L. Ryan Talks About Shooting from the Air (and not about bigfoot, alicia sacramone or ricky berens) Boston Globe photojournalist David L. Ryan has long been known for his aerial photography, and now there’s an audio slide show of him talking about it. (If you looked really carefully, you might see me in the Boston Marathon photos. I can’t see me, but maybe you could …) Categories Craft/Multimedia/Photojournalism
August 13, 2008 Underage Chinese Gymnasts in Do or Die Matchup with Women's Gymnastics star Nastia Liukin over SEO Tips for the Masses Just learned about this … Google has a page that lists the current top search terms. If you’re writing news headlines, might be worth getting some of these in to raise your page ranking. (As of this writing, that headline has three of the top 10 terms in it.) Categories Graphic Design/Multimedia
August 12, 2008 Top Tips for the Video Cook (Very obscure title there.) Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess, has a guest post from Sue Robinson about the recent Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication video workshop. Good tips in her summation. Categories Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk
August 8, 2008 Things Not to Do on Assignment Pretty close to the top of my list would have to be, “Don’t heckle your subject.” Categories At Work/Business & Industry
August 6, 2008 "The Girl in the Window" Lane DeGregory and Melissa Lyttle, of the St. Petersburg Times, have published the horrifying story of Dani, a seven year old feral girl – essentially abandoned in her own home – and the efforts of a family to help her. Steve Myers of the Poynter Institute has an interview with Lyttle and DeGregory about the story and how they approached... Categories Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk
July 30, 2008 A 14 Year Journey Scott Strazzante and MediaStorm have published his story looking at the transition of a farm into a sub-division, as told through the farm’s family and one of the new home’s families. It is awesome. The story is great, it is well told and it is beautifully shot. Every time I tell my students to shoot more, I will now have... Categories Audio/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
July 29, 2008 Why Facebook is Not a Photographer's Friend Photo Attorney Carolyn Wright has posted about the terms of service on Facebook – and it’s not friendly. Facebook, I’m sure, is not the only site to have this stuff buried in there. (I should probably go check Blogger.com …) Please make sure you’re reading those pesky terms of service agreements and that you’re not giving up anything you value... Categories Ethics & Legal
July 24, 2008 What is Social Networking? Picked up from Steve Yelvington’s blog … Categories Multimedia/Thoughts & Theory
July 24, 2008 Fonts Personified Okay, this is kind of geeky and really only the hard-core designers will like it, but … it is funny. Categories Graphic Design