Tech Talk – Page 48 – Visual Journalism

March 16, 2011

News Story Shot on an iPad 2

It contains no edits, just a one shot deal, but reporter Mike McNeill with the Beaumont, Texas, Fox affiliate did a standup and interview on his iPad 2, which may be the first broadcast news piece done on the recent released tablet. (And, no, I don’t have one yet.)

Good Work/Tech Talk/Video

March 12, 2011

First iPad 2 in the Wild at #SXSW

Totally geeky here … but I spotted my first iPad 2 in a conference here at SXSW Interactive. Staci Kramer from PaidContent.org said she spent about 90 minutes in line on Friday to pick hers up here in Austin. She was testing out the video capability at the Changing News Rooms and News Consumers panel discussion.

Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

March 7, 2011

Local: Allison Fabella to Speak on SEO Social Media

FYI … Allison Fabella will be speaking in the Drewry Room of Grady College on Tuesday, March 8, at 12:45 p.m. Open to all, will run for 45 minutes. Background: Allison Fabella directs all strategic and tactical SEO and Social Media initiatives for the southeast’s largest newspaper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (plus accessAtlanta, AJCHomefinder, AJCCars, AJCJobs, and AJCExchange). She began her...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

F-stops Math Explained

Warning – this is super geeky. Haje Jan Kemps over at Pixiq.com has a post explaining how the numbers on your aperture ring are calculated. It’s a different method than what I learned years ago, but gets you to about the same place. (Thanks to Lawton Howell for the link.)

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March 3, 2011

Prepping for Disaster

A few weeks behind getting this out, but Steven Farrell of the New York Times put together a post on what he took to cover the events in Cairo. Farrell is shooting video for the Times, so he stripped down his kit so as not to look like a journalist.

Journalism/Tech Talk

March 3, 2011

Get (a) Shorty

Damon Kiesow over at the Poynter Institute has a piece up on how our own Atlanta Journal-Constitution is up for a Shorty Award. Shorty Awards are given out to award “the best producers of short real-time content.” How short? Just 140 characters. Kiesow’s piece has a link to a video, complete with silhouetted staffers and digital voice changes, the AJC...

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

February 24, 2011

ICONN Conference – March 24-25

It looks like we’ve got all the pieces for the ICONN Annual Conference in place again. After getting weathered-out in January, I’m hopeful that we’ll have some nice spring weather on March 24 and 25 here in Athens. So why should you come? Well, Athens is a great place in spring – especially if you’re coming from the north or...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

February 21, 2011

Workspace

Followed a tweet to this post by Nick Charney at the Government In The Lab site about The Workstation of a Modern Day Policy Wonk. (How could you not follow that sort of link?) He talks about he organizes the tools he uses to get through his days. Not sure why, but I’m kind of fascinated by this sort of...

At Work/Business & Industry/Tech Talk

February 15, 2011

Multimedia Boot Camp

FYI … Dear Journalism Colleague, We know this is true: good multimedia training is critical for journalists and journalism educators. Freedom Forum New Media Training at the Diversity Institute will offer a Multimedia Boot Camp for Journalism Professionals and Educators Feb. 23-27, 2011.   The multimedia training is tailored for journalists but open to anyone with an interest in multimedia storytelling,...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

February 9, 2011

Preaching at the Choir – Stop the Megapixel Madness

Scott Bourne over at Photofocus takes on – again – the megapixel madness. Best image quality I’ve ever seen from a DSLR? A tie between the 12.4 in the NikonD200 and the 12.8 in the Canon 5D. My current 5D Mark II, with 22 megapixels worth of resolving power, makes images that look harsher than the original 5D. More noise,...

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News Story Shot on an iPad 2

First iPad 2 in the Wild at #SXSW

Local: Allison Fabella to Speak on SEO Social Media

F-stops Math Explained

Prepping for Disaster

Get (a) Shorty

ICONN Conference – March 24-25

Workspace

Multimedia Boot Camp

Preaching at the Choir – Stop the Megapixel Madness