October 4, 2007 Yet More Student Blog Work Someone lit a fire under those kids … check out Richard Hamm’s “phlog” (as Kelly Wegel is fond of saying). He’s thrown up some galleries of older stuff to go with the new work. Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk
October 4, 2007 Ten percent of page views at NYTimes.com are of … … slideshows. So says Vivian Schiller, general manager of NYTimes.com, in a piece on MarketWatch. (Thanks for the lead goes to Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess.) Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia
October 1, 2007 Workshops of Note The NPPA’s Flying Short Course: Washington, D.C., on October 26 & 27. This is the 50th anniversary and looks to be hosted at USA Today’s headquarters.The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: Gwinnett, Ga., on November 30 and December 1. Email me if you’re interested and I’ll put together a contact list. Do it now so we can try to fund some of... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry
October 1, 2007 Reuters on Kenji Nagai The Reuters photo blog has a brief on the image of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai who was killed in Myanmar last week. Categories Good Work/Journalism/Tech Talk
October 1, 2007 UGA Magazine Club Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. – The Magazine Club is having a meeting and Kelly Simmons, editor of Georgia Magazine, is coming to chat with us. It’s 6:30 in Journalism 505. Georgia Magazine is looking for freelance writers, so this could be a good opportunity to get some clips, as well as network and get career advice. Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism
October 1, 2007 The Real Reason Newspapers Need to do Video The Austin American-Statesman shows us why we need journalists who are prepared to work in all areas … (Okay, for some real commentary on the YouTubification of Amer … well, the world, try this piece instead.) Categories Good Work/Tech Talk
October 1, 2007 The War on Error That Aaron Johnson, he just cracks me up every day now … Categories Journalism/Tech Talk
September 28, 2007 More Student Blogs Some sent, some found. (Are you trying to hide these from me or something?) Rusty Bailey – no photos, yet. (Right?)Tyler GoforthWaites Laseter Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk
September 28, 2007 Blogging For Bucks Sort of … Dr. Kaye Sweetser points out that here is now a scholarship for bloggers … and, at $10,000, it’s, like, real money. (I’m SO going after my undergrad degree again with this.) More details details are on the CollegeScholarshop.org site. Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk
September 26, 2007 Burning Man 2007 The Las Vegas Sun has videos – and Flickr photo feed – up from this year’s Burning Man festival. This goes well beyond what a “normal” broadcast station would do on this type of story – it has the traditional journalistic narrator, as well as interviews, but adds text and stop-motion style photography to the package. It’s smooth, sophisticated –... Categories Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk