Sweet, yummy Olympic goodness

A truckload of fun photos from the Olympics. It's always good to see the photographer frames and not the stuff that runs on the printed page or sports section gallery.

Media Needs a Makeover

Rob Haggart reinforces the notion that content is king. Media outlets need to stop chasing those "every once in a while" readers/viewers and capitalize on the readers/viewers that are consuming.

How many times has it been said....

The shapeshifter that is Flash video

NewsVideographer's Angela Grant dug up a goldmine with a gaggle of info pages about converting digital video to Flash video. I'm sure I'll be pouring over the pages in the coming weeks.

Power of Photojournalism to connect the world

Just watch it. Nothing more need be said.

Creative info graphic about men dying

There's a lot of ways to go out there. But the leader is the evil that is cancer. I hate even typing that word.


Found via Popurls on Twitter.

Where can I get one of these?

The Krauts are doing pretty well

It's looking more and more that if you want to work for a newspaper, you might look at going international. Asia's papers are exploding. Europe's papers are gaining more and more traction. South America still gets its info from lady grays.

The last line of this post is striking.

Photography as a weapon

An interesting discussion about the fake Iranian missile launch and other fakes photos.

The power of a visual image is very broad, yet many take it for granted.

The nightmare that is online video compression

Angela Grant over at NewsVideographer posted a week or so ago her settings for compression and was given a few other resources for figuring out what kind of hand grenade to use. I'm hoping we can figure out a better number set to work with the new Scripps player.

J-students shouldn't be too worried

… nearly the same percentage of graduates in 2007 found full-time jobs within six to eight months of graduation as in the previous year, and salaries remained the same.

The stagnant salaries isn't much to rave about, but the notion that graduates are still getting jobs is a good sign. Might be a bad sign for those entrenched old-skool journos though. Having multiple skills is the key to getting a job.

Future browsing experience?

Here's a video clip about a browser in development by the Mozilla folks. There's some interesting notions in there as well as some that will probably be developed faster than the final browser. Scary, yet interesting stuff.

And people wonder why social networking works so well

Microsoft studied their instant messenger users and learned that the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is nearly true. It's 6.6. Can you say LinkedIn? That's basically the premise for that site: Who do your friends know that could get you a job or some business?

Opec 2.0

An interesting column about how the controllers of access to bandwidth could be likened to OPEC's control of oil. Comcast has already been testing tiered bandwidth plans in Canada and Time Warner is testing it on new customers in the southern states.

Who really should control access to the Internet, which is rapidly becoming the primary source of communication for all types of media?

So, how many journos got cut for this?

Despite Gannet cutting and cutting in newspaper and broadcast newsrooms they spend $10 million on an online streaming startup. At least they're doing something more than just cutting and cutting.

Tight limits on War Photographers

A NYTimes story about Iraq War photojournalism coverage. The trend is if a photo is made of injured soldiers or especially those killed in action, the photog is removed from their embed. There's a good gallery of images as well.

Inspirational Photog Interview

Found via MediaStorm

New Media Douchebags

Simplicity from the Muppets

Found via andydickinson.net

Parting Thoughts

The Columbia Journalism Review has set up a place for those that have left or pushed out the door of journalism to reflect. After reading Jim Spencer's piece, I'm looking forward to reading a few more in hopes of finding some solace. Solace in knowing that once I walk out the door of a newspaper in several weeks I'm not alone in feeling like I'm walking away from one of the most important and passionate aspects of my career.

AMEN!! Can this be done last month?

The first notion of reader comments at the bottom of newspaper.com stories I had was it would be a good thing. Maybe people would chime in and figure out a way to solve problems or illuminate other problems. Thus a wiser and stronger community. After watching the constant attacks and childish games in the comments of the Camera, I have to say it's time to pull the plug.

After three comments the story is thrown to the gutter so that only a small number of people scratch, claw and bludgeon each other with poorly chosen words accelerating the downward spiral of humanity. And that's after the really horrific spiteful "comments" are removed by our lone web editor. Once more reason to dump them is not paying someone to babysit the comments.

I guess they didn't learn that lesson from Grandma: "If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all."