Where's the line?

Parents are now social networking their children before they are barely even cognizant of life. Does this further the social interaction of people or does this go too far? Is there a line of no return in our constant sharing and publishing of our lives?

I know that I over broadcast my life at times and am too hyper-connected to various portals of social and digital media. I'm sure some people get sick of some of my pointless Twitter updates which is also connected to my Facebook and FriendFeed. Will all of this computational connecting become shallow and get people to connect in reality again? Social networking has seemingly taken over the web with it's ability to search out those of likemindedness and communicate. I just don't think that it is enough of a replacement for the true social interactions of a true social species.

I guess we'll see, right?

What is Journalism?

Just in case you didn't know how it all worked.

Found via graphicdesignr

A business opportunity in Colorado?

Those Canucks may have figured out a way to use beetle-killed trees for newsprint. Since the price for newsprint is going through the stratosphere, why not figure out a way to go local?

Just need some investment capital to set up a shop in Silverthorne or Dillon and fire up the chainsaw. 

Todd Heisler, Damon Winter and David Scull on photographing the conventions

Talking about covering the political conventions. I always like to hear what was going on outside the view of the viewfinder and behind it. 

Traffic is Growing Fast—but Capacity is Keeping Pace

Some interesting tidbits about the growth of Internet traffic and trends. 

Red is going hunting

Nikon has announced the release of the D90, which is a DSLR with video capability. Well RED has already been turning the motion picture world on its head with his proposed 5K RED Epic camera and now plans on snaring the DSLR world in his spiderweb. 

I may just wait another year to buy any kind of camera.

Wired article on the RED

Wired piece on the 4K RED HD video camera. Convergence progresses...

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?