Here's 100 links to free online courses related to journalism, blogging and new media.
There's something for everyone in here. I'll have to carve out some time to take a few of them myself.
4.13.2009
4.08.2009
2009 BOP Judging Video
2009 NPPA BOP Judging from Poynter Institute on Vimeo.
Interesting video about the judging of multimedia and video content for the 2009 Best of Photojournalism. Seems as though many people are capturing interesting looking video, but that storyline is lacking making viewers ask "what's this about?"
Still comes back to the storyline and the narrative. A bunch of pretty images and interesting sounds alone don't make for a quality production. The viewer/user still needs to be grabbed and drawn in to the story.
Eight tips for aspiring photogs
Some pretty good advice in here. The key being that the character of the story didn't need to be prodded and shoved. She went out and did things and was able to get a bit of guidance for her passion and drive.
If you want something bad enough, you will find a way to make it happen. Period.
If you want something bad enough, you will find a way to make it happen. Period.
Brilliance at its best
Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness.
4.02.2009
Slick looking photo project
Tadd Meyers worked on a personal project about people who still make things with their hands, one at a time. The presentation of the images and copy is a really nice Flash package.
I guess I should have kept going on that similar theme I had about a year ago. Typical....
I guess I should have kept going on that similar theme I had about a year ago. Typical....
3.31.2009
The NEW LIFE.com
All the stories and images of LIFE yore in an online space.
One more time suck to play with.
One more time suck to play with.
Great Earth Hour Images
Reuters went above and beyond to have shooters get frames of popular places before and after the Earth Hour event last week, then Boston.com put it all together.
Fun images and use of a simple crossfade.
Fun images and use of a simple crossfade.
3.24.2009
Sweet Music Video Mashup
Really well done remix and mashup of existing videos into a new one. Wish I had half the skill and forethought to pull something like this off. There are seven other vids on the site. Have a look.
Free Online video and Multimedia Training
Angela Grant over at NewsVideographer put together a link fest of good resources to learn on the cheap.
On the money, and on photos
Great blog post about how focusing on the piracy of photos is not the solution. Making it easier and more functional to use legal licenses of photos is the solution.
Remember, locks on doors and drawers are only there to keep the honest people out.
Remember, locks on doors and drawers are only there to keep the honest people out.
3.18.2009
The best video advertisment I've seen in a while
If you like visuals and sheep herding, this is for you. Some serious planning and skills to pull this off. Four Stars!!
3.17.2009
Technology and trials
There are starting to be more and more trials that are being tossed out as a result of jurors using technology to research from their iPhone or Blackberry resulting in mistrials. Because people have become so accustomed to using technology for so much of their daily lives, I bet many don't even realize they are breaking rules stipulated to the jury. How often do you automatically do some form of a search about something to have a better understanding?
Imagine if you are a juror on a trial and the prosecution or defense uses a term or talks about something you have to understanding of and you want to know more to be able to make a better decision as a juror. Or even when you are overly connected, much like myself, and you decide to send a Tweet out about something you are doing. It just so happens that you are in jury deliberations when you do send out a message as an instinctual process. You broke the rules of being on a jury.
I'm sure we'll see more instances of this as we go forward. What if it ends up altering the way in which trials are carried out? Might be something interesting to watch as we go forward with technology that becomes more omnipresent in our lives.
Imagine if you are a juror on a trial and the prosecution or defense uses a term or talks about something you have to understanding of and you want to know more to be able to make a better decision as a juror. Or even when you are overly connected, much like myself, and you decide to send a Tweet out about something you are doing. It just so happens that you are in jury deliberations when you do send out a message as an instinctual process. You broke the rules of being on a jury.
I'm sure we'll see more instances of this as we go forward. What if it ends up altering the way in which trials are carried out? Might be something interesting to watch as we go forward with technology that becomes more omnipresent in our lives.
Dying newspapers and politics
Assessing the consequences of the closing of the Cincinnati Post at the end of 2007, the researchers found that fewer people voted in subsequent elections, fewer candidates ran in opposition to the incumbents and that, as a result, the incumbents had a better chance of being returned to office.
3.16.2009
IWantMyRocky to become InDenverTimes
Former Rocky staffers are trying to put together an online news source with paid subscriptions. Should be interesting to see how this all develops. They need to get 50,000 subscribers before the end of April to make it happen.
I will be watching this one with hawk-like eyes to see how it all evolves. I hope they will be producing content that no other media outlet will be –other than some of the great writers and staffers that are bringing their talent to the table– otherwise why pay $60 for an annual online subscription when I can read The Denver Post online for free? Looking at the staff of INDT, I don't see any visual journalists yet either. Hope they rectify that as well.
We shall see. I hope it becomes a precedent, really.
I will be watching this one with hawk-like eyes to see how it all evolves. I hope they will be producing content that no other media outlet will be –other than some of the great writers and staffers that are bringing their talent to the table– otherwise why pay $60 for an annual online subscription when I can read The Denver Post online for free? Looking at the staff of INDT, I don't see any visual journalists yet either. Hope they rectify that as well.
We shall see. I hope it becomes a precedent, really.
Jon Stewart's Moral Majority
Here's a really interesting column from The Week talking about how Jon Stewart could possibly be the most influential television personality after the build up to and subsequent dismantling of Jim Cramer.
It's a good read, and if you haven't watched any of the Stewart vs. CNBS/Cramer stuff, you should. Very interesting how the comedian has had to take over as the window to the deeper issues that have wrought havoc with mainstream media.
How'd all this start? Watch these below:
The Beginning
In Cramer we Trust
The Personality Clash
The Battle Previewed
Then the three-part Finale above.
It's a good read, and if you haven't watched any of the Stewart vs. CNBS/Cramer stuff, you should. Very interesting how the comedian has had to take over as the window to the deeper issues that have wrought havoc with mainstream media.
How'd all this start? Watch these below:
The Beginning
In Cramer we Trust
The Personality Clash
The Battle Previewed
Then the three-part Finale above.
3.12.2009
An Unlikely Weapon - The Eddie Adams Story
An Unlikely Weapon Trailer from senshi on Vimeo.
"Pictures are very important because people believe photographs, and the picture can be a lie, but that person will look at that and it’s real, it becomes a real thing, people might say the written word, bullshit, the picture is what does it."
3.11.2009
The Economics of Giving It Away
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson on how the advent of digital bytes has changed several business models and the need to find new models in the now land of free on the Internet.
Found via Macloo on Twitter
In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing?
Found via Macloo on Twitter
Sometimes it's all about timing
You gotta check out this sequence of frames capturing a suicide bomber detonating himself in a crowd of Sri Lankan Muslim men during a religious holiday in Akuressa.
Wow
Wow
POYi Documentary Project Winners
The Roanoke Times beats out the likes of Los Angeles Times and National Geographic for first place. Lots of other interesting outlets in the honorable mentions.
Will have to come back to this and get a better sense of all these productions. Too much to look at right now, holy crap.
Will have to come back to this and get a better sense of all these productions. Too much to look at right now, holy crap.
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