New media and video journalism
I thought I would make a tutorial for how to send a DVD through the Internet.
I am in Germany and need to send a DVD image to Florida for my brother to burn to a playable DVD movie disc. Snail mail and the delays in international customs processing will make for a slow delivery.
The Challenge:
Send a 4 GB DVD disc image halfway around the world.
The Solution:
This video tutorial that shows how to send a disc image of a DVD using free tools and free file sharing services. (For Mac OSX.)
Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.
A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.
Continue reading ‘5 power tips for using Twitter for research’
How to “opt-out” of the things Facebook just opted you into with their new like button and social graph technology.
On April 21, 2010 to sharing your personal data to their business partners and, disturbingly, they automatically enroll all users into adopting or opting in to the new scheme.
If you have not visited your privacy settings, go take a look at what you, by default, have opted into.
At the very least, hiding your friends list is a good first step.
A quick tutorial to guide beginners in making better video reports.
Last week I shared some tips for journalists using Twitter in a live Webinar for the World Editors Forum.
One of the examples I showed was how, as a solo video journalist, I was able to generate a lot of traffic and attention to a video report I filed in Cairo.