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.)
Cologne: Germany defeats England 4-1 in the World Cup and the next morning the front page sales display of the Bild, Germany’s top-selling newspaper screams the news. Most German papers had boring fronts. Interesting, I thought, to judge this cover design in the proper context - a point of sale box.
Se below for a close-up and the full broadsheet view.
Continue reading ‘World Cup ~ Bild Front Page in Köln after Germany defeats England’
My colleague, Ahmed Montasser, is providing simultaneous Arabic to
English translation to me in this moment. He is literally whispering
into my ear as I query an editor at the steps of Al Ahram. Egypt's
largest newspaper
Over the past three weeks I have filmed more than eight key interviews in Toronto, Moscow, Cairo and Alexandria for the journalism documentary, "Breaking The News."
Interviews with editors-in-in chief in Moscow and Alexandria, entrepreneurial journalists at a week-old-online startup in Toronto, and today, the chairman of the board of a 15,000 employee media house in the most populated Arabic country in the world.
Continue reading ‘On the set of “Breaking The News”: Cairo and Al Ahram’
I just sent this e-mail to Steve Jobs.
Wish me luck that he will reply.
My question is simply this:
Can Apple reconcile Steve Jobs’ support for press freedoms with the fact that they censor news content for apps?
Dear Steve,
Continue reading ‘My dear Steve Jobs e-mail RE: Press freedoms and Apple’s news censors’
Jailbreaking the iPad in the name of journalism
Deja vu.
Just did a jailbreak on my iPad.
Three years ago I did a jailbreak on my iPhone before conducting a live lecture/demo for Medill freshman using independent apps to do live field reporting. Link to that blog entry.
I’ve already logged thousands of air miles and a couple of stamps in the passport with my iPad in tow and am gathering a lot of good field experience using it in ways to report I never thought I would. I have passed it around to journalists in newsrooms in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Richmond and gleaned some good feedback. Can’t wait to see the editors in Toronto react when they see that she is properly housebroken, er, jailbroken that is. I’ll be there next week delivering two sessions to editors-in-chief at the Canadian Newspaper Association.
Continue reading ‘Jailbreaking the iPad in the name of journalism’
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 Facebook dramatically changed their approach 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.
UPDATE: More details are emerging from the profound privacy and marketing changes being introduced by Facebook.
I have added a link set of related articles at the bottom of this post to illuminate what is happening with these changes. That list of articles will update as I do more reporting.
What is not to ‘like’ about the new Facebook?
This is the ‘Like button” that you will now see on all of your fave Web sites.
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Go ahead and click on it and then go to Facebook and check your profile.
Facebook tells developers that the ‘Like’ button will add their Web site to people’s profiles.
This is the new button you will see everywhere on the Web.
What was revealed today was that Facebook wants to be everywhere you go and collect rich data about your preferences. This cute little button unlocks a new Pandora’s box of privacy concerns.
Continue reading ‘Keep Facebook from ‘liking’ too much of your private life’
“Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad.”
That is not a typo.
iMockups will allow designers to create quick wireframes and mockups for your web, iPhone and iPad projects, using an iPad.
This preview video heralds a wave of new productivity and design-focused apps.
If nothing else, we now have a business reason to expense an iPad.
Continue reading ‘Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad and iPhone’
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’
Is it time to revisit your Facebook strategy? Should you have Groups vs. Pages. Fans vs. Members?
I have been doing a lot of research and writing reports for European clients to advise them on social media and mobile media strategies and am starting to turn some of that intel into action for my other full-time volunteer gig - running the Visual Editors charity.
Visual Editors is a non-profit foundation founded in 2004 to promote visual journalism literacy and has used an array of social networking tools to organize fundraising, meetups and training events around the world. It has been a sandbox for me and our members to get our hands dirty with emerging technologies and behaviors.
Our members have been, at times, years ahead of many other groups of journalists in adopting and adapting to the digital media landscape. VizEds members have been active for a long time in social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter.
Continue reading ‘Creating a Facebook presence for a non-profit’
