>Newspapers no longer in the paper business – video
>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eaofEoCzqU&hl=en&fs=1] Interview with Michael Rosenblum by Jemima Kiss at the Society of Editors conference in Bristol.
“Newspapers today are in information and journalism business, they’re not in the paper business. The biggest weakness in the newspaper is the paper part of it.”
I think Michael Rosenblum is spot on. The fact that this video has been posted via Youtube rather than the Guardian’s video platform is case in point.
Read MoreFirst movie on flickr
First movie on flickr
Originally uploaded by nairnski
My first movie posting to flickr. First attempt failed as it didn’t seem to like H.264 but the second attempt encoded as an MPEG-4 seems to have worked fine.
I used a custom camera housing, some might call it a cardboard box with lots of tape wrapped round it, to film this. This was coming down an empty red run on the Fornet glacier. It was steeper than it looks!
Read More>Presenting not very visual content as video
>I am currently wrestling with how to present some not very visual content as video.
You can cover almost any subject area through moving pictures, but doing it in a way that is entertaining enough to maintain the attention of your audience is a challenge.
If you get it right though you can transfer really quite intricate ideas clearly and in a much more interesting way than you could have done with text or images.
Whenever it seems too hard it’s always good to come back to a set of some fantastic videos that present not very visual subject matter in a highly entertaining way.
Explain RSS to my mum using moving pictures, now there’s a challenge…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU&rel=1]
For more ‘Paperwork’ videos by these guys visit leelefever on Youtube.
Read More>Video Comparison Shoot Out
>I’m a great fan of blip.tv for all your video needs. Blip offers a great deal of functionality and features for very little expense. One of the strongest features is that Blip gives you a great deal of control over the quality of the final embedded video.
It creates flash versions of your uploaded format at a similar bitrate to the original file. This means you can create a flash embedded version of your file at exactly the standard, size and quality you want.
PC World magazine have created a video comparison of various video sites such as Youtube, Revver and Brightcove. They’ve uploaded a test file to these sites and compared the embedded flash version the sites create.
It’s slightly flawed because they’ve compared a Quicktime version from blip.tv against flash versions from the competitors. Nonetheless it’s still interesting if you keep that in mind.
The list of other great advantages of Blip is too long to go into when there is Christmas Shopping to do and my Best of 2007 CD to make. More harping on about blip.tv again in the New Year.
Read More>Horniman Jellyfish
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