By Mindy McAdams
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129 million: Number of people who access the Internet via broadband in the United States.
301.1 million: U.S. population (July 2007 est.; CIA World Factbook).
81 million: Number of people in the U.S. who watch broadband video at home or at work (source: Nielsen, via Multimedia Evangelist).
16 percent: Increase in U.S. broadband video viewers from September 2006 [...]
A bunch of people analyzed the death of Backfence last week — a massively overhyped (and overfunded) site from the very beginning, in my opinion, and nothing I’m going to shed any tears over.
Examining the idea of hyperlocal sites and approaches is worthwhile, though — and Pat Thornton did a nice job of it [...]
I do not own a video iPod, but these look so cool …
The Myvu Personal Media Viewer comes in a Made for iPod Edition ($300) and will also be available in a “universal” version.
I don’t know what effect too much of this might have on one’s eyes — can it be any worse than the [...]
We hosted a panel discussion about video on newspaper Web sites on July 3 (part of UF’s Institute on Journalism and Media). Thanks to our college’s Web administrator, Craig Lee, the two-hour video of the panel is now online, broken into four roughly equal chunks:
Introduction and presentation by Chuck Fadely (photojournalist and videographer at The [...]
Responding to my post here yesterday, Melissa Worden (a multimedia producer at HeraldTribune.com) provided even more ideas for us to chew on.
If a producer who wasn’t on the scene puts the package together, “it’s like writing a print story from someone else’s notes,” Melissa wrote.
Mark Hamilton commented:
That is what used to be done by rewrite [...]
A lot of multimedia work is features work. Breaking news might be covered with video, but of course the imperative is to get it online ASAP. This breaking-news Soundslides about a protest in Kennebunkport, Maine, has a heck of a lot of good stuff in it. Why don’t we see more like this?
When a [...]
Ben Shapiro has some serious chops: His film and video work has been shown on PBS, the Sundance Channel and the National Geographic Channel, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has three Emmys and an AFI documentary prize. He wrote a very helpful essay [...]
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