The same day as I am working up my streaming video comparison post, Chris Pirillo runs his YouTube vs. Google Video vs. Revver review. It’s a much better take on it than mine because he embeds three videos from all three services. In the videos he is arguing with himself [...]

So, the next common big thing on the web will be for the average user to share their own videos. Not really the next big thing, but the now big thing. I decided to shoot a video using the video recorder on my old point and shoot digital camera (a [...]

I went to vote first thing this morning and arrived at the polling place about 15 minutes after it had opened. I had decided to take some photos for my polling place to participate in AIGA’s Polling Place Photo Project. You can see my set of photos I uploaded for [...]

I’ve been focusing a lot on how convergence in the newsroom is affecting photographers as I worked on my lesson on displaying photographs on the screen for my Introduction to Photography class. As I’ve been surfing around looking at different newspaper websites, I’ve been amazed by the differences in quality [...]

In a memo sent out yesterday and posted on Romensko today, Craig Dubox, the CEO of Gannett, makes plans to turn all of Gannett’s newsrooms into a platform agnostic information center that ensures that the right news and information will be delivered to the right media. After piloting the project [...]

In the issue of Digital Content Producer that I received yesterday there is a great article about newspaper newsroom convergence with many photographers producing multimedia slideshows and video. Of particular interest to me was Dallas Morning News Photographer David Leeson exclusively shooting high definition video and then pulling frames for [...]