My iPhone4 So Far….
So far, so good… I have been a lifetime proponent of Apple products. I was editing on Final Cut 1.2 for air. I still have an eMac downstairs.. somewhere. And through the various Academy projects, we own about 60...
Read moreThe Law and Shooting in Public Places
credit: Marc Vallee, photojournalist. The explosion of digital cameras in the hands of ‘amateurs’, particularly since the advent of HD video in cell phones has caused a lot of changes, and a lot of consternation – particularly among law...
Read more16 Year in Prison for Posting This Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7PC9cZEWCQ&NR=1[/youtube] OK. Watch the video above. It was shot by Anthony Graber using a helmet cam while he rode on his motorcycle. Nothing happens for the first 3 minutes, but stick with it. With about :15 to go, you’ll...
Read moreThe Very Strange World of The New York Times
hello Bob? Hello? Are you there? Hello Bob? OK So on Sunday I read Bob Herbert’s column in The New York Times, and I posted a response. It was the normal, predictable kvetch about how people on blackberries and...
Read moreThe Game Changer
Cut. Print it. We are driven by our tools much more than we like to think we are. We like to think that we use the tools. In reality, it is the tools that shape us. Bob Herbert ran...
Read moreRadio Free Europe in Prague
Addressing the Directors of RFE/RL This week we are in Prague, running an intensive video bootcamp for the journalists at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. This is the third year we have come here to run bootcamps, and the...
Read moreThe Canon of Journalism
Here is my latest Bull on Journalism… The Missouri School of Journalism yesterday issued a press release entitled ” Citizen Journalism vs. Legacy News: The Battle for News Supremacy I like this ‘battle’ notion because it plays right into...
Read moreHow We’re Going to Work
OK. You’ll be working right here for the next 40 years… Last week, on the heels of reading The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen, I paid a visit to Richard Arkwright’s first factory in Derbyshire,...
Read moreThe Shape of Things To Come
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaptVt2Oruo[/youtube] and a little child shall lead them… The video above was sent to me yesterday by Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer at The BBC. It wasn’t done by anyone at The BBC. It was done by Pat’s 14-year...
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