Today’s great post from Mindy McAdams reminded me of some thoughts I’ve had recently about online video. News organizations are trying too hard! There’s an easier way to tell video stories on the web.
The web is not TV
Television news has gotten us used to a specific format of video. But a TV [...]
I use Flickr lots. For sharing little videos in my river blog posts, for finding creative-commons-licensed images to accompany my news stories, and for sharing my pictures with the world so that they might find their way into neat places like the Wikipedia.
And now I can embed slideshows! Woo!
Click the little arrows-in-a-box icon [...]
Last week, I posted about finding and using Creative Commons-licensed content. It seemed a bit long, so I thought I’d pack the good bits about Flickr into a video. Check out the earlier post for more about how to attribute an image to an author, and other neat things you can do when [...]
Chinese Flowering Crabapple / 海棠(カイドウ), by TANAKA Juuyoh
In part 1, I wrote about free speech and free software for journalists. This time we’ll try something a bit easier for the less tech-savvy journo to try out: Creative Commons-licensed content.
Last month I had two stories that were dying for art — one on wetlands, one [...]
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