Internet video usage survey results
The Pew Research Center has released a report about online video usage in the US that shows more than half of all adults have downloaded online video at some point, and 20% regularly watch online video...
View ArticleUsing handheld digital video cameras to shoot television news
What television news could be: a marriage between beautiful image manipulation and serious news. Instead, what do we do? Stand ups? People eating bugs. Guess Who’s Coming to Decorate. What a tragic...
View ArticleGet paid for user generated content – if you’re good
Did you have a crazy week in Thailand last year? How about a wild ride on a yak in inner Mongolia recently? The Travel Channel, with Michael Rosenblum, launched a new series called What’s Your Trip...
View ArticleCitizeNews launches – earn money for your video
A while ago I mentioned the impending launch of CitizeNews. It is now live. About CitizeNews Our mission is to aggregate the work of talented video journalists of great diversity and distinction whose...
View ArticleDesign a news site for a web audience
If you’re a TV station dabbling in online content, Steve Safran of Lost Remote urges you to put more than your video “left-overs” online. Shoot content exclusively for the web, or at least tailored...
View ArticleHulu – the News tube
Earlier this year it was announced that News Corporation was developing a YouTube killer. It was to be their own video serving site that was going to deliver full-length TV shows in a partnership with...
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ABC Now
In a continuing push to break new ground in digital media, ABC (Australia) has released ABC Now, a desktop media player for select ABC digital content. The potential of this application is huge. When I...
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Hulu Beta Testing
In a largely speculative post last month, I wondered about the possibilities of Hulu, News Corp’s new online video venture. Since then I’ve received my beta testing login details. With a great deal of...
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Video sharing grows – where the news?
According to a recent survey, daily visits to online video sharing sites doubled in 2007. As online visits and online video viewership grows across every demographic, where does online news video fit...
View ArticleOnline News Video
When online video sharing is growing at enormous rates, and news video was the most watched category except amongst young adults in mid-2007, the logic is simple – share your online news video. When I...
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The Super-Journalist
Can a single journalist really be a one-stop shop for all your online multimedia needs? I like the thought of that future, but hadn’t been able to wrap my mind around the concept of how the journalist...
View ArticleJames Smith – the singing tradesman
I would normally never highlight stuff I’ve done at work, but this guy is a great story. Either check out the video directly directly at YouTube, or read a little bit about him and watch the video on...
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An experiment in Mobile Journalism or MoJo
Image by inju via Flickr In January I experimented with a little mobile journalism, or MoJo, on a small story. Using Qik on a Dopod mobile phone, I live streamed video from the scene of a unit fire on...
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From the birth of a word, to the intersection of media and conversation
This is an absolutely must-see TED talk. Having seen a preview a few weeks ago, I couldn’t wait to see the amazing data visualisations that would come out of five years of video and audio analysis...
View ArticleTwitter announces Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings to be launched in Australia
Twitter announces Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings to be launched in Australia. Pretty exciting news for advancement of social audience measurement: http://bit.ly/1hcHZnB Meanwhile, they quietly shutter the...
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