Why do you Tube?
Posted on March 30, 2008
A project for a Digital Ethnography class during the spring 2007 semester Kansas State University asked “Why do you Tube?” Here’s a text roundup of their findings:
Out of 370 people,
>> 1% say they hate it.
>> 5% say they escape reality.
“You’re escaping to other people’s realities so you aren’t completely losing yourself in fiction.”
>> 12% say they’re addicted
>> 16% say they want to be famous.
>> 17% sat it’s authentic.
>> 19% say they’re bored.
>> 25% say to be creative.
>> 33% say to express themselves.
>> 41% like watching
“It’s slightly voyeuristic. It allows you to watch other people without staring at them or making them uncomfortable.”
>> 43% say it’s fun
>> 61% say to connect … to old friends, to help a neighbor, to share ups and downs, to encourage each other.
Watching this video reinforces how personal YouTube is — the reason cited most that people do it, is to connect. How do they connect? They talk to the camera. It’s a talking head. They’re having a conversation with the person, whoever it is, on the other side of that monitor.
Interesting, isn’t it, that a lot of newspaper video takes pride in not having a talking head?
He’s baaaack!
Posted on March 15, 2008
Congrats to Richard Koci Hernandez for getting MultimediaShooter back up after being hacked. There are a few lingering kinks still, he says — the first one I found was that I couldn’t comment on a post.
It looks fabulous. And he put together an entertaining video (below) and a list of 10 things he learned.
How to fix a Hack from richard hernandez on Vimeo.
If all else fails, try brainwashing ink
Posted on February 9, 2008
I stumbled upon a cartoon, “Jacob Two Two,” this morning while I was flipping channels on TV. The animation caught my eye, and then the content of the show drew me in.
I was watching episode #5 “Jacob Two Two and the Daily Crown,” (which originally aired in 2001, I think) about Jacob, a 10-year-old boy who lives in Montreal, and his friend Buford who think their city’s newspaper is dull, dull, dull. Bad grammar and comics that aren’t funny top their list of complaints. Who would read the newspaper? they ask as they throw it in the trash.
Hmm.
But wait, all is not lost … soon, they find all the adults in Montreal mesmerized by the paper. Everyone’s reading it. Subscriptions and advertising is at an all-time high.
How could this be? Is there actually some news in it worth reading that the kids are missing or don’t understand? Is the newspaper catering too much to older readers? In the end, do Jacob and Buford learn about journalism and the importance of the press?
Nah.
Turns out it’s part of an evil plot by con man Carl Fester King, the new owner of the paper and printing press who declares himself “King of the World.” He put a brainwashing chemical in the ink to get readers to, well, read.
That’s a great lesson for the kids: The only way circulation could rise for print papers is if we brainwash the readers.
Another interesting tidbit: Jacob refused to do research on the newspaper’s Web site, too, saying “no not that one … I want to get the dirt.”
Part I
Part II
Part III
Change. It’s not just a political buzzword.
Posted on January 8, 2008
We know it as a journalism buzzword, too.
Jane Stevens, multimedia instructor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, presented this video during this morning’s presentation at the Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop at UC Berkeley and talked about the need for change in our industry.
The definition of insanity, she reminded us, is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.
Advice for the class of ‘07
Posted on January 4, 2008
Members of the first graduating class of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism received their diplomas December 18. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Dean Baquet received an honorary doctorate from the school and gave the commencement speech. In it, he said:
What do you say to a group of young men and women who have chosen to go into a profession that many people think will be obsolete in a generation or so?
The great secret that no one seems to be talking about right now as we all wring our hands about the uncertain future of our profession:
If you go into journalism, and you approach it with humanity and not as a crass careerist, you will have more fun, more pure joy than anyone graduating from any place this year.
You will wake up in the morning unsure of which new adventure awaits.
You will see places nobody in your generation will see — distant places, but also the darker corners of the places where you live.
You will meet great writers and thinkers.
You will confront morale dilemmas that will force you to grow.
You will make epic mistakes, I promise you. But things will move so fast that if you own up to them, you will have the chance to fix them.
In short, you will have an absolute blast.
Being an interactive multimedia video journalist
Posted on November 28, 2007
Viewmagazine.tv’s creator David Dunkley Gyimah created this trailer for the “Mi6 Videojournalist Manifesto.”
He also put together this video: “Multimedia journalism - what is it?”
Worth repeating
Posted on October 29, 2007
Busy week, so until I can post again, I thought I’d share this video that saw on Mindy McAdams’ blog (where she compared “the shelf” to “Page One”):
Multimedia journalism defined
Posted on October 17, 2007
A well-said explanation by Tom McKendrick, multimedia producer at The Age:
“[Multimedia journalism is to] take all the different aspects of traditional journalism and to merge them into a whole package … true multimedia journalism is something where you have lots of different media all converged in one place. You have video and audio and photos and text and blogs and whatever else you might have in there all in one place.
“A multimedia journalist has to have a rare balance between the technical skills — the craft skills — and the journalistic skills — or the news sense.”
‘A Manifesto for Change’
Posted on October 5, 2007
Contrary to what some readers may think, less news (a thin newspaper) is not good news.
Journalism as we know it is over because the economic model has collapsed, says Geneva Overholser, editor of The Des Moines Register from 1988 to 1995, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, an editorial board member of The New York Times and ombudsman of The Washington Post.
She also wrote “On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change,” published last fall.
“The story of American journalism is undergoing a dramatic rewrite. The pace of change makes many anxious, and denunciations are lobbed from all sides – and from within. It’s easy to overlook the promise of the many possibilities that lie before us. Our focus here is on those possibilities.”
I found an interview/presentation with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. You can watch it here:
Video editing 101
Posted on October 4, 2007
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s video editing philosophy and procedure (link via the Seth Gitner via APPM):
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