Ian Reeves Media

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Old journalism dog. New video tricks.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Worth a look 20 Nov

The Outernet - Integrated Multimedia VideoJournalism: The video journalist Decree [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:51 AM CST

One to save and savour. Videojournalism guru David Dunkley Gyimah has produced a 23-point (and growing) video journalism manifesto. It's a call to arms and two fingers in the direction of the "professionals [who] tell you it is impossible to be multi-skilled."

Diamond Road Online [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:43 AM CST

A fascinating development of interactive journalism that has grown out of a television documentary series, Diamond Road Online is an 'interactive documentary that learns from your choices and grows from the community.'

Mercury News Photo » Where We Live » Blog Archive [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:39 AM CST

San Jose Mercury News has a cool interactive panoroma - in the style of a collage - focusing on a small town. It uses software created by a company called Vuvox.

Code Couture releases TextTime: a revolutionized word count - Editors Weblog [del.icio.us]

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 08:31 AM CST

Instead of using wordcount to measure the length of text, this software estimates how much time any given piece will take to read. I can hear the news editor now: "Give me 72 seconds on Brown's environment speech. You've got ten minutes."