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I’ve been holding out from getting a Twitter account for years. Recently, my resistance has been slipping because:

Twitter users transmit news faster than the news wires. Case study: Wednesday’s L.A.-area earthquake.
There are tons of Twitter tools out there to play with, such as twhirl and summize.
It’s beautiful in its simplicity.
It’s like IM from your phone [...]

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What: Multimedia about multimedia. Emerge News is a grant-funded program that lets high school students create news webcasts. I visited one of their tapings and shot video of the process.
What worked: Tight shots. Lots of them. I like the popcorn sequence, but only because it was part of the story; the subsequent shot of the [...]