07.31.08     Tags: , , , ,     Filed under: Blogging, Great tools, Industry

5 reasons Twitter intrigues me; 5 reasons I avoid it

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, [...]

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03.09.08     Tags: , , , , , ,     Filed under: Self-promotion, Video

Video: Spokane teens create news webcasts

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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, [...]

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