Cuttings
Cuttings: YouTube, education and Ghost
Quick links in and around journalism from the interwebs, annotated for your reding pleasure.
online video
A gimbal in my pocket
The DJI Osmo Pocket is a neat little gimbal-mounted camera that (literally) fits in your pocket.
360 video
Nic Newman: the rapidly changing landscape for news video
The rapid adoption of social video - the so-called "pivot to video" has not been well supported by research - until now. Nic Newman presents his early findings.
gaming
Journalism in 2014
Paul Bradshaw has provided a handy round-up of what happened in the worlds of digital journalism in 2014 [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2014/12/26/a-review-of-online-journalism-in-2014-and-predictions-for-2015/] . Of note: > YouTube. Media organisations are still overlooking YouTubers in the same way as they overlooked Vice, Buzzfeed et al. But there are serious
business models
How the video revolution became the video road crash
Politico examines how badly wrong newspaper experiments with video [http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/live-video-wont-save-news-business-103819.html] have gone: > News organizations have learned that the traditional television model doesn’t pay online. It costs too much to shoot and produce, and requires too much from their reporters, who
online video
Time to start paying attention to Vine
I read this [http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/vine-is-creating-a-new-breed-of-internet-superstar] : > This kerfuffle at the Smáralind shopping centre near Reykjavík, Iceland, last weekend isn’t because One Direction are in town. It’s because of two stars from Vine, the six-second video-blogging site. Then I did this: Vine has been through
leweb
Understanding quality in online video (or angry birds are cool)
Link of the day for anyone working in online video comes from Loïc, talking about the views on the videos they created around last year’s Le Web [http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2011/05/make-sure-you-dont-trust-what-you-think-works-in-video.html?] . Which one fared worst? The high-production value, highly-edited one. The most watched? Tweet