Thanks to journalism.co.uk’s tip of the day for pointing out that YouTube is host to a plethora of tutorial videos on everything imaginable, including on the popular video editing software which may be of help to journalists:
All you need to do to find them is search for "tutorial" preceded by whatever it is you are looking for help on.
Why don’t we see political ads like this in the UK?
It may be that I’ve only just noticed it but Google Maps is now available in the UK with live traffic overlays. This section of the M25 should illustrate the point.
Techcrunch reports that YouTube have introduced a feature which allows you to link to a particular part within a video.
To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively.
Apparently YouTube will also watch for specific mentions of time in video comments and automatically insert a link to the particular spot in the video being talked about.
Likehacker, the make-life-more-efficient website, has come up with a really creative use of tags. We’re used to using tags to see content about a particular thing; Lifehacker have introduced the concept of using tags to avoid a particular thing. For instance their “politics and election free” feed uses tags to provide a feed of their content without the political stuff. Using the “not:” operator they are enabling readers to compile feeds that exclude the stuff they are not interested in. Great idea, explained in more detail here.
Who says there’s no money in blogging. AOL just marked the three-year anniversary of their acquisition of Weblogs, Inc. by releasing some stats.
It’s worth stepping through the slides and reading the post but highlights are:
Steve Rubel draws some lessons for the upcoming recession from Steve Jobs:
Soar with your strength
Simplify everything
Be a premium brand
That’s it. That simple.
Paul Bradshaw has put together an epic series of posts based on his survey of blogging journalists which gives a great snapshot of the state of the art: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six and part seven.