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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
Recent Comments
My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: video
Body of Marine killed in Afghanistan arrives in Bozeman
Our newest Bozeman Daily Chronicle video. You can see more of them at http://dailychronicle.blip.tv/. via blip.tv Cross-posted from my Posterous site at Becker’s Online Journal
Brian Stelter: Online ads are booming
Brian Stelter, writing for the New York Times, points out that at least portion of the online advertising market is growing: At a time when other categories of advertising dollars are shrinking, video ads are booming. News sites are adding more video inventory to keep pace with the demands of advertisers, and benefiting from the [...]
Save early and save often
Lesson learned: If a program offers you the opportunity to autosave your work for you, if only you’d take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it. Don’t, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, thinking that Final Cut Pro is saving your [...]
Flip cameras turn everbody into paparazzi
Jeff Jarvis put up this post yesterday about a German online tabloid called Bild. The editor of the magazine saw Jarvis with a Flip at a conference and had to have one. He dispatched his staff members to the U.S. to buy some of the cameras, and the editor eventually contracted with another camera company [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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