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Mindshare LA: “The Illusion of Free Will”

by David | Jan 25, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Online Video

No. this isn’t about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject). This is an intro to a...

Where is the media heading?

by David | Oct 17, 2010 | advertising, Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Online Video

First in a series of videos taken during a panel discussion for PR Newswire at the LA Times building.    On the panel with me, the delightfully funny and plainspoken Serena Ehrlich, who knows more about how to handle media in the digital age than the last...

Taiwanimation: No Longer Parody, But Actual Useful News Interpretation

by David | Sep 30, 2010 | Amusing Nonsense, Online Video, Politics & New Media, Video

A while back, I was asked to give me take on “The Emerging Visual Language of Online Video” as part of Rosental Alves’ amazing yearly journalism conference in Austin.  I made the room laugh when I showed parody videos like the “SoulWow”...

Print Schadenfreude: TV Up Next to the Chopping Block

by David | Sep 24, 2010 | advertising, New Marketing, Online Video, television

A collective snicker/groan radiated out through the interwebs today with the publication of this AdAge piece on how video is like the news business was in 1998, as legions of print journalists who have seen the number and budgets of the news outlets for which they...

Premiere Pro Demo at Photoshop World

by David | Aug 31, 2010 | Online Video, Video

Great presentation today about the explosion in using DSLRs to shoot video. Learned some cool workflow stuff from the Adobe Premiere Pro product managers.

Tbilisi Journalist Training: Graduation Day

by David | Jul 6, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Online Video

Tbilisi Journalist Graduation, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. These are the journalists from the smaller cities & towns outside of Tbilisi, Georgia. They’re all grinning happily, because they’ve managed to survive my intense one-week course, where I...
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