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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.

Animated Movie: A Marxist’s Take on the Double-Dip Recession

by David | Jul 4, 2010 | Online Video, Video

Not sure if I agree with all the theses, but at least the intro really accurately runs down all the flak-catching targets for what was known as “The Subprime Mortgage Meltdown,” and is now about to be known as “The Great Depression II.” Man, I...
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