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09 May 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Webcasting 101

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Basic but effective set-up over the wknd while Webcasting a local Mother’s day celebration. What I used to do with 1/2 million dollar LIVE truck took only one laptop, a  4G wireless connection,  a second laptop for social media and wireless mics… of course it goes without saying… seasoned experience at news gathering plus journalism [...]

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19 February 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Newsbound

Last year I was part of a group of Journalists attending USC’s Knight Digital Media Center “News Entrepreneur Boot Camp”,  and I very much enjoyed fellow Josh Kalven’s latest column about our experience and his journey to a for-profit online Journalism effort call “Newsbound” a really cool way to do journalism and tell stories.  It [...]

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05 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

iPad is here! See Your Website.

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Latest news report that about 700,000 people have already bought the iPad. My only wish… When is Apple going to get on board with Flash. Just like the iPhone, the iPad would show pretty much everything except for Flash applications,  and that means no Flash video players like YouTube unless they provide a compatible Quicktime [...]

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03 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

H. Edward Roberts

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I was reading the NY Times this morning, and learned about H. Edward Roberts. “Not many people in the computer world remembered H. Edward Roberts, not after he walked away from the industry more than three decades ago to become a country doctor in Georgia. Bill Gates remembered him, though.” Starts off the NY Times [...]

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01 April 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Have we been replaced? ABC “hires” robot reporters

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When I saw this I just had to laugh.  A $7.8 million dollar investment!! What do you think? ABC NEWS GOES ROBOTIC ABC News has purchased 28 “Madcat” robotic photographic units from BBN Technologies, a division of Raytheon, for an estimated $7.84 million. Some of the units will initially be assigned to European-based “one-man-band” news [...]

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