snuggle, a photo by vjworkshop on Flickr. I like this photo because it suggests that everything in nature has a certain affinity to others. While we might think that these shells are lifeless, we are forced to reconsider somewhat and, perhaps, wonder whether there’s a universal factor that operates in all things. Maybe it’s love! […]

A “lively discussion” (Debbie’s term) appears to be continuing about Amina’s concerns that an unreliability of online content, particularly in wikis and blogs, could (as Amina put it in her Discussion #2 post) “create a society that perpetuates inequality where wiki and blog information developed an ignorant community of learners because the education provided was […]

Powerful trends in the digital delivery of news are creating a fertile environment for expansion of video journalism, particularly among embattled newspaper companies striving to forge new revenue streams and appeal to a wider online audience by transforming themselves into multimedia, multi-platform media organizations. There are a variety of factors driving the expansion of video […]

If newspapers don’t rise to the challenge of expanding their video capabilities, other media sectors undoubtedly will, and in fact are already doing so. In a recent interview with Beet.TV, Paul Slavin, digital chief at ABC News, declared that the audience hunger for online video seems insatiable. There’s been a “real explosion in consumption” that […]