"UNC professors Laura Ruel and Don Wittekind notified me about a new assignment they gave their “Intro to Multimedia” students this year, which I have thoroughly enjoyed checking out. Each student is required to find a multimedia project to critique, and their write-ups are being posted on the class Website. The reviews are honest and insightful, and surely a big help to producers who are curious to learn how an average user views their projects. Don noted that these reviews are especially interesting because their students are just beginning their multimedia education, and therefore view presentations the way an average user would rather than a skilled and biased producer. One student reviewed British journalist and blogger Adam Westbrook’s recent project, “One Week in Iraq.” His response proves that these critiques are incredibly helpful for us: “I didn’t even think of navigation when I made that, it was more about the videos, which they didn’t watch by the looks of things!”

"The first and gravest mistake that individuals make believing that infographics are a branch of graphic design or that they have anything to do with illustration. (...) As a second mistake is the fact that many people think that online infographics can be created just by “translating” print pieces to the Web. Unfortunately, this is what is happening in many newsrooms worldwide. That’s the wrong approach because what you usually end with is with a still picture with a bunch of roll-over buttons."

"Tyler Hicks has three rules when photographing in a dangerous, unstable city like Kandahar, Afghanistan. Keep moving, watch the crowd and always listen to your translator and driver."

"dslrnewsshooter.com is dedicated to the use of the latest HD-dSLRs like the Canon Eos5DmkII, 7D and Nikon D300s for news, documentary and factual shooting. Run by working news shooter Dan Chung it should be a place for professionals, educators, students and industry figures to discuss the practice and the art of cinematic in documenting the real world."

"Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "before" and "after" when clicked."

"The ill winds of national economic recession have battered communities with business failures, job losses and home foreclosures. In the aftermath, Americans are facing tough choices and fundamental changes in the way they live and work. In a yearlong reporting project, msnbc.com is examining several of the issues common to all of us in the fight to recover."

"With a little practice, multiclips offer a quick and relatively painless means to sync multi-camera shoots."

"Our project is a true portrait of Britain created by photographing 1,000 people. We stopped everyone who crossed our path on the streets of London, excluding nobody, asking the same question more than fifteen hundred times."

"Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times's own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century."

"The first minute of a project is often the most difficult to produce. Start with what you know, and build from there. The finished pieces will tell you what is missing. As an example, for most MediaStorm productions, including Marcus Bleasdale’s Rape of a Nation, the image edit of the opening sequence is generally produced last. That first minute is most important for capturing the viewer’s attention. Therefore, it must be truly compelling. It’s hard to know what’s most compelling until you have a comprehensive knowledge of all your material."

"a digital watering hole for multimedia enthusiasts"

"Do we always need slick, television-style video, which require more specialized skills, or will our community accept "rougher" video, made by amateurs using less sophisticated cameras?"

"We had a bad day when Dolly was cloned," says Denise Waggoner, vice president of creative research at Getty. "We hadn't been studying biotechnology, and suddenly everyone wanted a shot of 25 sheep on a seamless white background."

"the selby features photographs, paintings and videos by todd selby of interesting people and their creative spaces"

"Now that the Flip has released their handheld digital HD video camera, here's a little rundown of the offerings currently out there and coming soon."

"Ist die Flip Ultra für den redaktionellen Einsatz zu empfehlen? Ich würde sagen: Ja. Aber nur mit Abstrichen. Denn ein Video zu drehen war wahrscheinlich noch nie einfacher, weil man sich - außer dem passenden Bildausschnitt und den richtigen Interview-Fragen - um nichts Weiteres kümmern muss. (...) Doch die Vollautomatik der Kamera ist nur so gut, wie ihr Preis vermuten lässt. Weil viele Bilder einen starken Farbstich haben, sehen die abgebildeten Personen oft sehr unvorteilhaft aus."