Problems with homepage assignment

Hey guys,

How's everyone's home page doing? Apparently, I'm having a problem with the resume site. I guess once you load all your files to mydrive, the .doc files are not recognized. Well, we are not supposed to link our direct .doc resumes anwyays, but here's my problem.

This was what I did. I uploaded my main page first, which works fine. But the resume link still shows the .doc file though, which upon clicking doesn't work. Anways, then I go back to my original template, edit the editable region and put my resume "there", save it again, as a template, AND as another html file. I also link the resume section to this page then. After I re-synchronize, and try to run it - it still doesn't work. It's the same home page as before. I am having resume page opening problems - it still shows the link to the doc file, which upon clicking doesn't work. Anyone else having the same problems? Any help on this will be appreciated. Thanks.

Priyom.

For those interested in video production...

...here's a little wish list compiled by the TeleArts DV Rebellion just before the holidays last semester. In it, you'll find everything you need to produce some great video footage, all on a fairly shoe-string budget for those without deep pockets. Consider it a DV survival kit, if you will, perfect for the digital video rebel in all of us, or for the everyday multimedia journalist-whichever title you might prefer.

Video Editing Battle

When trying to edit your video clips - downloaded, tv-tape-computer transferred, camcorder recorded - whatever it is, what software do you folks generally use? As of right now, the two biggest ones out there are Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid Xpress.

I personally have never used Avid Xpress, I have slight used Final Cut Pro previously. But Avid Xpress apparently is sure putting up a good competition with Final Cut Pro today.

Final Cut unfortunately is only available for the Mac, but there Avid Xpress is available for both Mac and PCs. The main question being asked if what is the difference between the two? The answer would be none, according to the information I have found online.

The author of the article Avid versus Final Cut: 2006, Patrick Inhofer, says that "they both get the job done on-budget, and on-time, but when it comes to how we approach our projects or how we interact with the software itself, there are some meaningful differences."

Check it out.

Priyom.

Class Connections

I get so excited when classes intersect subjects because for WMST and JOUR classes to relate is pretty rare sometimes. But low and behold! We watched a video in my Ecological Feminism class not too long ago that is a great multimedia example (I think anyways). It is a slideshow by Annie Leonard about The Story of Stuff - basically where stuff goes when we're through with it and who this might affect. Though you may not believe or find the information valid in this video, it is informative nonetheless and seems to be successful because of the various multimedia tools that it uses. From graphics, audio and video - I don't even know what else, but I'm sure there's more - this 20 minute show is especially fascinating to watch in terms of what they do to illustrate what Annie is saying (with all the drawings and such). Watching this slideshow makes me intimidated and want to learn more about how to do these types of things at the same time. What does everybody else think?

Cape Cod Times

I often find newspaper and other news websited cluttered. I find it difficult to focus on reading with dancing ads in the corners and too many things on the screen at once. I think the Cape Cod Times has a pretty clean, simple site that is easy to look at. The color scheme is subtle, and the site is easy to navigate.

They also have a pretty big multimedia section with videos, audio slideshows and photos.

Athens Banner-Herald goes video

I was talking to John Curry, the director of photography at the Athens Banner-Herald, last night and we got on the topic of video. I told him that it was great the paper was really stepping up to the calls of the industry for a push to video and he paused. He said that it wasn't all that great and I asked him why. John explained to me that he had been sending two photographers to events that he wanted to be shot for stills and video. (That made sense since it would be pretty hard shooting video and with a still camera.) This greatly exhausted his source of staff photographers and he mentioned that he was pretty understaffed this week since they were working on three separate video projects.

So that got me to thinking, should newspapers hire a separate video staff? Should they hire more photographers and teach them video? Where does video fit inside the traditional newspaper model?

p.s. Here's a video that the Athens Banner-Herald posted about the Gym Dogs and the idea behind the "pink out" last weekend.

Source to practice video publishing

I searched YouTube for multimedia journalism and I found a multimedia journalism project that students in Texas did. The video will make you a little seasick, but it reminded me of our discussion about how the Red & Black is not doing video journlism yet. If UGA adopts a Web site based on the Tennessee Journalist site, this would be a great means of training students to do video and other multimedia work for the Red & Black. It was mentioned in class that the Red & Black is really good for students in the job market, and I think that the volunteer-run, anybody-can-do-it site would allow students to practice these skills, post them, and be able to learn the skills to apply to the Red & Black (especially if the Red & Black is worried that posting badly done videos may hinder its reputation).

As our guest speaker, Jim Stoval, said, some of the video content on the Tennessee Journalist site is just students experimenting. He even admitted that not everything was good, but that it was great that the students were at least trying and experimenting and figuring things out for themselves. The example he showed really conveys this point.