Entries from Lucas Grindley's blog | Exploring the new way for journalism tagged with 'Video'
Miami Herald gets video right
A combination of entertaining story selection, casual presentation, and cool design make MiamiHerald.com's new video program an instant success -- at least in my book. It's been around a while but I'm just noticing. The thing I never liked about...
Bridge collapse caught on video
Many, many people predicted that all major breaking news would one day be captured on video because recording devices would become so ubiquitous in society that everything is taped. Here's the latest mind-blowing evidence they were right. A day after...
YouTube debate worth it, despite Biden cheating
Since I was such a critic of CNN’s plan to select the video questions for its YouTube debate without any input from users, I’m obliged to admit the producers did an admirable job despite cutting the people out of the...
Anderson Cooper defends YouTube debate
In defense of the CNN-YouTube debate, Anderson Cooper said today that it wasn’t possible to let people vote on which questions should be asked tomorrow because the candidates might cheat. In other words, if everyone was allowed to pick the...
CNN on YouTube debate: 'no comment'
The headline at David Cohn's blog asks, "Why Vote for a Video If the Vote Takers Aren't Listening?" He's talking about the supposed YouTube debate set to air on CNN. It seems you can upload a question for the debate,...
Pogue's iPhone music video is actually good
During my travels on the Web, I passed by a few chances to watch this. I'm glad I finally did. Aside from it being funny, it's also a way of covering this story that wouldn't have been done on...
To embed or not to embed? That's not the real question
If you're looking to increase video plays, Melissa Worden points out some valuable statistics provided by the head of BBC Interactive. Pete Clifton said that when video was embedded into the article page, up to 40 percent of people reading...
Why the CNN Pipeline was bound to fail
It would be easy to see the shutdown of CNN’s Pipeline video service as just another piece of evidence that people won’t pay for content online. But that’s not why the Pipeline failed. After all, there are lots of types...
News, from the rock n' roll perspective
I love this idea. Thanks to Editor & Publisher for pointing out the new "Pop Ed" video blog from Boston.com. Here's how it works: Musician Jake Brennan reads the news each day and then writes a song about it. The...
Frequency key to video ads; Frequency key to video ads
Google is still working on its plan to launch advertising on YouTube’s video clips. Most sites use 30-second pre-roll ads, which still seem pretty darn annoying to me despite what some optimistic studies say. Perhaps the reason Google hasn’t followed...
The day has come for online video when . . .
Once upon a time, as co-host of a weekly television segment about online trends, I compared Netflix to Movielink back when they were both new. Netflix mailed movies. Movielink played them right on your computer. Idealists were hot for Movielink...
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