State of the Internet: Summing up 2010 Infographic.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
How Does Google Work? Learn How Google Works: Search Engine + AdWords
[infographic] The history of social networking
How To Search & Credit Properly-Licensed Photos On Flickr
Flickr is an amazing resource of creative images. It’s always been the main source of inspiration to me.
I once listed some awesome Flickr search tools that are HUGE fun to use and Nancy did a great job explaining how to upload and use Flickr photos the easy way.
This post takes a bit different focus: it attempts to make it clearer for everyone which Flickr photos they are allowed to re-use and how to easily find and credit them. Anyone who has a blog may have used images published on Flickr but not everyone knows how to properly do that.
via How To Search & Credit Properly-Licensed Photos On Flickr [Firefox].
Tool of the Day: CuePrompter – 10,000 Words
Backpack journalism isn’t just limited to multimedia projects…broadcast journalists can get in the game with CuePrompter, an online teleprompter for journalists on the go.
CuePrompter is a free tool that lets anyone paste text into a field and have that text transformed into a legible full-screen prompt on a computer. You can set your script to scroll automatically, change the speed and select from various options, including font size and colors.
The tool allows reporters in the field to record scripted stand ups without having to memorize text or shuffle through papers. The hands-free approach can also give video a more professional look. Best of all, CuePrompter is free to use.
via The State of the Blogosphere 2010 « Brian Solis Brian Solis
The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? Personally, I believe the answer lies in the nature of circumstances. If drinking from the glass, it is then half empty. If pouring, it is half full.
via The State of the Blogosphere 2010 « Brian Solis Brian Solis.
YouTube Trends
YouTube has launched their new YouTube Trends, a daily insight on the latest video trends.
Created by YouTube, YouTube Trends is a new destination for the latest trending videos and video trends on YouTube and a resource for daily insight into what’s happening in web video.
By making use of viewership data and aggregating the wisdom of top curators across the web, YouTube Trends surfaces popular videos in real time, and provides a blog of broader trends developing within the YouTube community.
The site is also a laboratory for new tools to help us identify and understand trends across YouTube.
2010 – Year of mobile internet
Being a Good Editor Means Being Opinionated About Everything
Being a Good Editor Means Being Opinionated About EverythingWe all edit, whether it’s our own emails or as part of our professional duties. What matters most isn’t a mastery of present participle, but being in control of one’s viewpoints, biases, and organization, as one hardcore editor tells the tale.
via Being a Good Editor Means Being Opinionated About Everything.
At the time, I considered “opinionated” to mean ‘holding opinions without regard to the facts,’ and indeed dictionary definitions suggest ‘stubborn adherence to preconceived notions.’ But there is another side to being opinionated, which means having a view. It is a management truism that having a vision based on false hypotheses is better than a lack of vision, and like all truisms it is probably false some of the time, but the same feature holds true in editing: the editor’s main job is to decide what is published, and what is not. Having some basis for deciding definitely dominates the absence of a basis. Even if I don’t like to think of myself as “obstinate, stubborn or bigoted,” it is valuable to have an opinion about everything.
Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting – Smashing Magazine
When people think about how to start screencasting1, they often forget that screencasting is not only a very interesting way of showing something quickly, comprehensibly and easily; it’s also a way of advertising their products. It’s a shame to see how many websites out there lack a beautiful looking screencast, as this can make products look a lot more attractive to potential customers.
via Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting – Smashing Magazine.