Month: October 2007

  • When the team goes to the pits

    Question: Does a team fall apart from the stress of things not going well or do things begin to not go well when the team falls to work together? For those who aren’t NASCAR followers, this is a photo of Roush-Fenway driver Carl Edwards getting angry enough to almost punch teammate Matt Kenseth following Sunday’s…

  • Al Gore will change your life

    OK, so Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet (single-handily), but he did make global warming a movie and he has now re-defined TV. And TIpper cleaned up the record industry. That dynamite group gave the prize to the wrong couple; It should have been Al and Tipper, not Al and the UN. What I like…

  • Benchmarking video efforts

    Andy Dickinson has done an analysis of a video survey he did among newspapers. Among the highlights: The average length for video is between 2 -3 minutes The average production time is between 2 -4 hours The most common camera used in newsrooms is the Cannon XH-A1 The most common edit software in use is…