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Feb

Swarthmore Daily Gazette “Office Hours” asks me about social media journalism

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Office Hours: Jim MacMillan from SwatGazette on Vimeo.

As part of The Daily Gazette‘s new series, Office Hours, we sat down with Journalist in Residence for The Lang Center Jim MacMillan, to ask him about his life in the social network. With over 40,000 Facebook subscribers and double that on Twitter, MacMillan knows a thing or two about building a following.

Categories : Entertainment, Independent Journalism, Journalism, Philadelphia, video

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Feb

Mick Jagger at the White House

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Found live online at WhiteHouse.gov Tuesday night: Mick Jagger, now 68, performed at a Black History Month concert in the East Room. The Obamas were in attendance.

Categories : Blogging, Entertainment, Live video, video, Washington

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Jan

Pocket photojournalism

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I am preparing a workshop on video storytelling for some of my students — and that brought me to revisit this video I made for a conference I could not attend last year. It’s getting old in the sense that more alternatives are now available but still a pretty good wrap:

I produced this video in lieu of appearing on a panel that I was unable to attend at the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course in in Warwick, RI, in March 2011, considering tech concerns for educators teaching photojournalism students. Related links are below.

Gorillapod - iPhone Tripod Holder - Photojoj iPhone telephoto lens - Eye-Fi cards - Virgin Mobile MiFi hub - Zoomit - Posterous.com

Categories : Blogging, Education, Entertainment, Gadgets, Independent Journalism, iPhone Photos, Live video, Mobile, Multimedia, New Media, Photo, Photojournalism, Social Media, Tech

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Dec

Free holiday fun in Philly

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A crowd watches children singing on the 2100 square-foot video wall during the Comcast Holiday Spectacular at The Comcast Center in Philadelphia last night. A few blocks away last week, we dropped in on an older Philadelphia tradition, the Holiday Light Show at Macy’s, seen below.