December 2008 Articles, News Items, Product Reviews, Book Reviews, etc Apple recently refreshed their entire MacBook product line – which includes the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air – with new designs and higher horsepower hardware. The aluminum unibody design, used on the majority of the new Macs, is cut from a brick of solid aluminum. This results in a stronger, more durable notebook, while at the same time reducing the computer's weight. You really have to handle one of these machines to appreciate the leap that Apple has made with manufacturing; they simply feel more solid than any other notebook that I've handled. Read the Article
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 Dobrow's Online-Video Commandments Media Reviews for Media People: Thou Shalt Not Fake It Ad Age's fearless media reviewer issues five acid-etched-in-concrete commandments for all future online-video efforts, especially those underwritten by superlatively unfunny marketers, which can be summed up with the adage, "To Thine Own Self Be True."  FULL ARTICLE
Written by Grant CrowellPanelists on the Video Search Engine Optimization session for Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference and Expo – Gregory Markel, Greg Jarboe, and Steve Espinosa – shared their expert insights on YouTube’s algorithms, popularity, conversion, and tracking strategies – all towards optimizing your video campaign in the most popular video sharing site today.
Guide to Time Code for Shooting on Location Video - Time-code is the reference point on the tape or hard disk that follows right through the whole production process. Lots of people rely on it and if it goes wrong, becomes nonsequential, or jumps, then it affects viewing, off-line editing, graphics, sound dubs, and on-line editing and causes an awful lot of bad language from video editors. more
 Could Parry Gripp be the best thing that ever happened to YouTube? The man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer's theme song is turning Internet-video disaster into visual punk rock.
Everything that makes YouTube a time-wasting creative desert is just fodder for Gripp's brilliant mind. Take "Young Girl Talking About Herself," which remixes clips of well, exactly that, paired with lyrics of a frenetic energy that reminds me of They Might Be Giants or Weird Al Yankovic.
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 One Minute Media Launches Self-Help Video Platform by Gavin O'Malley,
Competing for a share of the informational video market, upstart One Minute Media has launched its own platform for one-minute, brand-integrated videos, "Know it in a Minute." A self-described "general knowledge" resource, the site provides short tutorials on everything from massaging a baby to the difference between cold and flu, and gardening with allergies. Read the entire article
Apple recently refreshed their entire MacBook product line – which includes the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air – with new designs and higher horsepower hardware. The aluminum unibody design, used on the majority of the new Macs, is cut from a brick of solid aluminum. This results in a stronger, more durable notebook, while at the same time reducing the computer's weight. You really have to handle one of these machines to appreciate the leap that Apple has made with manufacturing; they simply feel more solid than any other notebook that I've handled. Read the Article
The New Sony HDR-FX1000 HD Camcorder Delivers Cinematic Film-Look for Amateur Videographers
Are your scripts or screenplays too long? Too talky? Write Brothers (www.screenplay.com) has rolled out a cool software technology that scans a script document and identifies critical words, lines or paragraphs that affect the script’s page count. Then you can cut, edit or change the script to tighten it up. The first version of Streamline is now available. Read This
 Steve Rosenbaum OnMedia
Making Money with Online Video
Over the next five weeks, I'm going to publish a series of five articles to give readers specific tips and tricks to building a business around Broadband Video. As we find ourselves in a shifting economic climate, it's important to remember that there are some overarching trends that aren't going to change as the media world evolves.
Read this Camcorder Review if you shoot HD Video 
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