Digital Communication Technologies

Today’s Agenda

• What is the impact of NetVideo on entertainment and mainstream newspapers?
• Technologies: YouTube, Blip.tv, Current.tv

Housekeeping

• Project updates – Next due date (by Monday, 9 am)
  ** all projects: update on where you are re your timeline; everyone should have set up their external site – link to in
  ** all papers: annotated bibliography (blog post); prefer APA style; at least two scholarly sources, minimum six. Short statement on how each source might contribute to your paper. Papers will be 1400-1700 words and may include photos, charts, YouTube clips. Bibliography will not count towards word count.
• Wednesday – post-class, WordPress lab (put software on your UW sever so that you can experiment with themes, CSS, widgets)

Lecture/Discussion

Alayna – SoundCloud

David – Podcasting

(slideshare?)

Keala – Brightkite

Melissa – LinkedIn

Rachelle – Verified Accounts

Technologies:

• YouTube
• Blip.tv
  * The Mayor At The Movies

• Current.tv

For lab/small group discussion

• What are the primary differences, similarities in these hosting sites? Pluses/minuses?
• How easy/difficult is it to embed a clip into a WordPress.com blog post?
• As an information consumer, what do you like/dislike about online video?

Other resources:

• Online video not killing TV – Nielsen (via RWW), 25 Nov 2008
• TV, Internet, Mobile Use Rising – Nielsen, 23 Feb 2009
• TV finds DVR best friend, not enemy – NYT, 1 Nov 2009
• Top 11 mistakes a show makes, blip.tv
• Zamzar.com – convert files! free!
• TED Talks
• Grammar Girl