Last week I was a guest on a panel at Mashable's NextUP NYC event for social media week, New York. We talked about the skills required for modern journalists, and how outlets for journalism and other media continue to evolve.
It's all in the videos. Read more – ‘Mashable NextUP NYC: Emerging Skills of Tomorrow’s Journalist’.
I got a quick tour of recently opened Pizza Paisan in Berkeley, including some time to chat with their master pizziola (pizza chef) recently emigrated from Italy.
They do classic Italian style crust and baking (brick oven and all) but fold in some of the fresh, local ingredients that have made the Berkeley food scene so famous. Read more – ‘Pizza Paisan in Berkeley, CA (video)’.
Didn't know what it was back then, but I shot a quick video of one of Google's autonomous Prius (Prii?) before it drove away from in front of Joya in Downtown Palo Alto. Read more – ‘Google’s Autonomous Prius in 2009’.
Planned, shot, edited and filed all from the iPhone 4- this is my report from the gulf coast early in the week most experts predict the oil from the BP spill will begin to come ashore.
I'm currently on a road trip on my way to become an intern at The New York Times somewhere between the tech reporting and social media desks. Predictably, I picked up a new iPhone 4 on release day, with the hopes that the new camera and editing tools would make it a formidable news gathering device.
While my comrades and I didn't see any oil on the beaches yet, we came across some very interesting preparations underway by the local population, as well as plenty of orange BP sponsored oil protection booms. Read more – ‘Video: News From The Gulf- Planned, Shot, Edited and Filed from the iPhone 4’.
This is a short sampling of some of my video work. All videos here were produced for D:AllThingsDigital, and featured both there at at WSJ.com. In all cases the writing, production and editing are my work. In cases where I’m in front of the camera and it’s following me, I had some videographer help. Hey, [...] Read more – ‘Video Portfolio’.
I’ll periodically be live streaming from in front of the University Avenue Apple store in Palo Alto, CA. I’m covering the fanboy mayhem for AllThingsD, but I figured we could have a little live video too. I’m tweeting the action from @withdrake. Scoble is here, Ben Parr stopped by, and as soon as my intrepid [...] Read more – ‘Live from the Palo Alto Apple Store— Its an iPad Campout!’.
ice folks at the MOTO development group have released this video detailing the performance characteristics of various touch screens on the market. It gets ugly for the Droid.
This is just one performance test, but frustration runs high when you touch it here and it opens something there. Click through to see the video. Read more – ‘You Touch it WHERE? Smartphone Touch Screens Compared by Actual Robot’.
E-Mag designers are paid by magazine companies, not readers. It shows.
No one seems to remember the quiet, indelible, human truths that have driven magazine consumption for a hundred years. It's not too late. Read more – ‘Beautiful E-Mags Miss the Point’.
If you are interested in how the the news is presented and why its broken, I say this. Watch this, laugh, ponder, foment rebellion, repeat. Read more – ‘Rethink the NEWs.’.
Canadian geese have come to dominate the lawns of the city’s beloved Memorial Park. In their Thursday, Oct. 1 meeting, the Cupertino Parks and Recreation Commission took up the unusual problem and discussed goose abatement strategies.
Read more – ‘Who They Gonna Call?’.
A new feature wherein All Things Digital looks at up-and-coming and innovative start-ups you should know about.
This week: A video visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Chris Wetherell and his creation, Brizzly, a Web-based social media reader.
Read more – ‘First Column at AllThingsDigital’.
Reinventing the retirement experience for the rebellious baby boomer. A project deliverable for Stanford's design boot camp. Read more – ‘Design Boot Camp’.
This week we covered the basics of audio recording equipment and then delved into Wordpress Extend and Firefox developer tools.
Read more – ‘Stanford BlogLuck 2.0’.
So I’m almost finished with a fun little project to turn my SF style bike helmet into something a little more useful thanks to some clever tail light integration. That post will be up in the “Projects” page in the next day or two. However, while photographing the light I’m using, something very strange happened. [...] Read more – ‘Case of the Haunted Bike Light’.
Hi Guys, I recently reupped my all access pass for the first time in about a year. I had just created a video and the combo of you $3-$25 pricing strategy and the quality of the new video effects sealed the deal for me. My only concern is that like MOST purchasers, I may have [...] Read more – ‘An Open letter to Animoto’.
Here is a little video mashup from my ride aboard the vomit comet. You can see more pics HERE, but please enjoy the video. I’ve addd a little video from inside the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Lab) where I did my physiological training VIDEO. Its also where they have the 6.5 million gallon pool with the [...] Read more – ‘Video from the Vomit Comet’.
Here are a few videos from my 2008 Sustainable Peoples project. Sustainable Peoples Webisode 1- You Already Changed the World. from E. Drake Martinet on Vimeo. Sustainable Peoples Webisode 2- Faith, Medecine and a New Way Forward from E. Drake Martinet on Vimeo. Sustainable Peoples Webisode 3- Micro Agriculture and a Lifetime of Activism from [...] Read more – ‘Sustainable Peoples Webisodes- Now on Vimeo’.
