Velocix launches free multimedia content delivery systerm

Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Audio, Broadcasting, launch, Video, Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment

A digital delivery service for sites looking to host video, music or games online has been launched today with the creators claiming its as the first free service of its king.
The Velocix Accelerator delivery service provides can support the same media as current systems costing around £5,000 per year, the firm claims.
“Velocix is committed to […]

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk

Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under Top tips for journalists, Standards, Audio, Video | Leave a Comment

Audio-visual: Online news videos/audio recordings/images should complement the story they accompany, not repeat it. Readers will not be happy if you simply ‘double-up’ on content. Tipster: Oliver Luft

Got a tip? Submit it here - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

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BayTSP pilots copyright tracking technology on user-generated content sites

Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under legal, Audio, Copyright, Video | Leave a Comment

File-sharing tracking specialist Bay TSP is to begin trials of video and audio fingerprinting technology aimed at monitoring copyright infringements on user-generated content sites.
The trials, which will use search technology provided by Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (NTT), will allow content owners ‘to monitor and manage how their intellectual property is used online’ focusing on […]

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Media Guardian: Audio: from the picket line of the Express and Star newspapers

Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under strike, nuj, Audio, Editors' pick | Leave a Comment

Audio from The Daily Express and Star journalists and NUJ representatives taking part in today’s 24-hour strike over a below inflation pay rise offer.

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Audio: Regional newspapers compete with football clubs online

Posted on February 5, 2008 - Filed Under football, Audio, Podcast, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment

Leading English football clubs are in competition as web publishers with local and regional newspapers.
Footballing giants, like Manchester United or Liverpool Football Club, have huge online and TV publishing arms which they use as revenue streams and to control the flow of news coming from the club.
But it’s not just the big clubs that have […]

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Editor’s Weblog: Review of Guardian Unlimited’s blogs, videos and web design

Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Audio, guardian, Podcast, Digital video, online communities, blogs, Citizen journalism | Leave a Comment

Neil McIntosh, head of editorial development at Guardian Unlimited, and Ian Katz, executive editor of the Guardian discuss the site’s ‘modest’ approach to video and need for more user interaction with blogs.

According to the report, the site’s blogs section is growing faster than any other part and a recent redesign of the travel section contributed to a 100 per cent increase in its traffic

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Media Guardian: Internet radio attracting weekly audience of 8 million

Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under radio, Audio, Editors' pick, Podcast | Leave a Comment

New survey from RAJAR suggests move into the mainstream for internet radio with a weekly audience of 8.1 million internet radio listeners in the UK.

A further 2 million people download podcasts weekly, the survey says

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Press Gazette: New kit lets BBC radio reporters file live audio over web

Posted on January 17, 2008 - Filed Under Audio, Editors' pick, Technology, BBC | Leave a Comment

BBC Radio 4 used the New Hampshire presidential primaries to test out a new piece of kit which allows reporters to feed live audio back to the studio over the internet

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