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Blogging At 35000 Feet With the Pentagon Press Corps

May 31, 2007

Jim Long blogging somewhere over the Pacific, en route Singapore Friend and social media rock star Chris Abraham once told me that I blog in the “rarified air” from my perch as a network news cameraman. Today, I blog from the very thin air, 35000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, en route to Singapore with [...]

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Scorched Earth Screeds on Citizen vs. Professional Media

May 1, 2007

Can’t we all just get along? As two of my favorite foils, Michael Rosenblum and Jeff Jarvis were storming the gates of traditional TV at the NAB conference in Vegas, many of the journalists who actually do the “boots on the ground” work of TV news were in Blacksburg, VA, covering the worst single shooting [...]

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The Live Video Revolution

April 26, 2007

As the largest collection of live trucks my colleagues and I had ever witnessed beamed images of the horrifying massacre at Virginia Tech, a live TV revolution was quietly happening on the internet. Prompted by “always on” Justin.tv, suddednly everyone’s video had to be live. Tech evangelist Chris Pirillo was live streaming on Ustream, when [...]

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Jamal Albarghouti Spotlights the Role of Citizen Journalists in VA Tech Massacre

April 19, 2007

On Monday, April 16th, Jamal Albarghouti made a consciously editorial decision that the chaos happening – right there – all around him on the Virginia Tech campus, was something that he should record on his video enabled camera. To fight the wise instinct to protect ones life – to set that aside and decide to [...]

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Horrifying Events at Virginia Tech Highlight Video Enabled Phones

April 16, 2007

Todays terrifying shooting rampage at Virginia Tech is still developing as of this writing. This is how i found out: NBC just called, I’m to hop on a charter out of Dulles. My next post will be from VA Tech. All of the most dramatic video thus far has come from cell phones Sphere: Related [...]

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Today’s Shooting Assignment: The Pentagon’s V22 Osprey

April 13, 2007

photo credit: US Navy Photo No those AREN’T Pentagon correspondents being booted out the back for publishing DOD leaks. Today I’m off to Quantico Marine Base to shoot this wacky chopper..plane..whirly-bird thingy. If nothing else, it’ll be good pictures. Can I just point out tha today is Friday the 13th? Given the lethal history of [...]

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