video blogging tools of the trade
So is this your idea of fun? Are you a political junkie? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you work well with liltte or no sleep? If the answer to ALL of these questions is “yes”, I suggest you look into a once-in-a-lifetime (or once every four [...]

Posted in Amanda Chapel, Chuck Todd, Grayson Daughters, Jeff Jarvis, John Fox Sullivan, Live TV, Presidential campaign, Steve Capus, Steve Garfield, TV news, Uncategorized, You Tube, big media, blogging, cell phone video, citizen journalism, disruptive media, journalism, live blogging, live streaming video, new media, old media, photjournalism, politics, small tv, technology, tradtional media, video blogging, video enabled phones, video journalist 21 Comments »

Midway through our round the world trip with Secretary of Defense Gates, we made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. Arriving under the cover of darkness we landed in Kabul Sunday evening. We had switched from the E4B to a C-17 for our descent into Kabul. I’ve corkscrewed into BIAP a [...]

Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, C-17, Courtney Kube, DOD, Defense Secretary Gates, Donna Miles, E4B, Guy Raz, Hamid Karzai, Jamie McIntyre, Jim Mannion, Ken Fireman, Kristin Roberts, Mark Mazzetti, Pentagon, Peter Spiegel, Robert Burns, Robert Gates, TV news, big media, blogging, global media, mainstream media, national security, old media, photjournalism, tradtional media, video blogging, video journalist 10 Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Beachwalks, CNN, Chris Abraham, DOD, Defense Secretary Gates, E4B, Jamie McIntyre, Pentagon, Roxanne Darling, Stewart Pittman, TV news, Twitter, big media, blogging, journalism, mainstream media, old media, photjournalism, tradtional media, video blogging, video journalist 19 Comments »