What print folks can learn from video editors; The Shift is happening; 10 reasons things are bright for journalism; Why is Chicago, Chicago?; The Zorse

Hey gang,
I’m heading out to St. Pete (sans computer) for a Poynter party this weekend, so things might get quiet around here for a few days. If you’re in the Tampa Bay area and want to kick it, holla at me and we’ll meet up.

Have a great weekend!
Will

P.S. (Image via Found Magazine)

Blurring Boundaries: What Print Journalists Can Learn from Video Editors
Regina raps about, “Expert editors of video and sound offer ideas to multimedia journalists about effective storytelling with new tools.” (Basically, how newspaper/multimedia folks can get over their egos and learn from TV professionals.)

The Shift
“You might find you now work for a Web company that publishes a newspaper a few times a week.” Bob Cauthorn, Jeff Jarvis and many other people called this a while ago, but for those of you who didn’t take it serious then, here’s a rehash of what could be.

Saving Newspapers
“It’s painful for me to see us ever under-invest in content and audience aggregation even if in the short run we have to accept lower margins. It’s nothing compared to the absence of margin that Amazon got by with for a decade. Look at the kind of share that they built and the brand that they built and the kind of user loyalty that they built. In our local communities, we are just as well-known there as Amazon is on a national level. To me, it’d be a real shame to see the industry starve the investment that’s needed to take advantage of that opportunity.”

10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism
“There’s been a lot of debate lately about the future of newspapers, the future of TV, the future of radio — the future of journalism itself — in the face of drastic change brought by technology and the Internet.”

Project Red Stripe - And the idea is…
“We are developing a web service that harnesses the collective intelligence of The Economist Group’s community, enabling them to contribute their skills and knowledge to international and local development organisations. These business minds will help find solutions to the world’s most important development problems. It will be a global platform that helps to offset the brain drain, by making expertise flow back into the developing world. We’ve codenamed the service “Lughenjo”, an Tuvetan word meaning gift.” Sounds cool. Should be interesting to watch (hopefully they’ll be transparent and blogging all the cool developments).

Goodbye, Vinny.
Knox News redesigns, gets the hell out of Vignette’s Content Management System into Ellington. Erin video blogs about it. Jack Lail has more on the design evolution of the site.

YouTube: 50% More Traffic than Other Video Sites Combine
“YouTube’s growth has not begun to slow yet this year. Hitwise traffic data shows that the market share of US visits to YouTube has increased by 70% when comparing January 2007 to May 2007 (this only includes site visits, not streams or streams from views on embedded videos). In comparison, the market share of visits to a custom category of 64 other video sites increased by only 8% in that period. As of May 2007, YouTube’s market share was 50% greater than those 64 sites combined.”

The art of the IM interview
Great tips from Bryan on doing a vitual interview for those who IM interview virgins.

Video Journal: A video guide to Second Life
Nerdtastic piece from Colin Mulvany.

Dinner and a PowerPoint? ‘Working Dates’ Catch On
“You’ve heard of working vacations. Now comes “the working date.” Many single people are so busy with careers that they don’t have time for a social life. So they’re increasingly blending work and romance.” Surprisingly, no, this isn’t from The Onion.

Ask Chicagoist: Why is Chicago called Chicago?
My response: Because “Greatest City in the History of Earth” has too many syllables.

Zorse is half zebra half horse
Whoa.

Professional Porn Sales Down | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Just like newspapers! And it’s funny because it’s true, the Internet is changing a lot of business models. (Although, it’s the Onion, so it’s not really true.)

And of course, I wouldn’t be a good tech blogger to not mention something about the iPhone:

• AT&T Internal Apple iPhone document leaked. Prepaid iPhones, unboxing, credit checks, and more!
  I love the internet. (via digg)
• Steve Jobs: Free iPhones for Apple Employees, Town Hall Notes
  “According to ThinkSecret, Steve Jobs held a company-wide town hall today and announced that Apple employees will get free 8GB iPhones this July. This applies to all full-time Apple employees as well as part time employees who have been with Apple for more than 1 year.”
• AT&T customers seeing sudden boost in EDGE speeds?
  Man, if this is true and it sticks, the iPhone just got a whole lot more appealing to me.
• iLoyalty
  “Why would someone camp out overnight in front of an Apple store (even in the rain) when they could probably walk right in, or at least wait in a shorter line, to buy an iPhone at a nearby AT&T store? Because of many things having to do with the care and feeding of a brand with cultish devotion, iLoyalty is never rational.”