Rules for video; News Videographer 101 curriculum; Taking chances, being creative and failing; Cat, bass, music mashing, chess and zombie nerds, hit this up.

Rules for Video on the Internet
“Rule Number 1: YOU ARE NOT in control, your viewers are. Rule Number 2: Your viewers time and attention are precious, this is not FRONTLINE. Your pieces should not be longer than 4 minutes, otherwise, chapterize, the viewer can come back and see the rest IF THEY WANT.” Preach it, Koci! Everyone on the NewsVideo list, I hope you’re listening.

Recommendations for video storytelling books
Angela Grant just wrote the video curriculum for journalism schools across the country. Someone fire ‘the godfather’ and give her tenure and an honorary PhD.

Live Earth streaming sets Internet record
“MSN is so pleased for having the Live Earth online streaming rights that they already have announced they broke a new record for the number of live streams for an entertainment program. According to MSN, they delivered 9 million live streams of the worldwide music concerts.”

Freedom to Fail
“Creativity, and great journalism by the way, require a built-in freedom to fail. That is, the ability to try and fail and try again and fail until you get it right. Television news is institutionally averse to failure. We are an extremely risk-averse business. But if we really want to explore greatness in the medium, then we have to change our thinking. We have to embrace failure… embrace it as a good thing.” This is exactly what I was talking about in my ICM interview.

Wide-medium-tight; wide-medium-tight; repeat
“…the main point is just to shoot sequences. A photographer is looking for that one perfect (many times wide) shot to illustrate a whole story in one frame. A videographer must cut up that single shot into sequences of images that can be pieced together in editing to reconstruct the action, illustrating the story.”

Make your videos searchable
Angela rocks again!

ICM Interview: Regina McCombs, startribune.com multimedia producer
“The lessons keep evolving, so what I learned 10 years ago probably wouldn’t be relevant today. Understanding the differing cultures of different media organizations was a tough struggle when I moved from TV to the newspaper. Adaptability is huge.”

Video Ads: Every Startup Has A Different Solution
10 ways to share video and profits from it.

Adding Friends is a Full Time Job, and I am Tired of It!
Seriously. Me too. I have no time, so I am totally half-assing my Facebook profile. (Via Scoble)

Taking chances and being creative on assignment - Edge Books
Trent gets creative on a routine assignment. They run the ’safe’ shot the size of a postage stamp. This is a shout out to Trent all the journalists who continue to try and do something different in the face of media mediocrity.

Stauber On Media Greenwashing
“In this five-minute radio interview Stauber takes aim at BP’s “beyond petroleum” marketing campaign, and Coca-Cola Company’s funneling of twenty million dollars to WWF in a mutually beneficial PR effort that masks Coke’s abysmal environmental and social justice record.”

35 Perspectives on Online Social Networking
“The perspective(s) one has will be very different whether one is a parent with a teenage daughter on MySpace, a marketing executive interested in the target group “14 to 20,” a journalist looking for the next big news story on young people and new media, a youngster using a social networking site as part of everyday life or a researcher investigating how young people are using social networking sites.”

Man Arrested After Telling Women They Were ‘Extremely Beautiful’
This guy is in jail while Scooter Libby walks free.

Weekend fun: Make yourself as a ‘Simpsons’ character
“As part of its promo site for “The Simpsons Movie,” 20th Century Fox has a section that lets you make your own Simpsons avatar.”

Where is the ‘Simpsons’ Springfield?
“USA Today is running a unique contest that blends user-generated media, a movie promotion and a vote of its user-base. The newspaper teamed with 20th Century Fox to hold a contest among 15 towns across the US named ‘Springfield.’” … I swear it’s Illinois. In other news, has Lost Remote hired a Simpsons beat writer or something? Lots of news on the movie.

Horseback riding in VIRGINIA Horses & Equine
Newspaper websites are bad but at least not this bad. Ground breaking use of horizontal scrolling here. (via digg)

Avoiding Walled Gardens on the Internet
This is a pretty interesting perspective on social networking and free sites.

RandomThis - Hard life for an intern
Jack is like Jerry Seinfeld, even when he’s angry and scolding the interns, he’s still kinda jolly and funny. (Via Ryan Sholin)

Fake MPAA Video Download Site Goes Offline
Via digg (obviously)

LEAKED INTERNAL MEMO; ‘SiCKO’ Has Capital BlueCross Exec Scrambling to Respond
So much evil in the world. If you haven’t seen it, you should watch Sicko online

DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract
This one’s all for Hartnett and all the other cat nerds.

GUERILLA PARTY Girl Talk turns Montreal Jazz Fest performance into a mobile street party
Music mashing nerds, rejoice. (via boing boing)

Spinal Tap + Army of Bass Players
Bass nerds, rejoice.

Zombie Food Pyramid
Zombie nerds, do it.

Chess.com: A Social Networking Site For…Well You Can Probably Guess
Chess nerds, count it.

Stoners Busted Video
Isn’t the Internet great?

2007 Florida Society of Newspaper Editors Awards list
Woot.

Tesla Roadster review
If I ever would deem it reasonable to buy a $100,000 car, this would probably be it.

Homey Don’t Play That: 50 things you should never say
Word. … I’m actually kinda ashamed I’ve used some of these recently, but ‘That’s just how I roll.’ Smell ya’ later!