Got a second? Why not publish your next story?
Last weekend I took my Flip videocamera to a book party, and shot a little video project to make my interview feature more exciting. That little camera is changing the way I tell stories.
I'm not the only one. In our interview with Smith Magazine founder, Larry Smith, we spent a lot of time discussing fast and easy web applications for writers.
In that spirit, I have two great links that will help you explore the mobile writing web this weekend. First of all read Jeff Jarvis' inspiring essay about Reuters/Nokia's mobile journalism project.
This has been one of my favorite new projects, and it was cool to see Jarvis jazzed about the whole thing. If this doesn't make you excited, then you might want to check your writerly pulse:
"I can also see using such video clips as part of larger stories – they become moving and talking pictures. They become part of a multimedia narrative, now that journalists no longer need to pick one medium but can work in them all. In short, we’re not using cameras to make TV with all its trappings and orthodoxies. We’re just making video, video that’s good enough to tell a story."
Then check out the Visual Editors website. Besides having lots of video advice, they also have a great feature on using Twitter as a journalist.