TechCrunch article by Sarah Perez For months, Youtube employees have been beta testing the conversion of 2D videos into 3D. Finally, the tool has been released that allows users to upload and watch videos in 3D. When filmmakers create 3D movies, they shoot two videos and once and combine them to make the 3D effect. […]
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I grew up in the most historical town in the country - Fredericksburg. I have since moved to Fairfax to further my education at George Mason University.
‘Youtube adds a “Play in 3D” option across its site’
Posted by: rachwould | April 5, 2012 | No Comment |‘Educator suspended when she refused to show her Facebook profile’
Posted by: rachwould | March 30, 2012 | No Comment |Mashable article by The Daily Dot This topic is a hot commodity with the government today. More and more employers are asking prospective employees for their passwords to their Facebooks upon interviewing. One of the recent cases is of a teacher in Michigan, Kimberly Hester. Hester was suspected of posting a picture of a co-worker […]
‘Twitter updates TweetDeck, Allows users to edit and retweet’
Posted by: rachwould | March 22, 2012 | No Comment |Mashable item by Christina Warren The new TweetDeck is now downloadable to Google Chrome. It has many of the features that Twitter had when it was first released. The update is now bringing back many of the features that users have missed from the original Twitter. For example, users can now have more flexibility with […]
JournalismNext by Mark Briggs This chapter is about embracing the digital world into your life. Briggs starts by acknowledging that people get frustrated by all of the recent developments in this field. There seems to be a million ways to do most things when it comes to the internet. He empathizes with those that know […]
JournalismNext by Mark Briggs This chapter highlights the importance of video in journalism. Many stories are best told with video. Other forms of reporting wouldn’t have the same effect on readers and viewers. Video can evoke feelings that pictures can’t always. Nowadays, high school students are taking classes that teach them how to shoot and […]
‘Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Blogs than Twitter’
Posted by: rachwould | March 8, 2012 | No Comment |Photo from Mashable Mashable article by Lauren Indvik To the surprise of most social media outlets, Pinterest has been increasingly (inadvertently) promoting online publishers. The company has been driving more traffic to these companies that than Twitter. In January, Shareaholic did a study that showed Pinterest was sending more referral traffic to these publishers than […]
Photo from FindtheBest This workshop was an extension of the Photoshop workshop that I took earlier in the week. I was somewhat discouraged when I walked in because we began working on things that we had done in the first lesson. Beneficially, we elaborated much more on the techniques that we learned the class before. […]
Photo from BMSoftware This workshop was especially helpful for me because it will apply to my future career. As a journalist, or a PR person, it will be important for me to know how to create pictures that are aesthetically pleasing. I have taken AVT180 (Computers in Creative Arts), which gave me a foundation before […]
JournalismNext by Mark Briggs This chapter is about building a digital audience for news. The importance of this is that your contribution to news actually gets out there. Briggs provides some helpful points to gain an audience and keep it. Firstly, he stresses the importance of analyzing what you publish, and listen to what your […]
JournalismNext by Mark Briggs In this chapter, Briggs discusses the pros and cons with news as a conversation. First order of business, he dives into the idea of comment boxes on news stories. He makes the point that people have always commented on stories in their free time, but that the technological comment boxed has […]
