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Renaming the ‘TV journalist’

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:00:37 +0000

There are no TV journalists anymore. There are video journalists.

— Charlie Tillinghast, an online video guru at MSNBC.com, discussing the effect of the company’s content distribution strategy

People who watch TV and surf the Web simultaneously

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:15:05 +0000

56.9%

during the past month, according to a recent Nielsen study (analysis from Nielsen exec Jim O’Hara here; download the study, the Three Screen Report, here)

Use your computer as a teleprompter

Andrew Chavez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:05:50 +0000

Cueprompter can turn your computer into a teleprompter.

So you’re trying to do a Webcast and you don’t have a teleprompter? There’s software out there to turn your computer into a teleprompter, but you can also use free online services such as Cueprompter.com.

Just paste in your script, click Start Prompter and you’re off. It doesn’t have all the features a desktop software package would have, but it’s not bad for a free service.