WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

Just in time for WordPress Wednesday. Take some time to update your WordPress installs as well as your plugins.

WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

Posted January 3, 2012 by Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases,Security.

WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K. and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team.

Download 3.3.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin.

I Like This – October 20, 2011

    A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week.

  • New media bypassing TV channels, book publishers – October 18, 2011 – An interesting story. I had been wondering what was taking these large companies so long to dive into production themselves. I think it is only a natural progression of the changes new media is having on the market.

Video from remote controlled helicopter

Cool example of what can be done with high-end cameras and remote control helicopters

Aerial RC Heli Demo – Summer / Fall 2011 from Heli Video Pros on Vimeo.

I Like This – October 13, 2011

I Like This – October 6, 2011

    A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week.

  • Why is Video Hard? Five Shots and Patterns – October 1, 2011 – Never heard of this method before, but it sounds liks something that could jumpstart a lot of beginning new media people. Give it a read!
  • Robots Are Attacking on Street View – September 29, 2011 – Great fun use of available data and a little creativity. Create your own movie today. Unfortunately, my address seems to point to my neighbors home. Oops, sorry about that! (LAUGH)

Elsewhere: Why is Video Hard? Five Shots and Patterns

Never heard of this method before, but it sounds liks something that could jumpstart a lot of beginning new media people. Give it a read! — Douglas

Why is Video Hard? Five Shots and Patterns

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One of the most famous, and useful of these, is Michael Rosenblum’s “five shot” method that he developed training journalists from the NY Times to the BBC. It’s actually something he’s preached since the late 1990s, and those who are fortunate enough to learn it get an insight into shooting better video, immediately.

I’ve successfully used this in the classroom to teach visual literacy, because it hones in immediately on what’s important. The five shot method always prescribes these, shot in this exact order (my handout here):

  1. A closeup on the hands of a subject – showing WHAT is happening
  2. A closeup on the face – WHO is doing it
  3. A wide shot – WHERE its happening
  4. An over the shoulder shot (OTS) – linking together the previous three concepts
  5. An unusual, or side/low shot – providing story-specific context”

Read the entire article

I Like This – September 29, 2011

    A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week.

  • How People Learn About Local Communities: 5 Takeaways – September 29, 2011 – More data on why you and your business need to be engaged in social media — that is where your customer are and where they are looking for you.

I Like This – September 21, 2011

I Like This – September 14, 2011

    A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week.

  • If This Then That recipes to improve your social media use – September 14, 2011 – Think of it like a macro language for your social media use. Be careful, as certain actions could quickly annoy your friends and followers, but some of the personal actions could be quite useful, especially for archiving online data locally or on another service.

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I Like This – June 28, 2011

    A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week.

  • Apple Final Cut Pro X now available on Mac App Store – June 21, 2011 – I am looking forward to seeing people’s response to this latest version of Apple’s flagship video editing software. The $299 price tag certainly helps to get in into the hands of a lot more people. I am all for everyone having the ability to create New Media and a powerful tool like this is bound to help.

I Like This – June 21, 2011

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