Careers in New Media and Podcasting

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 [...]

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Much the Facbeook Like button, today’s announcement of Google’s +1 button and others, Twitter recently announced a new Follow button that can be easily added to your blog or web site. This follow button allows readers to add you to their Twitter timeline so they see your Twitter updates. For example, here are the follow [...]

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Some great advice on using your iPhone for journalism or any new media production, including software and hardware recommendations — Douglas   How to get the most out of your iPhone as a reporting tool By Lauren Rabaino on April 15, 2011 5:00 AM Increasingly, iPhones are becoming acredible, convenient and reliable tool for journalists [...]

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I came across this new Kickstarter project for a 360 Panoramic Lens that allows you to take 360 interactive video on your iPhone 4. A $50 pledge gets you on of the products if the project gets fully funded. I could see making use of something like this for my Places LA videos where I [...]

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world today, whether you are using the free hosting of WordPress.com or running a self-hosted blog on your own web site. Along with all the power the WordPress carries, though, is a responsibility to keep your blog as secure as possible. There are many [...]

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# 8 Apple Final Cut Express Video Editing Software While Apple’s iMovie is quite functional for creating most podcasts and web shows, there will come a time when you will want (or need) to step up to a more fully-featured video editing system. Final Cut Express gives a place to grow without hitting your pocketbook [...]

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? I get a lot of questions every day and here is a one from today… Q: Seth Godin uses TypePad. Is WordPress hyped VS a Reg. Website and using Typepad as your blog platform? I like WP but seems like it has to be watched like a hawk for it not to freeze up [...]

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? I get a lot of questions every day and here is a one from today… Q: How do I set up a WordPress or WordPress.com blog to use a static page as the opening screen instead of a list of blog posts? A: I first turned to the WordPress Codex to give me some [...]

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I have been blogging for a long time, even before there were any blogging services to help out with the process. I used to edit a text file that automatically loaded into my home page in an early proto-blog experiment. When Blogger.com came along, I took too it immediately. It simplified things a lot and [...]

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I received a WordPress emergency email from a friend/client last night and I wanted to share both the problem, and the solution, with you. Now, I am far from a WordPress expert, but having faced some issues myself, her problem was one that I could solve. The Problem My friend was trying to modify an [...]

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I received an interesting call from a friend yesterday that is leading me down an interesting New Media road. Our friend is also a teacher at my son’s school, so when her son was preliminarily diagnosed with the H1N1 flu virus, there was a bit of concern. She showed no symptoms herself, but the school [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed SBHosting.com posted an interview I did last week talking about the uses and differences between WordPress.com‘s hosted blogs and the WordPress software available from WordPress.org. Listen to the entire interview (30 Mins) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] WordPress.org Vs WordPress.com With Douglas Welch On [...]

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DrupalCampLA is all about Drupal, a high-end yet free content management system for building amazing, interactive and community driven web sites. If you need to branch out beyond the typical web site fare, Drupal could be for you. Furthermore, the Drupal users of LA are a great group of people, freely sharing their expertise and [...]

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The Conversations Network has announced the latest version of their free Levelator audio utility. This easy-to-use program for Windows, Mac and Linux can help bring your podcast audio up to new levels of quality. From the web site… About The Levelator™ So what is The Levelator? It’s software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal [...]

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Celtx is an open source screenwriting program with great tools that easily rival commerical products like Final Draft and others. I have used Celtx to write several scripts and my television writing wife, Rosanne, recommends it to her students whenever she teaches television writing at Cal State Fullerton or UCLA Extension. Celtx 1.0 adds many [...]

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