links for 2008-03-20
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- [Avid Unveils “New Thinking” for 2008](http://www.avid.com/company/releases/2008/080317_newthinking_avid.html)
Avid move stuff around and get more social but putting an MC badge on Xpress to make MC look cheaper seems backwards. Make a sub $800 avid xpress lite and scoop up some of that Vegas/FCexpress market
- [War reporting: two online reports – spot the difference « Online Journalism Blog](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/03/19/war-reporting-two-online-reports-spot-the-difference/)
Paul Bradshaw picks up on ITV’s and Reuters take on behind the scenes war reports. “In both these examples of online journalism the implicit question is ‘Why are we doing this?’ The answers provided by the two pieces could hardly be more different.”
- [GraphicPlanet Creative » Blog Archive » iPhone To The Rescue!](http://graphicplanet.com/2008/03/11/iphone-to-the-rescue/)
Interesting idea to use the iPhone as a storyboard aid
- [Social Media: Flickr rolls back key feature](http://www.socialmedia.biz/2008/03/flickr-rolls-ba.html)
“Perhaps I’m imagining this, because it is hard to believe it’s true, but it looks to me that Flickr has eliminated a key feature — no, the key feature — of its site.” You can no longer embedd photos. !!!!You can no longer embed photos.
- [BBC revamps guidelines on social networking sites « Reportr.net](http://reportr.net/2008/03/20/bbc-revamps-guidelines-on-social-networking-sites/)
“The BBC has been debating the ethics of taking material from social networking site. But these guidelines fail to tackle this area”
- [Is writing for search engines a dead strategy? Update your methods to stay out of the graveyard | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion](http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/03/20/social-media-the-future-of-search-start-sharing/)
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