How About This: 2009

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Music and an Online Player

Div Share hosts large files and includes players and other resources for sharing. Here's a student music project from Fall, 2008:

The music was submitted by John Sacca as an Intro to Mass Media class project.

Jim Coyle

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Time Lapse: Building Conan's Set

Video from NBC showing the construction of Conan O'Brien's new set for the Tonight Show.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

What's Twitter?

Here, in plain English, is your introduction to Twitter:

This video should give you a good idea about Twitter's basics, but it's a services with many ways to get lost in time and cyberspace - or to find people and ideas that are helpful and socially enriching. I've been using it lately to follow trends and events in a couple of areas, and along the way have been getting to know more about how "cyber friends" spend their day. Hint: We don't usually post what we've had for lunch, etc.

I've added a display of my recent Twitter posts - called Tweets - to the right of this page. Click on the follow me on Twitter link over there Or Here) to go to my Twitter page and see my current feed. And follow me on Twitter.

Jim Coyle

Friday, March 20, 2009

A Video Worth Our Time and Attention

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDeaAOqagww

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Weirton Steel Main Office - The Past

Monday, February 02, 2009

Basic Tutorials on Audio Podcast Editing with Audacity

Here's a behind the scenes look at the way I edit the Spirit and Life Podcast using the Audacity audio editing program. I've divided the process into a series of 15 short videos, concluding with publishing on the Web.

The audio is clear in all the videos, but there is a significant improvement when I switch microphones in segment 9 or so.

Jim Coyle

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Future of Television News

The Wall Steet Journal's website posted this video on January 23, 2009, looking at the future role of television news.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Campus Office Internet Connection Much Slower Now

Here in Egan Hall, the speed of the Internet connection in my office is significantly slower than before the University switched to another internet service provider during the Christmas break. I sure wish I'd saved the earlier test results. Here's a test a ran a couple of minutes ago:

The download speed is about what I've been getting since the semester started - and it's slightly slower than my typical DSL download speed at home. The upload speed here at the office is much faster than my home connection, but today's result is about 1/3 of the upload speed I've gotten in a dozen tests during the past week.

My office connection used to be really, really fast. I hope this is just a temporary problem.

Update: Here's the speedtest for my connection at home "later that same day..."

Sunday, January 18, 2009

President Gerald Ford's Talk to the Nation After Taking the Oath of Office

In my lifetime there have been two out-of-the-ordinary times when a person took the oath of office and became President of the United States. One of those times occurred because of Watergate and the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1994. Here is how Gerald Ford began his talk with the nation immediately after taking the oath of office.

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As MSNBC has made sure we know, they're the source of this clip. It's part of their coverage of this year's Presidential Inauguration events when Barak Obama will become the 44th President of the United States two days from now. As recently announced, we can visit MSNBC and not only read stories and watch and listen to video and audio clips, we can also read transcripts of many videos and jump to different parts of the talks by clicking on that part of the transcript. And as I've done here, we can select clips to embed on other websites.