BBC should concentrate on quality rather than quantity in online video. At least that’s what Pete Clifton of BBC News Interactive said at Future of News Conference.

“We should think more about what that page does in the round and come up with a piece of video that absolutely complements the text… we should do less video but be much more focused on how it works and give it a higher profile where it can work alongside the story.”

I agree completely, but I would add something extra that maybe doesn’t really apply to news pieces but still… fragments. I may or may not want to see an entire show. Sometimes all I want is a short piece and having the option of going directly to that piece is invaluable. Andraz Tori and others with MMC at RTV Slovenija are definitely onto something with Odprti kop (open pit). Thumbs up for our national public broadcaster for finally doing something exciting and (I’ll dare say it although I cannot confirm) innovative.

For those not fluent in slovene ;) and those that may not understand what it’s all about… in short it’s a service where they combined subtitles (if I remember correctly our public broadcaster is required by law to provide them) with video and in effect making the content searchable, quotable and playable in segments i.e. you have to option to play only the few seconds that are relevant to your search query. They also include links to slovenian chapter of wikipedia which could also prove useful in the future as it expands.

I despise everything Apple, mostly because people, for no apparent reason, tend to turn into sheep at mere mention of white rounded boxes and partly because everytime I find myself around one of their products it tends to die on me. No BSOD or some fancy effect like that either. They just die, freeze or give me some other signal I’m dealing with clearly malfunctioning equipment.

There are two things I do appreciate however:

1. They provide very useful guidelines for Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone By all means follow them for other similar handheld devices
2. They were among the first to support H.264 (otherwise known as MPEG4 part 10). Incidentally, H.264 will be the standard used for slovenian digital terrestrial broadcasting (DVB-T), among other aplications. I wonder if they’ll ever adopt Dirac…

via: What Do I Know

This seems to be a brilliant and brilliantly simple idea from Kodak and one that may well become known as their rise from the dust.

“old” Bayer filter array, used in virtually every digital camera today

new Kodak array

I can imagine John Compton and John Hamilton, the nerds at Kodak, going: “We’ve got millions of them, why do we need so many photosites to detect color?!”

Interview with the brains behind the idea.

more: The Online Photographer post