Hey gang, something new here: I thought I'd try my hand at some gadget reviews. Through the South Florida Final Cut Pro Users Group, I got my hands on this new drive dock.

It looks like a toaster.

For small slices of bread.

The NewerTech Voyager Q drive dock is a quad-interface external drive dock that takes bare SATA drives in a slot on top.

It has a lever on the front, a slot on top, and a black-and-silver kitchen appliance color scheme. Just like your toaster.

But unli… Continue

This is too cool and had to share. Click and drag in the video to look around as it plays. MuchMTV Digital has used this eleven-lens camera for live broadcast.

Way more cool demos, including some radical base jumping at Immersive Media's site. Continue

Folks, some of you may have seen the Poynter piece last week "High Cost, Low
Quality Plague Newspaper Video Efforts."

That article, by Ken Sands, paints a gloomy picture for newspaper video - with which I don't agree. After spending a lot of time delving into our stats, I'm extremely optimistic about online video. Emphatically, our video is on a steady growth curve upwards.

Here is what draws video traffic on… Continue