A Post on Paying Journalists

Maybe it’s because I so enjoy the feeling of being paid for my work, but I think a lot about models for journalist’s compensation. I’ve written about some of those thoughts in my personal blog, CF2 Technotes, and invite you to take a look. Feel free to comment either here or there — I’d like to know what you think about the issue.

New Tool to Start the New Term

Boy, the break was good. Now, though, it’s time to get back to work, and the folks at Lifehacker just introduced me to a very cool (free) tool that should help in a bunch of different situations. MediaCoder Audio Edition converts to and from a whole bunch of different audio formats — this should make moving files back and forth from various sources much easier.

Given the work I’ll be doing this term, I’ll probably also play with the full MediaCoder edition, which converts to and from a huge number of video and audio formats. You can get rather fine control on the encoding parameters (which should come in handy when trying to balance quality/size issues) of various formats, and it seems a very well-supported package.

I’ve found some other great tools I’ll blog about soon…ahh, the fun of talking about gadgets, tools, and toys.