Megan Cunningham and I are in San Francisco for the week taking part in BAVC's Producer's Institute for New Media. It is an oppurtunity for independent producer's to workshop their documentary projects in an interactive forum. Nine groups (of three each) are here participating for 10 days and they have a wide range of exciting projects they are working on. Today, Megan is part of a panel entitled New Media/New Meaning (being presented at KQED). Tomorrow, she and I are giving a presentation called Remodeling Your Content: TV to Multiplatform Distribution.

Adobe announced yesterday that CS3 is shipping - which is sooner than most people were predicting (many were assuming it would be April 20th, which is what Amazon let slip last month).

This week's guest is acclaimed wedding photographer Bambi Cantrell. Her photos have appeared in Martha Stewart Living and Time Magazine and many more magazine, and she's one of Microsoft Icons of Imaging. She's got great insights into the business and art of what she does, as well as a refreshing candor.

Well my talk went great today @ PodcampNYC and I'd like to thank everyone who attended for their questions and comments. Hopefully they enjoyed it as much as I did. Since so many people were talking about the process of making a video podcast, I stuck solely to the topic of video compression for the podcaster - talking about the concepts of compression and offering some ideas for improving the quality.

It's the weekend and for some strange reason,I'm not sitting on my couch with a cup of coffee. Nope, I'm at PodCampNYC - the unconference for podcasters.

Its a day long event full of sessions ranging from production values to social networking idea, to plenty of niche podcasting genres (I saw puppets, knitting and sports all accounted for on the schedule).

This week's guest is legendary black and white photographer Rodney Smith. A master artist who has garnered numerous accolades, including being named one of PDN/Kodak's Legends, Smith spoke candidly in our interview about the purpose of photography.

This week's guest is Rolando Gomez, a photojournalist who made the switch to glamour photography a few years back. A popular lecturer and author, Gomez believes that photography is about a lot more than just taking pictures. The author of Garage Glamour, he's the expert on beauty, and shares his insights on getting the most out of a shoot.

Even if you aren't into Nine Inch Nail's music, you should really check out their new offer, "Year Zero." Not just the music (which I admit, I like, but isn't really what I normally listen to), but the free Garageband version posted to their website. Not that NIN is mastering their songs in Garageband (I believe I read they use Pro Tools, but bounced each track out individually to create the Garageband version, though I can't lay my hand on the source of that).

My guest this week is Flynn Larsen, who's done quite well for herself in the stock photography market. She shares some of her secrets in this interview recorded at PhotoPlus Expo. From The Judith Miller, Inc. website:

My guest this week is Flynn Larsen, who's done quite well for herself in the stock photography market. She shares some of her secrets in this interview recorded at PhotoPlus Expo.

This week's guest is photojournalist Phil Borges, who has traveled the world documenting the lives of indigenous peoples.

There are a lot of us around the ZIO shop who are Battlestar Galactica fans but I haven't heard anybody mention this yet.

There was an announcement this week on BSG's website that they are running a contest for viewers to edit together their own four minute clip of the show. Here's the instructions:

Klaus Thymann is a leading commercial and editorial photographer who creates all of his shots in-camera, eschewing any kind of digital retouching. Odd angles and meticulous set design, combined with a willingness to push himself to pull off complicated shots give Thymann's work a compelling beauty and urgency.

Now that the text has been placed and aligned, Russ explores the flexibility and options we have for formatting all of our text using CSS.

This week's guest is John Thompson, director of the inventive Sundance short Songbird. He talks with Megan Cunningham about the techniques he used in this weird, original film.