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*1. Watch this video about the Gaza tunnels to understand the story behind them.

*2. Find out how old your car is in human years.

*3. How do those yellow lines get inserted in NFL coverage?

4. Top online advertising trends for 2009

5. Eight trends in real estate in 2009

6. 2009 trends in bariatric surgery

7. Why grocery inflation could ease in 2009

8. The Urban Land Institute's commercial real estate forecast for 2009. (This is grimmer than grim.)

9. Fourteen predictions about social media in the year ahead

10. National Public Radio's 2009 music predictions (with a little help from an astrologer/psychic.)

11. Predictions about wine in 2009 

12. Twelve CMS-related predictions for the upcoming year. One thing is for sure: Metadata tagging and Web analytics will be vital for sites.

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NPPA Best of Television Winners Announced on Noon Webinar
You can still watch the announcement of the National Press Photographers Association's biggest television awards: the Stations of the Year, the Photographer and Editor of the Year and special judges' awards.

You can watch the announcement on Poynter's NewsU site.

You can view the winning entries on Poynter Online as soon as judges complete each category.

And you can read judges' comments on each category.

The judges were surprised by the high quality of the Web video entries this year. The contest also included more Spanish language entries than ever.

Don't forget that Poynter offers a wide range of video storytelling and online storytelling seminars. I have a couple of seats still open for our backpack journalism seminar in April, but you have to contact me right away.

We also are offering an advanced multimedia video seminar in August, featuring as guest faculty Regina McCombs  (star-tribune.com, former TV photojournalist) and Andre Jones, freelance photojournalist, former CNN photojournalist.

Go here to see the other Poynter multimedia seminars.



Posted by Al Tompkins at 1:46 PM on Mar. 7, 2008
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