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Blog Launched to Help Departing SF Chronicle Employees
Recently, the San Francisco Chronicle announced plans to cut 100 editorial positions — about 1/4 of the newspaper’s editorial staff — by summer’s end. A blog called Chronicle Colleagues Who Care has been launched to help employees transition to new jobs. The blog is edited by Marcus Chan, SF Chron multimedia editor. This blog entry explains what the blog is all about. Losing your job can be devastating. But we, your colleagues at The Chronicle, hope to make it a little less devastating. The goal of this blog is to share information that will help your transition. For those who lost their job, you might want to provide your contact info so we can reach you (either by posting a comment or sending us an e-mail). This also could be the place for you to ask for help, be it on a personal or professional level. For those still at The Chronicle, maybe there’s something you want to offer, be it job leads, career resources, or simply a friendly voice. For starters, we in multimedia want to offer you whatever help we can. If you plan to seek a job in journalism, chances are that you’re going to be asked about your multimedia expertise. Whether you’re a veteran multimedia journalist or someone who still isn’t clear on what a podcast is, please feel free to contact us by email or cell. Think of us as your multimedia consultants (minus, of course, any fee). Editor and Publisher notes that there is also a warning on the website about ex-employees leaving critical comments. The blog also warns angry current or ex-employees to leave their critical comments off the site, noting “…the tone of this blog…is to support one another. No doubt there are plenty of people who are angry about this situation — we ask that you choose another venue to express those feelings. Thanks in advance.” The blog contains links to job openings and job websites as well as new contact information for former colleagues so they can stay connected. A blog certainly can’t make up for the loss of a person’s job but it does look like a helpful tool that would be a good idea for other companies planning layoffs. Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Bob Weber Jr. Launches Kids Cartoon Blog
Bob Weber Jr., the creator of Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids, has launched a blog called Kid Cartoonists that features children’s cartoon drawings. Kid Cartoonists is a weblog for anyone under the age of 18 to submit and display their cartoons. Visit us daily to look for your artwork, or just stop by to enjoy, and be inspired by wonderful, creative cartoons drawn by other kids! Bob Weber Jr. told Editor & Publisher that he gets thousands of art submissions each week and “always felt sad about only being able to publish two a week.” He also told E&P that he will “post as many drawings as time will allow” on the new blog. Posted in New Blogs Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

YouTube to Launch Video ID
Reuters reports that YouTube is close to launching a video fingerprinting technology called video ID that will be tested by Time Warner and Disney. The technology, developed by engineers at YouTube-owner Google, will help content owners like movies and TV studios identify videos uploaded to the site without the copyright owner’s permission, the company said on Monday. The so-called video fingerprinting tools will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said. YouTube has also been testing technology to help identify the audio tracks of video clips with major record labels using technology provided by privately held Audible Magic as early as the first two months of 2007, the company said. Eventually content being uploaded to YouTube will probably be scanned and rejected almost immediately if is found to have copyrighted content. Content owners have continuously complained that they are forced to wait until their copyrighted content is already on YouTube before they are able to get it removed. The article says the video ID will be available for all content providers by the end of this year. Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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