Knight Citizen News Network has published what looks like an immensely useful online handbook for shooting, editing and publishing video online. The guide has detailed instructions and suggestions for choice of equipment, editing software etc. Smart: there’s also a wiki dedicated to the project. (via RConversation).

Video and multimedia productions is fast becoming essential features of modern news websites, but new independent sites are mushrooming as well. One example is Move30. In their own words:

MOVE30 was created out of a desire to democratize the multimedia landscape. It is a community upload website that showcases multimedia stories whether they are documentary, fiction, video, photography-driven, motion design or animation.

Another recent initiative is Slate V, the good old web magazine’s new video companion. Besides video exclusively produced for Slate V, the new magazine also has best of web video blog.