One thing I was wondering was why over the years you haven’t adopted more social media tools to supplement the NYTimes stuff – thinking here of Flickr, Twitter and the like. I know there’s an NYTimes YouTube channel, but is this something you and Nicolas have looked at – or indeed use and I’ve just missed it…??

I’ve gotten around to updating my bag in the past months to go smaller and lighter. I ditched the PC a long while back and I’m using a MacBook Pro. I’m also no longer a fan of big SLRs. I now use a nice little Leica to shoot stills while the video camera is on a tripod. I was getting annoyed at clicking sounds from the SLR in the middle of my audio. Speaking of audio: I’m carrying around two wireless mic sets and a shotgun. There are a couple small LaCie 160GB drives in the bag these days. The PD150 is about to be retired. She was a true workhorse. N.Y. Times is shifting to HD and I’ve been playing around with a Canon HV20 for my own personal shooting.

Thanks for the interest and good luck with your projects.