School's out and my summer blogging will be limited or obsessively compulsive... I haven't decided yet.
But here's some "other journalism" that just flew in the e-mail window from a reader who noticed the blog's title -- a visitor from www.LiveNewsCameras.com "The concept is simple, let people watch news as it happens anywhere
in the world... raw, unedited on your computer at work or home," says the e-mail from Andrew Finlayson at FoxTV.com
"It
officially was made public on Super Tuesday (although we had been tinkering
with how to do it for months) with just a couple of feeds focusing on the
Republican and Democratic candidates," he says.
Now the site has 150 streams, and Finlayson predicts the total will double soon.
Alas, I can't get any of them to work on my iBook and http://www.radnetva.com/ municipal WiFi here at home. The connection just grinds to a stuttering stop when the page loads, attempting to automatically stream some video and open a chat window on my screen at the same time... without giving me a choice in the matter. I'll try it again from the office to see how it works with the university's broadband connection, and how the originators keep all that video from being videobabel.
Here's more from Finlayson's mail:
"We
streamed the hearings about Iraq,
we streamed the Pope almost from the moment he arrived to when he went
home... nothing unusual about that... but we also stream the presidential
candidates live every day... sometimes two or three times each a day as they
go around the country. No one else is doing that."
"Imagine
what will happen when every mobile can stream live video... We are working
with such a phone right now. Every major news story could be shown live
from a dozen different points of view."
He says the site's informal motto is "'Veritas
odit moras,' from line 850 of Seneca[base ']s version of Oedipus. It means 'Truth hates
delay.'"
That reminds me of another old proverb, sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, but old enough to have been quoted this way by an English preacher in 1855:
"If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an
express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world,
it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
It is well said in the old proverb, 'A lie will go round the world
while truth is pulling its boots on.'"
For online journalism, I wonder if there's a connection to "re-booting" the computer when all that new media locks it up?
For the less bandwidth-deprived, here's another interesting video project from my long-lost distant cousin, Robb Montgomery... a report on Camp VideoJournalism, a hands-on training program that Visual Editors sponsored in partnership with Viewmagazine.tv and Newsvideographer.com.
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