LATE ELECTION VIDEO WRAPUP

If you're looking for some of the U.S. election video clips floating around the Internet, try the Internet Veterans for Truth. The new site has a load of clips, including Eminem's Mosh, Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance and Condaleeza Rice's 9-11 Commission testimony. There are also links to downloads of the complete Fahrenheit 9/11 and Going Upriver, the documentary about Kerry in Vietnam.

From the site:

The Internets Veterans For Truth are a few long-time bloggers, designers, and techies who decided (in slackerly fashion, around the end of last week) that some of the clips that've been floating around online needed to be seen by everybody.

A few catchy slogans, registered domains, and a mess of volunteered hours of encoding, design, dev, and server wrangling later...

Also, we served alongside George W. Bush in the hot, dry Texan jungles of the Internets Deltas.

SOURCE: Doc Searls weblog.
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IT'S ABOUT IMAGES

It's not surprising that traffic at Boston.com soared the day after pigs started flying the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. According to Cyberjournalist.net, by mid-afternoon Thursday, the site passed the 15.5 million page view mark.

It is a little surprising that more than half of those page requests (54 per cent) were for a photo galleries. One gallery, of the Red Sox players celebrating, drew more than 3 million hits, a single-day record.

Show, don't tell indeed.
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IDEAS FOR WIKINEWS

Rebecca MacKinnon, who describes herself as "a recovering TV-reporter-turned-blogger," has a great take on the plans for Wikinews and some suggestions for making it successful.

MacKinnon, who worked for CNN in Japan and China for 11 years, sees an opportunity for Wikinews to overcome some of the problems of mainstream media, if it concentrates on some of the areas of media weakness. She breaks her analysis down into two parts — neutrality and speed of reporting.

Her conclusion on neutrality, after a lengthy and must-read take on objectivity:

....rather than claiming to be neutral or unbiased — which is a loaded claim — ... say that wikinews reflects the point-of-view and reporting abilities of its members ... so if you don't like what it's reporting, join it and contribute what you think will be better reports.

And on speed of reporting, after pointing out Wikinews would have little chance of competing with Reuters, AP and others, MacKinnon suggests filling gaps.

...Wikinews may be best suited not so much for breaking news than for in-depth investigative reporting. These are the kinds of stories that mainstream news media increasingly do not have the time or budgets to support. But strong, hard-hitting, factually accurate investigative reporting is vitally important if you want citizens of a democratic society to be properly informed.

This is good stuff, not only in terms of Wikinews, but for anyone interested in finding ways to supplement or replace mainstream media.

SOURCE: HypergeneMediaBlog, which has much more on wikis.
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