Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Robert Scoble sets the theme for his keynote at the Online News Association conference in DC by doing something that wasn’t possible a year ago – video streaming his talk live via a mobile phone.
This changes journalism, he argues, as people can send questions as an interview takes place live.
Scoble says this takes advantage of the audience, who is smarter, richer, more educated than anyone on this stage. So a journalist can use these new platforms to use “the crowd smarts” to ask questions.
The talk turns out to be a tour of Web 2.0 communication tools and how they are changing the nature of how we interact with information.
Scoble moves on to talk about Twitter, demonstrating the power of micro-blogging. He cites how he found out about the China earthquake through TwitterVision before it was reported.
Next Scoble looks at Friendfeed, which is a powerful tool to find out what the web is reporting. He says Friendfeed allows him to communicate in a much deeper way than he could a few years ago.
The conversation can go beyond text, with Scoble explaining how Seesmic works. Seesmic provides a platform for video conversations, or video comments on stories. What he doesn’t address is whether people want to engage in these video conversations.
He also explains how to uses Google Reader for media-snacking. He has 500 friends on Google Reader, so every Monday, he has a host of material that he would have never come across – serendipity in action.
There is a theme in the keynote somewhere, but Scoble is not making those connections. The overall theme is how there are now ways to make connections, gather and exchange information in ways there were unknown just a couple of years ago, with the emergence of tools to navigate this wealth of data.
One of the most interesting aspects of Scoble’s talk is the backchannel discussion talking place on Twitter.
It feels like been plugged into a hive brain of the digirati and serves as a perfect example of the ‘crowd smarts’ that Scoble mentioned at the start.
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Really? You don’t say? Wonder where he made this “breakthrough discovery?” Perhaps Cathy Brooks work at IDF and elsewhere this year, hmmm??? Where are the proper credits to the people who SHOWED HIM THIS STUFF? Since when does the REPORTER get all the cred, and the actual INNOVATORS renamed to anonymous “someones?” Answer: since always: until now.
THIS is the promise of Social Media. WE are about to reclaim our innovations for ourselves. WE are the content and that value shall soon accrue to its source, as it should. WE are the news and the news MAKERS and WE are about to cut out as many of the middle men as possible.
Andy Warhol would be ecstatic.
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I share and link to more people than anyone else in the blogosphere. Just follow my various feeds to see me handing out credit. I was the first to use cell phone videos, though. I know Cathy Brooks, though, went to Israel with her and she is inspiring.
Thanks for the comment Michael. Robert didn’t take credit for the social media tools. He was more of an evangelist for them, showing how they meant he was more connected to more information and more people than ever before.
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[...] La web social y cómo puede ser útil para los periodistas fue sin duda la estrella de la conferencia, que aplicó lo que predicaba agregando las aportaciones de los participantes a Twitter y Flickr. En ONA se subrayó cómo las herramientas que permiten compartir y rastrear lo que se está diciendo en la web social pueden ser una buena herramienta para conseguir ideas para nuevas noticias antes de que entren en la agenda mediática, o para usar la inteligencia colectiva para responder a preguntas lanzadas por los periodistas. Friendfeed, Tweetscan, Twittervision… son algunos de los ejemplos que se comentaron. Otros, como Publish2, son espacios cerrados pensados para que sólo los periodistas dados de alta puedan compartir enlaces a información relevante. Vía E-Media Tidbits y Reportr.net. [...]
[...] La web social y cómo puede ser útil para los periodistas fue sin duda la estrella de la conferencia, que aplicó lo que predicaba agregando las aportaciones de los participantes a Twitter y Flickr. En ONA se subrayó cómo las herramientas que permiten compartir y rastrear lo que se está diciendo en la web social pueden ser una buena herramienta para conseguir ideas para nuevas noticias antes de que entren en la agenda mediática, o para usar la inteligencia colectiva para responder a preguntas lanzadas por los periodistas. Friendfeed, Tweetscan, Twittervision… son algunos de los ejemplos que se comentaron. Otros, como Publish2, son espacios cerrados pensados para que sólo los periodistas dados de alta puedan compartir enlaces a información relevante. Vía E-Media Tidbits y Reportr.net. [...]
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