With the launch of YouTube Direct, YouTube is positioning itself as a key intermediary between the media and the public. YouTube Direct is described as “a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users.” Or as Mashable put it, “YouTube is letting anyone launch their own iReport-type site.” Several news organisations are already using the service: ABC News, the Huffington Post,
PDF A student sent me this clip from the British comedy programme, Yes Prime Minister, on who reads the newspapers in Britain. It is very funny, especially because its analysis is spot on. Print
This video, played by Jane Stevens, multimedia instructor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, at the Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop at UC Berkeley, sums up the need for change. In the context of journalism education, it highlights how we need to prepare students for jobs that may not yet exist. The time to do this is now. (Via The X Degree) Technorati Tags: innovation, change, journalism Site
This is probably the best ever song about a news site, Digg, and likely the envy of mainstream news outlets: According to TechCrunch, Kina Grannis, the girl behind the online hit “Digg Song” (video above) has been approached by a record company interested in discussing a record deal. Technorati Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis Site Search Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis Print
ABC’s Merry Miller interviews actress Holly Hunter about an upcoming TV show: (Via Lost Remote) Print
At a time when established TV networks are struggling to work out what their future might look like, Google has a radical idea of where TV is going. Speaking at at iTV Con, a conference about Internet TV, Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, applied the net giant’s approach to television. As we all know, television is facing an identity crisis – lots more niche channels, Youtube, DVRs. This
Online video is set to grow and grow, according to a report by ABI Research. It predicts that the number of people watching video content over the Internet will triple to nearly 1 billion by 2012. ABI Research says “this growth will create a demand for new and evolved monetization models that will help create a multi-billion dollar industry in coming years”. This will hearten news organisations such as The
The launch of Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur; How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy is receiving much media coverage, a lot of it focusing on the fury from the blogosphere. I have not read the book so will refrain from comment. But I can recommend two reviews of it. Dan Gillmor describes it as “a shabby and dishonest treatment of an important
Traditional broadcasters are struggling over how to retain audiences as the web eats into TV viewing. While some like Fox and ABC are investing in internet video portals, CBS has switched tactics. It has realised that it needs to make its video as widely available online as possible, rather than keeping it within its own website. It has admitted that its video broadband channel called Innertube has failed and instead
How can politicians use online video to reach voters? Not by using it as a platform for traditional political message, argued Micah Sifry, co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum. Speaking at the Knight New Media Center seminar on Election ’08, Sifry contrasted the approaches of Hillary Clinton to UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron. In his view, the Clinton campaign is using online video as it would be conventional TV –