Video, Part 2

• Videoegg - this site has an interesting player and content creator that seem really easy to use. it's also oriented towards specific communities.
• RSS movies
• Democracy Player - a really fancy video player that has channels that update the way podcasts update in iTunes. might be another good way of delivering content.
  

2 articles to consider asyou work on your ideas

these are the sort of links I expect you guys to be posting - if you're not out there looking for new ideas, new tools, new thinking about news - then you're not doing your job. Research, post.

From Terry Heaton (PoMo Blog) - http://www.thepomoblog.com/papers/pomo68.htm about how news of the future has to go niche, news organizations cannnot be everything to everybody (might be interesting to play with the niche idea with your politics idea - go deep on politics)

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from the NYTimes - about how Wikipedia is being used to create news, how people (ordinary people, not the journalists who some of the people who left comments on your ideas think are the ultimate arbiters of quality) put up well-thought out, footnoted news analysis - - - and the high point is that many of the people doing lots of hte posting and editing of these news articles are young people, the folks the news guys are trying to atract.
nytimes - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?ex=1340942400&en=cc8b71c715fcac74&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Video

Here is a bunch of people who recorded video of themselves demanding change in the UK's policies towards climate change, all wrapped up in a fancy flash (I think?) interface. Might be a good way of presenting our videos on the mashup idea.

jeff jarvis on news, video

Jeff Jarvis (buzz machine blog) on user generated news and how news organizations should deal with it.

He describes all the coverage of the iphone release on tech blogs,Digg, andother sites and how the news organizations are going to have to adapt.

Might relate to the video mashup idea you guys were discussing

MORE Feedback

Hi other group people again. Here's the rest of our 5 ideas--feedback welcome. And if you didn't catch the first idea, check that one out below.

1. A website that highlights positive and feel-good news stories. We
were talking about either making this a site on its own that pulls
together positive stories or a site that gives journalists ideas of
positive stories to cover.
2. A site that covers local and state election candidates, listing who
they are and what they stand for. We found that more people aren't
involved in local politics because of a lack of knowledge on the
issues, so a website with candidate profiles for local elections could
serve to get more people involved.
3. A site targeted at senior citizens that focuses in on technology
stories. There was a study that said that a large number of seniors
are online now, but they don't know as much about technology and are
more susceptible to spyware, viruses, etc. This website would help
seniors get information and resources to help them stay prepared.
4. A website that covers Division II and III college athletics,
supplied by correspondents at each school, who would write/film/edit
their own pieces and upload them. Other publications (college or
otherwise) could use the stories/videos with permission as well, to
gain a bigger audience.