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)

and

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.

Feedback

Dear visitors from mixed groups:

Our first idea, and the one we need the most feedback on, is as follows. We're thinking of putting together a way for people to create their own news show via video. The user would get to add in news clips from a given library and could add in their own commentary. (Kim's post below this one shows how video editing can be done online.) This would presumably be hosted by a news organization who could supply the content (i.e. the clips) in exchange for increased traffic and publicity.

The point? It would allow people to have their voices heard and give them more incentive to get involved.

Feedback welcome. Comment away.

Teammates: Feel free to edit this post or comment to expand on this idea or add in some of our other ideas you're looking for feedback on. I probably missed some details.

-Tyler

for our news of hte day video idea

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/02/25/online_video_editing_the_best.htm

list of sites with video editing on the web

some interesting projects to check out

Here are a couple of sites I ran across while I was surfing today. This is the kind of research you guys need to be doing - what's out there, who's doing what, what are people talking about in terms of new tech and new tools.

I'm always on the lookout for tools regular people can use to create media (since I"m not in the production part of my department). I saw this today on JD Lasica's blog Social Media. He has a project called OurMedia to encourage people to create their own media

here's a directory of tools the project put together - http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/open
and they have a collection of open source/creative commons media people can play with - http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/open ---- videos, stills, audio, even old wax cylinder recordings from the early 1900s.

Another project (that I think got Knight money) - is the 247townhall - they're having a weekend long replaying of an even they had Friday about poverty in America. They have a civic journalism section. It's not particularly innovative, but they have picked an audience (underserved communities) and built up a nice collection of tools. Notice they have included explanations of some of them (see the "what's a tag" link on the civic j page.

A third project that is kind of interesting - outside the traditional newsroom - is described in a post by Jeff Jarvis who writes the Buzz Machine blog. check out storybridge.tv --- http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/21/local-independent-tv/

this isn't a project so much as a discussion about local news - since one of our options for community was the geographic community it might be itneresting. The conversation was started by Jeff Jarvis (yep, i like his blog) - here's a link to the post about local news - lots of comments so far too. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/21/the-future-of-local/

How are the mixed groups going

Week 2 is when you are supposed to be meeting with your ABCDE group and talking about the ideas the team came up with to get (and give) a lot of feedback. And week 2 is about over.

how is that going? Have you all made contact with your groups? Let me know if there are any problems. We need to pick time to get back together next week early for a chat about the ideas and the feedback so we can start developing one idea for August.

Post the times when you're free next week so we can find some overlapping times. A lot of hte discussion can take place on the blog too.


All the ideas will need more research - why will anyone use them, is it some kind of news that the community has identified a need for, will it get people who don't already use the news to be involved, etc. We will also need to start researching techie stuff - how we might pull off the ideas

Kim

What's local news going to look like in 2020?

check out this post on Jeff Jarvis' blog BuzzMachine. The post itself is short - read the many comments. He wants to know what people think news and news papers will be like in 2020. Lots of folks have ideas. SOme relevant to our project

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/21/the-future-of-local/