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/

Ideas

Ok, this past week and the weekend before have really sucked for me. I've had internet trouble and computer trouble, plus my grandfather had major heart surgery that didn't go as well as it should have. So my week has totally sucked and I apologize for slacking. But here are my ideas:

1. The first idea I had was to create a virtual world online. This virtual world would show how people in places like the Sudan live and cope with the issues that come up living in war. It could be expanded to show life for people in other countries as well, like Israel, or China, or Saudi Arabia, anywhere where there is suffering and needs to be helped. This would be directed toward people who have the resources to help. I thought this would be a good idea because a lot of people don't understand how lucky Americans are just to live in the U.S.

2. Another idea was a virtual Iraq. Use real people as an example. Say SSG Joe Cool has to do such and such each day, then people who use this can see what really happens in Iraq and what kind of conditions our soldiers are living in. I think this could be directed toward the families of those in Iraq or have been to Iraq.

3. I started thinking about what a church community might want to know. And I thought missionaries. Local, national, and international. I was thinking a website that doesn't just focus on missionaries from one religion like Baptist or Muslim, or from one place. The website would have news about progress being made, missionary safety, where help is needed (more than just Jesus, but building homes, food, childcare, education, ect.). I don't think there is anything like this because all the sites I've found are focused on a specific religion spredding and a lot of them don't really have "news" about missionaries on the field or how people could help them. I think a church community would be very interested in this site.

I have some more ideas but my internet time is limited. I will post the rest tomorrow.

Curve Ball

Hey guys,

I've been thinking. I think a lot of these ideas are great, but I feel like a lot of them aren't out of the ordinary. So I'm going to throw out one of my remaining ideas, that seems straight out of left field, but might have possibility.

**Create a Web site that is based non-fiction mini-movies that present the news in a non-news, movie-like style. It would be headlined with everything you'd find in a paper--news, international, local, living arts, sports, business, money, etc. and take the major headlines from the week. At the end of each week, developers could edit "mini-movies" of the news and deliver is as a package of the weekly events..........this is probably confusing, so here's an example of what I'm trying to get at.

Everyone's watched VH1's Best Week Ever most likely, or at least heard of it http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/best_week_ever/series.jhtml. That show takes the week's headlines and develops it into a comical, but insightful show. The use of audio clips from online news broadcasts are readily available under all television news channel's web pages at this point (abcnews.com for example). If you watch this link to last week's show of Best Week Ever, you can see how the show uses an array of audio/video clips from the major news channels to demonstrate many different opinions (when they are talking about the ending of the Sopranos for example). VH1 takes clips from Inside Edition, Regis and Kelly, and The View and takes clips from legitimate opinions/responses about the news, after giving a summary of the news.

A recap like this could fit any niche, as long as there's enough prior information/audio/video/photography of an event the event when it occured during the week. I think reporting news in this type of form would really attract younger crowds, that don't necessarily care about cold hard facts (like newspapers present), but want to just get an idea of what the big stories and news is in the country/world.

I don't know if anyone wants to piggy back this idea, or team it up with an idea. I'm not too sure. I just wanted to bring a creative element to the board and see if anyone jumps on it, or if it stirs up any other thoughts out of people.

Cheers.

always good to check out new and upcoming business ideas

http://www.springwise.com/weekly/2007-06-20.htm

Springwise publishes a trends newsletter and has a database of cool ideas - definitely worth a look - what can we adapt to our communities

Here are my top 5 ideas, I'll post 5 more less developed ones and see if anyone can come up with something, or if they can pair up with other ideas. Steve, I love your ideas, they all seem really developed and well-thought out. I like the idea of a personal news team, too. Anyway, here are my ideas:

1) Develop a Web site about college sports, mainly Division II and III considering they get the least publicity on major stations like ESPN and the major news channels. Users (which would be aimed at journalism/mass comm. majors) can upload pictures, videos, audio, and stories about games, players, or teams onto the site and it would be organized by divisions, conferences, and teams. For instance, if I filmed, edited and added audio to a 3 minute piece that recapped the St. Michael's men's lacrosse season, I could upload it to this Web site and make it available to the public. Local newspapers and online sources can then get ahold of these uploads (especially articles) and use them as sources to generate their own stories. It would be sort of a press release for other news sources, to get small, unheard of stories out to the public.

2) Develop the same type of Web site but make it all photojournalism based. Allow students with a legitimate college e-mail address to upload their pictures from their school's newspaper and make it available to the public. It could go even deeper into possibly creating a free trade network of pictures, or for images that are extremely rare or in the news spotlight (i.e. a picture from inside the buildings when the V Tech shooting was going on) would be downloaded by other users at a price. Basically this Web site would be like the Associated Press of the college news industry.

3) Design a Web site that allows users to "create their own newspaper." Some people only want the sports section while others want the front page news. So my idea is to create a digital newspaper, that looks like a spread and is written like print media. This could be good for the niche of people that love newspapers; it would be a newspaper online that looks like a newspaper, it's not written in a new form to fit the online media style. So someone that likes reading about the top news stories would have a home page on this site that looks like the front page of a newspaper and is filled with the top stories, filtered from the major newspapers (i.e. NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal).

4) Create a Web site that takes all the major headlines around the country, and assign bloggers/journalists to write a story exactly opposite of what it's saying, to create complete opposition. For instance, today President Bush the stem cell bill, saying "I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line." Credit this article to NY Times. Then, flip the story around explaining why we should be in favor of stem cell research (is President Bush's decision a conflict of church and state? will this block thousands of lives that could be saved if the bill was passed?) By doing this, people will no longer be victims of news outlets slants (Fox right, CNN left) and instead will get two stories from the same source, allowing the person to take their own opinion on it, but be fully informed.

5) Create a Web site that is about global news, and import all the news from news sources other than AP, Reuters, etc. Importing pictures and stories from media outlets like BBC is better because they usually have correspondants in these countries, and it wouldn't be a generic story (or picture) like AP provides. By importing stories/pictures from unique sources like Al Jazeera.net (http://english.aljazeera.net/English) news will be more fair and balanced, from sources outside of the US and possibly cover stories that the US news medias are forced to censor because of FCC regulations. For instance, if a picture was posted of a line of coffins with American flags covering them (a picture of dead soldiers being flown home, which would never make a front page in the US because of government censors), allow this to be posted on the Web site. I guess what I'm getting at with this idea, which is hard to explain, is create some kind of Web site that tells it how it is--no politics, no claim to fair and balanced coverage, just truth. The age old saying of "a picture's worth 1000 words" would be the backbone of the concept. By headlining photos as the main story, with detailed cutlines, I think news would have more impact on viewers, especially as more and more people are visual learners.

Ideas for Mixed Groups

Here are the ideas Steve and I agreed on taking to the mixed groups:

1. A combination of Steve's website for story ideas with Matt's site focusing on positive stories.
2. My idea on a resource running down all the candidates in an election, but focusing on local and state elections instead of a national one, to get more people involved locally.
3. The technology website for senior citizens.

we can take 5 ideas to the mixed groups, so input on these ideas and 2 more would be good. feel free to add, everyone.

Story Ideas (Set One)

These are the ideas that I have spent the most time on:

1) Story Incubator

With all this new feedback-ready, user created content type stuff, I think maybe we focus too much on the consumer and expect him to become a creator. Maybe we can somehow help or create something for the creators or distributors that would help them push that content out.
So this idea struck me when I was doing some research for producers at CBS... what about creating a resource for journalists (professional and personal) to help generate story ideas?
I know its like "shouldn't journalists be able to find their own stories?" Well yes. But I'm also sure that many stories go unreported because many stories are never identified as stories.

We could create a system where a person finds a problem in his community, goes home, logs on to a facebook/digg.com database (of course) and posts an idea for a story. At the same time the journalist who is about to do another story on Paris Hilton finds this great story within the community on StoryIdeas.com (or something). Boom, many winners. I think it would be a useful website for many different parties. thoughts?

2) The Article Review

Aimed for our generation. A database of stories that cover the same news event set up for review and comparison. For instance: lets take the whole Paris Hilton going to jail thing. The database will compile as many articles as it can from different sources around the country and submit them to a side-by-side, slick looking, flash comparision.

Then anyone from The Article Review community can judge, rate and post comments on the calibur of each article based on balance, bias, talent, creativity, slant and spin. The best written article based on user comments will be displayed in full graphic at the top, so viewers who are just in it to read the best journalism can do that. The same can be done for TV packages on the web as well.

3) The Freelancers

Aimed at "the web" generation. The Wanderer for news but more comprehensive and home-based (for your PC or MAC). Instead of just one dude, a slew of characters invade your desktop, each covering a different piece of news, updated every hour on the hour. This is not a webpage, allthough webpage based. The animated, 2D, fully functional and voice operated characters sit right on your desktop. For Instance: if you want sports, select Chip the sports character and he will give you a 2-5 minute breakdown of the major sporting events of the day and specifically the past hour. If nothing has happened in the past hour, then he'll rap with you about something going on in the sporting world or give his opinion on a series a game or a play.

All the characters have different personalities (based on what news they cover) and they each cover different events (hard news, features, sports, entertainment/gossip, tech, etc.). Hip, animated newscast with style. Drag them anywhere on the desktop or load to podcast. Community website where you can download more content or leave forum-style comments on each of their own personal webspaces. So you can leave "chip" a message. etc etc.

4) Red vs. Blue

Competitive news commenting. This may be a little ridiculous, but if we're talking popularity, this thing may sell. Professional articles and political issues are posted on the RvB website. When you click on an article or issue a page loads with the aritcle in the middle with a red column and a blue column. When you register for the site, you register as either a conservative or a liberal and whenever you click on an article you may post in either the blue (liberal) or red (conservative) box depending on what you registered as. You then have a limited amount of room to write a well thought out argument for your side of the issue. The site is constantly being monitored by the either a pannel of unbiased judges or the outside community.

For each comment written in the blue or red box there is a point system. A point is added for each well thought out, well argued point. No point is awarded for something stupid. And points are taken away for something offensive. By the end of the day, the side with the most points for that given article gets (1) overall point for their individual site profile (to which there is a whole slew of other options that I haven't thought of yet. Having more points alows for a better standing within the site, which then creates more options for posting (like a more room to write, rant space, bigger icons, etc.) and eventually prizes. As you keep progressing, the site, or game gets more involved and its a great/fun/frustrating and attention grabbing way to keep up with news. Everyone has an opinion.

I'll post a few lessly developed ones in a little bit.

third idea

3. I get from a lot of people that they don’t want to watch the news because it is always bad things going on. Maybe if we had a user fed news site of people stories or all the good thinks that happen in communities

third idea

3. I get from a lot of people that they don’t want to watch the news because it is always bad things going on. Maybe if we had a user fed news site of people stories or all the good thinks that happen in communities

two ideas

Here are two ideas.

1. I don’t have a specific community. But I was thinking about an interactive map that will all for users to zoom into the country state and city of there choice. Each person could get the new at each level, like the sate level then when zoomed it can give county new and down to city news.

2. A scrolling bar that can be downloaded and scrolls pictures/headlines and can be clicked to get the story that they are interested in.

My Ideas - 2nd Set

1. A resource for online seniors that includes technology news that's specifically catered to them. I read this report on the pewinternet.org site, and it made a lot of sense to me. I think this idea would rely a lot on editors to hand-pick entries from technology websites and blogs, because I'm not sure how to automatically determine what news would serve our audience well there. Also I think this site should include spyware blockers and things like that for people to download, as well.
2. I think that might be a little too specialized to capture an audience, so maybe a wider-ranging site containing news for seniors, people who are retired or nearly so, etc. Given all the issues currently surrounding social security and the like, this might have more of a broad appeal. However older audiences are the last remaining stand-bys for TV news and print news it seems like so I'm not sure how easy it would be to lure them to the Internet for news.
3. A user-maintained map of Wi-Fi areas. As wireless Internet becomes more prevalent I think this would have a market for people who are looking for hot spots but don't know quite where to look. In my experience there are a lot more places with Wi-Fi than you'd expect, so I think a resource like this would help out a lot of people, especially people who are going away and are unfamiliar with the area. This might not be news-y enough for our purposes though--but I would like to maybe incorporate a blog from a person who's completely ditched internet connectivity at home and only uses Wi-Fi. That would be an interesting experiment I think.
4. A map-based resource for skiers and snowboarders. I might be biased here because I'm a skier, but I've seen some websites incorporate locations of ski areas with the areas' conditions reports on Google Maps. Unfortunately most skiers know that ski areas like to fudge the details on their reports, so I'd like to go one step further and also incorporate reports from skiers and snowboarders. There are some websites, like www.snowjournal.com and the Teton Gravity Research website, that have thriving communites of hardcore skiers who are much more honest about conditions. Although again, this idea might not be newsy enough for our purposes, but integration of weather news and industry news would be easy and an obvious extension of the idea, and these things matter a lot to the winter sports community.
5. Here's a report about the Internet and donations after Hurricane Katrina. Coming from this, a resource (maybe a blog) about where people can donate to certain causes and what are reputable and what aren't. Sometimes I see news stories about people getting scammed over the Internet, especially after an event like the hurricanes or the tsunami a few years back, so some kind of way for people to post reputable charities and supposed "charities" to avoid would help people put their money to good use.
   

some interesting ideas from the info aesthetics blog

here's one about news prediction

and here's one mapping buzz about stuff placed on a map, interesting interface

and here's one that shows graphically links between stuff people bought at amazon.com

they could all be used to help a community (geographic or interest) see what's up with other memers of the community

My Ideas - 1st Set

My first five ideas for products & communities:

1. A user-operated live music database. This would allow people to submit setlists and reviews of recent concerts, show upcoming concerts by venue and artist, use Last.fm to provide listening statistics on bands, use Flickr and Youtube so that pictures and video from concerts could be integrated, use Google Maps to provide graphic itineraries on artists' tours, and maybe even host concert recordings by taper-friendly bands. I envision this to be sort of similar to RateYourMusic, except that this would be for live music what RYM is for recorded music. Some fan sites compile information like this to varying degrees (WilcoBase for the band Wilco, At Ease for Radiohead to provide two examples), but for less popular artists, this kind of information is hard to find.
2. A comprehensive website for 2008 presidential candidates. This would be sort of an umbrella layout, first going by party (all of them, not just the two major ones) and then going into each candidate. Every candidate page would have their positions on major issues and what their getting elected could do to effect that issue. It could integrate news stories on the candidates from Digg and/or Deli.cio.us. This idea might be hokey, but I could also see a sort of "candidate search engine" so that people could enter their positions on certain issues and see what candidates they align with. It sounds kind of pathetic that this would be useful, but the media's coverage of the presidential race is more pathetic.
3. A comprehensive resource for people in rural American communities. In my opinion, nearly all media is biased towards urban areas. There are plenty of those small-town papers everywhere, but those usually just talk about middle school science teams and bingo nights. I think people in rural areas, such as farmers, could use a resource that would deliver to them news that matters to them, such as information on energy prices and food prices and FDA regulations. I think this could employ sites like Digg to find relevant stories as well as maybe some kind of RSS feed to deliver information. (I wouldn't worry about these communities being disconnected, most just have older connections, so something that loads quick would be important. For instance, in Vermont, the only consistently broadband connected area in the whole state is the Burlington area--for the most part, everyone else still has dialup, but there are plans to make a statewide broadband WiFi system by 2010.)
4. A forum for people involved in college radio nationwide. This could include a database of college stations around the country, a discussion forum where people at different stations could connect and discuss issues that college stations are dealing with. This site could also include news on music that's popular among college radio and news regarding communications in general (for instance, FCC news).
5. Along those same lines, a way for those involved in college journalism to get together. This could use a discussion forum for student journalists to talk about the issues that affect them, and a way of compiling good stories from different online college publications from all over the country.

Potentially Useful

Hello team, here are some links I've found via StumbleUpon that might be useful.

http://www.web20searchengine.com/web20/web-2.0-list.htm - tons and tons of tools we might use and/or take inspiration from
http://www.yourgmap.com/ - so you can make a customized Google Map without any coding knowledge or anything

okay that's about all.

another niche news site

for info on gas prices - something of interest to everyone

niche video idea

from Seth Godin's blog

interesting idea for a niche product

ok - one more link for the morning

i'm procrastinating from a paper i need to right - ok? (ha ha) and what better way to procrastinate than to surf, read the blogs, read the trades, look thru the online papers. i found this link on a blog called TV Newsday



article about how nbc news is trying to reach high school students - because they realize kids don't watch the tv news for info. nbc figures if it can reach them earlier with something useful, they might become tv news viewers

idea for reaching a specific audience, just like you guys are doing
it has social networking, advertising,

The Story Incubator

Hey Guys,



So I was thinking about what the judges said to us when we were being critiqued for The Wanderer.



I remember one of them asking us "are you selling this to the consumer or to the distributor?"



That got me thinking.



With all this new feedback-ready, user created content type stuff, I think maybe we focus too much on the consumer and expect him to become a creator. Maybe we can somehow help or create something for the creators or distributors that would help them push that content out.



So this idea struck me when I was doing some research for producers at CBS... what about creating a resource for journalists (professional and personal) to help generate story ideas?



I know its like "shouldn't journalists be able to find their own stories?" Well yes. But I'm also sure that many stories go unreported because many stories are never identified as stories.



We could create a system where a person finds a problem in his community, goes home, logs on to a facebook/digg.com database (of course) and posts an idea for a story. At the same time the journalist who is about to do another story on Paris Hilton finds this great story within the community on StoryIdeas.com (or something). Boom, many winners.

I think it would be a useful website for many different parties. thoughts?

since radio came up in the chat last night

an article about a move in radio to "open source"

collaborative media, community oriented, call-in, very popular

Hey guys,

Just thought I'd post this link to a guy that is currently living his real life via second life, and has released a documentary (in second life) about it.

http://www.molotovalva.com/

Also, although I'm having a hard time coming up with new, original ideas for the project, I have considered a lot, and incase other people are stumped I'll let you know some of the things I've considered: 1) the iPhone is going to drastically change the way we view the web over the years to come, so think of the Internet as being mini. I've tried to think in those terms for possibly the structure of our project. 2) a lot of the top 25 Web sites right now are based off of personal pages (whether it's MySpace, Facebook, Photobucket, or blogs), it seems people are putting themselves out there on the Internet

So, I guess what I'm trying to think of is ways to connect these things, and bring in a newsworthy hook to establish some kind of community. Anyway, I just thought I'd mention those two things: where the Internet is going and what the majority of people are doing.

more community examples

good point Matt about the time flying - we really noticed that last summer.

Military families has a lot of good points about it (easily found - they identify themselves as military families instead of us trying to create a sense of community in them, located all over hte country

Age demos - again they are everywhere, but do they see themselves as a community? senior citizens might (but only might) - that would make it harder to figure out what kind of news they wanted/couldn't find elsewhere. age could work - we just gotta work on some more

Here are some urls for community news sites I visit(i'm a news junkie, belong to some niche interest communities) - not suggesting that any of these would work - just giving you some more suggestions of communities since Matt started off our list with some good examples

- anime news (for fans, located everywhere, cant get the news pulled together like this in too many other places) - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/
- professional wrestling news (for fans, located everywhere, may not be many in any one place just like with anime) - http://rajahwwf.com/news/index.php
- tv news industry (for people in the biz, interested in the biz, all over the country, trying to keep up with new developments) - http://www.lostremote.com
- videogame industry news (for people in the biz, fans, marketers) - http://biz.gamedaily.com/
- college/university news about internet stuff affecting colleges from the industry trade journal - http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/

Community

I hope Im posting this stuff right were everyone can see it. I have been trying to think of a community to focus on. I was thinking, Military Families, or maybe a specific age group like 25-40. If anyone else has any ideas it would be great. Time is going to fly on this thing, and I'm really excited to work with this group. I think the wanderer idea was awesome, and I know that we will have somethingeven better to present!

Welcome

Hola senores y senoritas. Here's the blog for Innovation Incubator Team 2. By the time you read this I will have figured out how to invite people.

Cheers

-Tyler