As reported over at Lost Remote, Qik, the video broadcasting site, are very close to launching a nifty application to allow users stream straight from their iPhones.
This video discusses how the application will also make use of GPS to further improve user interaction.
As Lost Remote says, ‘the challenge, of course, is how to organize all these streams into useful and entertaining experiences.’
Beet.tv is carrying this interview with Rachel Sklar, editor of Huffington Post’s Eat the Press column, following a report by Gawker that she is set to leave the site to concentrate on writing a book.
In the clip below Sklar discusses the site’s approach to video and says it’s building ‘hub’ pages for books, sports and world news events.
According to a press release from the Associated Press (AP), the agency will embark on its first continuous, live video news coverage on US election night, November 4.
The Big Issue: Election Results stream will feature a host of AP reports and will be streamed from 7pm (EST) on the agency’s online video network.
The stream will include views from 10 non-journalists, representing the electorate, who have been selected from AP’s collaboration with Yahoo to track the changing attitudes of 2,000 American voters during the presidential campaigns.
“We recognize that this is a once in a quarter century election,” said Michael Oreskes, AP managing editor for US News.
“Through the course of the year we have dug deeply into the dynamics of race and gender and economic fears that are suffusing the electorate. Our pre-election AP-Yahoo! News poll assessing the impact of racial attitudes on the electorate is being cited as the prime source on the issue this year. We plan to carry this work into our preparations for election night.”
YouTube is teaming up with the US’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to broadcast user-generated clips of video from around polling stations on election day.
In the Beet.tv interview below, Steve Grove, head of news and politics at the site, said Video Your Vote will compile the largest video library in history of what takes place in the election on November 4.
The deadline for entry to the 4th International Video Journalism Awards has been extended to December 1, according to a blog post by one of the judges, David Dunkley Gyimah.
Viewers will be able to vote for their favourite films online until January 18 2009.
Unfortunately, the conference that was due to accompany the awards has been cancelled and will no longer take place in Mainz on November 28-9.
Video content from Telegraph.co.uk will now be available through video search engine blinkx, as part of a new partnership announced today.
The publisher will share advertising revenue from ‘contextually relevant’ ads placed next to the clips by blinkx, a release from the company said.
The site already features content from Getty Images and previously agreed content deals with the Guardian and Euronews.
Google’s labs have created a new audio search function, which allows the user to search the audio of video clips on YouTube by keyword, an announcement on the Official Google Blog has said.
GAudi, as the service has been dubbed, will produce a list of search results for a term and the times at which they occurred.
The most useful function: you can skip forward to the point in the clip at which your keyword crops up.
The audio indexing tool builds on Google’s launch of video-to-text transcription for political videos in YouTube’s politicians channel, as part of its US presidential election services.
A new video news website covering the development of natural gas wells in northern Texas will be funded by the Chesapeake Energy Corporation.
The BBC’s technology correspondent describes his experience of using the tools to cover an Apple music event.
As reported in Press Gazette, the NUJ’s General Secretary, Jeremy Dear, used his appearance on Monday at the the TUC Congress Conference 2008 to call for a motion against the erosion of journalists’ civil liberties and media freedom in Britain.
In a follow-up, the NUJ yesterday released this video, ‘Press Freedom: Collateral Damage’ by Jason N Parkinson : nine minutes of film documenting the treatment of journalists by police.
The film highlights a number of incidents in which the NUJ feel the police unnecessarily obstructed reporters and photographers.
The NUJ motion identified the cases of Robin Ackroyd and Shiv Malik, who have both risked jail because of the legal requirement to reveal confidential information from sources. In his speech to the Congress, Dear also referred to Sally Murrer, a journalist who is facing criminal prosecution for receiving information from a police source.
“Journalism is facing grave threats in an age of intolerance,” Jeremy Dear said in the NUJ’s statement. “Whilst on the streets dissent is being criminalized, independent journalism is being increasingly caught in the civil liberties clampdown,” he said.
Members of the TUC conference unanimously backed the NUJ’s motion on Monday. The NUJ statement, with more excerpts from Dear’s speech, can be read here.