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The new site (still in beta) is beefed up for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, and it will soon include content from the affiliates through a relationship that’s similiar to the Olympic Zone partnership. NBCSports.com will also have fantasy sports powered by RotoWorld. (Full disclosure: My station, KING-TV, is one of the participating affiliates.)
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WXIA-TV’s 11Alive.com has debuted a beta search application powered by a company called Nexidia that allows users to search for video by audio keywords. So for example, I searched for “John Car” (instead of “John Karr”) and it correctly identified the exact locations in WXIA’s newscasts where the words were spoken by the anchors or reporters. Wow. Search results appear in the form of full newscasts, but when you click to play, the newscast is cued up where the words were mentioned — and corresponding index points appear on the play bar. Very impressive. (Thanks for the tip, John!)
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Oooh, cool. Flickr contributors can now tag their photos by location, which makes some cool map mash-ups. Plenty of applications here for news sites, from text to photos to video.
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ESPNU.com is up and running, and it’s all college sports, all the time. The site consolidates the various ESPN college sports stories under one umbrella. Live college games will be streamed on the site - an interesting new offering.
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Very funny Onion story today:
“Despite claims from the TV news outlet to offer ‘nonstop news’ and ‘coverage you can count on,’ an Onion investigation has uncovered hundreds of instances in which KAMR Channel 4’s 10 O’Clock Eyewitness News team relied almost exclusively on news reports, weather forecasts, and even special-interest features already generated by the station’s 6 O’Clock Eyewitness News team.”
And that’s not all The Union uncovered. (Thanks, Rico for the tip!)
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On the advice of its legal counsel, an in-depth story in today’s old tree version of the New York Times has been held off NYTimes.com. The story maps out the mounting evidence against the suspected terrorists arrested in Britain, and as a result, it may break British law prohibiting “publication of the information that could be deemed prejudicial to defendants charged with a crime.” Appropriately, the Times publicly disclosed why it made the decision, but it raises interesting issues of how online journalism occasionally must take foreign laws into account.
3 comments August 28th, 2006
In its second big scoop, Denver’s KUSA is reporting that the DNA sample taken from John Mark Karr is not a match with the foreign DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey’s body. And charges will not be filed against him in connection with the case. Did Karr dream this up for the media attention? Says Gary Harris, Karr’s family attorney, “He obsesses. He wanted to be a rock star one time. He’s a dreamer. He’s the kind of guy who wants to be famous.” He certainly got his wish. Did the news media go too far in sensationalizing him and/or convicting him? Once again, the JonBenet Ramsey case will spark some serious media soul-searching.
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A Forbes ad claims “more people get their business news from Forbes.com than any other source in the world” using a report from Comscore as proof. But Comscore found some inconsistencies with its own report and revised the numbers downward. And then there’s the little detail that 45 percent of the traffic goes to ForbesAutos.com. But Forbes is still sticking with the assertion, citing internal numbers. Which all goes to prove that it’s easy for anyone to claim they’re number one at something on the web. And sites that are number one have an incredibly difficult job proving it.
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WWL-TV in New Orleans will cover the one-year anniversary of Katrina tomorrow with 18 hours of wall-to-wall coverage, streamed live on WWLtv.com beginning at 4 a.m. ET. (Full disclosure: WWL-TV is owned by Belo, which also owns KING-TV, my employer.)
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The Internet Archive has pulled together a phenomenal resource about Hurricane Katrina. They have gathered 25 million web pages from 1500 websites from September 4 through October 17, 2005. I was a history major and I can’t think of a more valuable way to use the web than what the Internet Archive has done for Hurricane Katrina. For journalists, this provides a model as to how every story, local or national, should be approach on the web. We desperately need to move online storytelling beyond one-dimensional text articles and repurposed local TV news packages, toward three dimensional archives that provide a kaleidoscope of perspectives.
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Google and eBay struck a deal today to allow Google to exclusively display its text ads on eBay sites outside the U.S. The new partnership also calls for the development of a “click to call” service to enable consumers to call merchants directly using connections in Google ads. Yahoo forged a partnership in May with eBay to place its Overture text ads on its auction sites in the U.S.
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In her acceptance speech, Dame Helen Mirren, who won a “Best Actress” award at the Emmys, said she was glad she didn’t fall “ass over tit” on her way up to the podium. That’s an FCC twofer! Compounding the swear, Calista Flockhart repeated it and so did Craig Ferguson. Six swears times $325,000 = $1.95 million in fines, should one person complain to the FCC. Won’t someone please think of the children?
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The nets have a slate of specials to mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The Seattle Times has a rundown of the many programs that will look back at the storm and what has happened in the recovery effort.
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The Emmy Awards show started with a short film featuring Conan O’Brien in a plane crash. The skit was meant to parody “Lost,” but it came on the same weekend as the real plane crash that killed 49 people in Kentucky. The GM for WLEX, the NBC affil in Lexington, says showing the opening sketch was “…somewhere between ignorance and incompetence,” adding he was “horrified” when he watched. Tim Gilbert says he would have not aired the show if he had known about the opening. UPDATE: NBC has apologized for any “unintentional pain” the parody may have caused. “Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday,” NBC said in a statement. “In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy. The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast meant to spoof some of television’s most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused.” VIDEO: The sketch is now posted at YouTube.
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