Archive for February 11th, 2008
CNN’s successful user generated content effort is being launched on its own site this week as ireport.com is set to go live. MediaWeek got a sneak preview of the new site. According to the story, the site will be similar to YouTube, with all content being published without an editorial validation of the submissions. “The community will decide what the news is,” said Susan Grant, executive vp of CNN News Services. “We are not going to discourage or encourage anything…iReport will be completely unvetted.”
February 11th, 2008
Eight months ago, I truly lost my remote, leaving my job as manager of a local TV station website to do multimedia work at a metro newspaper. (Well, I actually left for an awesome job that I had to ultimately turn down due to family issues.) Anyway, I’ve gotten questions from TV lifers who are wondering what it’s like to work at a paper, so here goes…
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When NBCU & Fox announced Hulu would allow embedded players… I thought “gee, I should start a site with all the videos embedded and surround it with Google ads.” And I didn’t follow through. Shocker. But anyway — someone had the same (admittedly obvious) idea - and launched OpenHulu. All the same content, no sign-in needed.
Hulu reps told TVWeek that the open clone is basically cool with them.
February 11th, 2008
Last night’s episode of The Simpsons featured Marge starting a successful chain of gyms targeted at women. Hilarity ensued.
The FOX-sitcom took another poke at its corporate owner:
February 11th, 2008
That’s Jeff Jarvis’ conclusion after participating in Reuters’ mojo project, which involves recording and feeding video from Nokia N82 phones. By using Qik.com (as we’ve blogged about before), you can even go live. “A wired journalist without a camera and connectivity is like a hack without a pencil,” Javis writes.
February 11th, 2008
