Flickr now hosts video

Flickr has entered the video space! (I’m a much biased Flickr Pro user.) The sexy, Vimeo-esque Flash player is basic but good looking, and I intend to try the service out during my lunch break. Flickr’s blog is quick to point out that this isn’t YouTube. For example, uploads are limited to 150MB, about 90 [...]

Web video dominates live scandal coverage

Scripps’ WXYZ.com in Detroit is live streaming today’s coverage of their city’s mayoral text-message scandal. The web stream started at 8 a.m. and had more than 10,000 views as of 10:15 a.m., IM’d website manager Seth Myers.

Update: As of noon, WXYZ.com has served 85,000 live video streams!

Losing my remote: Jumping from TV to newspapers

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…

85% of the video we consume is pre-recorded

From the department of obvious insights: Vint Cerf, Google smart guy who totally invented the web way more than Al Gore did, claims conventional TV will go away in favor of downloadable content that you view on demand. Not news to the LR faithful. But, this stat from Cerf’s speech is really cool: “85% of [...]

ABC News crew killed

“Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, were returning home from work at the ABC News Baghdad bureau yesterday afternoon when their car was reportedly ambushed and they were killed by unknown assailants,” according to ABCNews.com. This brings the total to 176 journalists and media assistants killed in Iraq since March [...]

Web a topic in Baltimore union negotiations

There are other issues on both sides but here are the webby ones… 1) The Baltimore Sun wants the union to okay combined reporter-photographer positions at the paper media organization. 2) The Sun’s union wants, “to combine operations of baltimoresun.com, whose employees are not Guild members, into The Sun’s unionized newsroom,” said a guild spokesman.

Nothing’s going on at MySpace News (duh)

TechCrunch reports that MySpace News, which works off of a digg/pligg/Reddit-type model, is not getting much traffic. I agree with TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, how can the news area get traffic if there’s no link to it anywhere on MySpace? While some people diss MySpace users as kids who don’t care about news, this isn’t the [...]

Offshoring journalism: A job list

Print journalism has embraced offshoring, and there’s no doubt broadcasters are going to start coming around to the idea, too. Here’s my guess list of broadcast jobs that will be sent overseas.

The extremely last minute media momma’s gift guide

It’s 1 a.m. according to my watch. That means it’s officially Mother’s Day 2007. If you’ve waited until now to spend some dough on your media-inclined mother, here are five extremely last-minute gift ideas…

WSJ launches media/tech vertical site: AllThingsD

WSJ’s wise media pundits Mossberg and Swisher now have their own vertical site, AllThingsD. There are seven staffers, including the cool John Paczkowski. You’ll find blog posts and the ‘Digital Daily Video’ feature and, in the making money realm, there are video prerolls and one banner ad position per page. And, relating to the “To [...]

Scripps TV sites launch on IDM, Dayport platforms

The Scripps TV sites (with the exception of my own site, WCPO.com, which will launch very soon) have relaunched on the Inergize Digital Media CMS and the Dayport video platform. The stations have a common look with horizontal navigation and a video player on the main page. Great job, everyone! Screen grab of newly-launched ABC15.com [...]

Clearly ashamed of their website

Are you jealous, too? I still meet people whose station business cards don’t have their web addresses and KUSA has a big, honkin’ web sign.

Who’s your Adrian Holovaty?

Back when most people thought text, video, a message board, photo gallery, related links and a poll comprised a darn good web news story, Adrian went way beyond, showing us how to make massive amounts of data interactive. Now, it looks like more companies are on board, hiring their own versions of Adrian. Cory adds: [...]