breaking pictures and videos uploaded here!

Hey guys!

Here's a website my reporter friend uses for her video blogs...basically you can upload videos, pics for slideshows, and even a combination of both...by dragging and droppping....then click on produce!

Then we can embedd the HTML code on our website...looks like this could be a fast and easy way to add breaking multi-media news coverage to our site! You can also upload stuff directly from webcams and cellphones too.

Check it out.

http://www.kyte.tv/mobile/index.html

Some challenges with UGC we should consider in our plan

In case you havn't read this already on J-source

http://jsource.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=3300&utm_campaign=Now%20on%20J-Source%3A%20Building%20community%20online%3B%20leaks%2C%20lies%20and%20lessons%20from%20the%20Arar%20case%3B%20news%20site%20set%20for%20Spring%20launch&utm_content=riva.finkelstein@ryerson.ca&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=Link%20to%20article

Funding contest

Maybe we should be doing this:
New Voices 2009

Too bad the deadline for proposals is Feb. 12. I doubt we could get something together in time for that.

What another J-School class did

NewsMixer. Interesting idea. Attractive execution. I'd love to hear more about the process they went through to create it.

Check it out.

More on the future of newspapers

J-Source has good links to discussion of possible business models to save newspapers today. I vote that we nationalize ours and run them as break-even non-profits.

'A digital meeting place for the exchange of ideas'

"The Mark is Canada’s daily online forum for news and opinion. Every day it publishes 10-20 two-sentence briefs of the day’s most important news stories and associates related multimedia content to each summary: commentary and analysis written by subject matter experts; audio conversations and interviews with and between experts; video footage from conferences, speaker events and book launches; documentary films; links to other websites and more. Independent of the day’s news, The Mark will also feature the ideas of 5-10 thought-leaders through written, audio and video pieces. The Mark is a digital meeting place for the exchange of ideas."


http://j-source.ca/english_new/detail.php?id=3293
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The Super Bowl Tweet Aggregator

"Planning on tweeting your random thoughts during the Super Bowl? So are we! For this special occasion, AgencySpy, Adrants, AdFreak and AdLand have agreed to use the hashtag #sbads09. Use this tag, and your tweets will pop up on AgencySpy — we're using some fancy-schmancy technology to get your updates on the site.

The conversation will appear on the main page, much like a live blog. We'll be following the ads (and the game) from our Super Bowl HQ here in Manhattan, so feel free to join us. We apologize in advance for being such dorks"

http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/about/the_super_bowl_tweet_aggregator_107340.asp
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