C-SPAN Launch New Video Site
C-SPAN goes YouTube. Well, not quite. C-SPAN has bought into the user-generated video concept and plan to launch its own version of YouTube next month. Their site will be called Viewfinder.Last year C-SPAN ordered YouTube to pull copyrighted, user-posted material from its site now they want to be like YouTube.
Viewfinder will be incorporated into C-SPAN’s current programming. Along with the call-in and email-in portion of their shows, users will now be able to video-in campaign and political content. Users will be asked to submit a 2-minute or shorter video to a “Question of the Week” question.
C-SPAN is not alone in this latest trend of old media trying to incorporate new media into their operations. CNN launched Exchange, its user-generated version, in July. CNN ask users to send in street-level, action report videos and also not so compelling video, like how you plan to handle your holiday travel plans.
The good thing for new media students is someone has to go through and view the submitted videos then decide which ones to publish.
No one knows how interested anyone will be in a video of your holiday travel plans, or if the political pundits will embrace the video submitted idea, but if this becomes a model for old media to get into new media there will be another job title to consider as a career option: Online Video Editor.
--Wanda Jenifer
posted by Mark H. @ 11/14/2006 01:57:00 PM
1 Comments:
Also did you see this link in the AU daily email today?
Looks like C-Span on meth. I'm not sure how the two are entirely different. I didn't realize there was more than one organization taping on the Hill.
Max
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