Metastar :: Reuters TV

This will be a benchmark for the future. There's no reason why pseudo on-demand, streaming video can't be built into all webapps and services - in the future.

So excited about Reuters TV RSS!.

I must break from my research paper-writing to gush with excitement over Reuters' video RSS feed. As Dave Winer points out, it could be better by using bitorrent, etc. Still, I love it. I use Sharpreader as my main aggregator these days because I like the way it notifies me with a little newsflash pop-up when feeds are updated. Now I get my Reuters video that way.

It's already having an impact on how I follow news events. Take the Rumsfeld testimony. I've banned myself from TV in order to get some work done, which means I didn't watch Rumsfeld testify live. But I got to watch a long video clip of his testimony later on the Reuters video site, at my own convenience during a writing break, without having to listen to annoying anchors and pundits yammering on before and after showing the video clip. Plus the clip was much longer than I would ever have gotten in a network or cable TV news replay.

I got even more excited just now when my Sharpreader notified me of the Reuters TV headline: "Congolese Soldiers, Hutus Clash". Clicking on the link, I got to watch a raw Reuters feed of video and soundbites from the aftermath of the latest violent mess in Congo without some reporter's narration, accompanied by a text story that explains what I am seeing. Somehow I doubt this story is going to be on the network or cable TV news shows this evening, or if it is, it will be a brief 30-second anchor-read. Being a very visually-oriented person, I found that the video compelled me to read and learn more than I might otherwise have done about how the Interahamwe - a militia group that orchestrated the 1994 Rwandan genocide - continues to operate and terrorize people in Congo.

I also find it valuable to be able to watch the latest raw video from Iraq, as opposed to the highly packaged and narrated version we get on TV. All this from a person who has worked in TV news for over a decade.

[unmediated] [Marc's Voice]

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