Lots of heavy things in this....(see my comments below.)
Broadcatching, the Future of Television News and the Death of Chattering Monkeys.
This was actually a piece I had been planning to write for some time and never quite got around to and now it seems that Jon Udell has beaten me to it (Broadcatching: the RSS-ification of television news). Udell is considering the implications of Brett Singer's television news clip playlist (News Video-Daily), which I noted last week: Video Playlists. Lucas Gonze, one of the leaders of the playlist community, also has a couple of comments on the issue: Brett Singer's comment on his collection of news video clips and Jon Udell on Brett's video playlists. In fact, Gonze points out one of the more interesting implications of "broadcatch news": the lack of a need for "chattering monkeys inserting patter between clips."
As Udell notes, television remains a very popular and important medium. It is precisely because of its importance that I think broadcatching is a critical element in democratizing media, something I also noted earlier today on Copyfight (Commercials - Rip, Mix, Post on a Website).
(Continue reading this post at Corante:The Importance of...)
Playlists - Albums - Libraries are micro-content too.
This is why RSS needs to be extended.
Broadcatching is a term invented by Fen LaBalme - early 80's.
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