Not sure if any of you will have remembered this. But I asked you a couple of questions at the start of the day. What is a content farm, why exactly are they such a big deal, how big a deal are they and why might they be a worry for Google and for you as would-be journalists?
Lots of questions - I'm going to try to see if anyone has an answer - if not, I might get you to write an answer on your blogs for next week.
Here's something we might look at if there's time - it's a lecture by Chris Anderson, one of the TED founders talking about the way online video, via sites like YouTube, is encouraging innovation. Anderson talks about the way street dance has developed as a result of people sharing ideas and moves via YouTube and builds a more general argument about how this kind of crowd-driven sharing could have a more lasting impact on culture...
TED is, I guess, would be an example of the kind of thing he's talking about - online video used to share ideas... I wonder if there's something revealing here about what works in online video - people talking, often passionately, often with humour as well as intelligence, about ideas, about their research, about things they believe in. Perhaps that is one of the things that works well in online video...
That said, often these people are experts, who might normally have seen their ideas mediated via journalists. If they are now going direct to an interested audience via online video sharing, is that a problem for journalists? What can we add here? Do we have a role?
You've probably all seen this already - but it won't hurt to see it again. It's a good summary of a lot of the things online video journalists say they want to avoid.
Today we're going to look at online video in a bit more detail. We were going to do live blogging but we're going to leave that until next week now. I think we'll look at some different types of online video and then get you to shoot some footage and learn a little bit more about different ways to work with and edit footage when it comes to telling stories on the web.
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