hello peeps,
I found this video where Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing a mock up skit of the Sarah Palin Saturday Night Live Interview with Katie Couric earlier this week.
This skit surprisingly similar to the original interview and heaps more hilarious.
Click here to view the full video
My first taste of what a ‘MoJo” is when I was back in Sri Lanka; a high-school student; in a capital city, where it seemed like very six months there is an explosion targeting to assassinate politicians.
Before the camera crew could get their films rolling to get the first footage of the location, the breaking news were delivered by a reporter onsite through his mobile phone.
Now that kind of reporting in anyone’s book are primitive stages of mobile journalism.
The whole point of mobile journalism is that the reporting is of ongoing news transmission as it happens and when it happens without having to wait for the news production team to sum it up and edit before they broadcast the news an hour later.
MoJo’s are now vital in the ‘breaking news’ process and the mobile phone has moved on from being just the voice-over equipment into video transmission device that allows the journalist to start rolling, report and edit before connect to the internet and instantaneously to upload or send their news report through.
A MoJo is required to be able to multi-task and be a multi-talented, techno savvy reporter.
The recent developments of growing numbers of Mojo’s could also mean more job cuts of the more traditional reporters who are not stepping up to the technological pace.
I speculate sometimes perhaps just like many others whether vlogs are really the video version of blogging or is it simply Online TV.
It shares the characteristics of a blog showcasing daily updates, RSS feed, comments of viewers etc. The vlog sites can also be compared into online television that provides individual with channels to broadcast their video content.
It may not consist of the professional finishing touches of television network productions. Nevertheless it does contain equal importance in its user generated contents.
YouTube is a perfect general example of social networking site that provides its users with individual channels to upload post and share their video productions.
The issue is however, that the world is yet to absorb the gravity of the power of vlog content.
When potentially threatening information in a video is uploaded online the authorities tend to dismiss the threat it may impose for the future. In example of the Finnish gunman who went on mass shooting in a school; the video he posted on YouTube of his killing intentions were taken too lightly by the police.
This obviously proved to be fatal just the same way the other mass shooting incidents were early this year.
Regardless of criticisms on sustainability in sharing information on vlogs by many, I believe it certainly is the way forward for User Generated Content as it provides the visual, audio and text segments in delivering the message.
On a more lighter note here is a video hosted by Deepak Ananthapadmanabha on latest (rather weird) technology. (Hilarious!!!) It’s a regularly updated vlog by MOJO’S The Circuit hosted in MOJO HD website.
If you cannot view the following video click here.
STOMP! No, it’s not another track by a Hip-Hop Mogul, but is the Singaporean website that represents Straits Times Online Mobile and Print.
STOMP encourages the regular citizen in becoming one with the now media process. Although unlike OhmyNews (mentioned in my previous blog), at STOMP they use a different model of citizen journalism.
Instead of the individual reporting in delivering the story directly, it is being mediated by the journalists at Strait Times in writing up the story based on their information.
However I did manage to stumble upon a blog post that argues this method use by STOMP is not citizen journalism by Cherian George blogging about Singaporean new media, politics and the law.
The argument is that in STOMP the decision of which stories should go up on the website is decided by the editors instead of vice versa as it should be in citizen journalism.
Perhaps due to censorship laws prevailing in the media in Singapore STOMP might not be as broad minded as OhmyNews would be.
Nevertheless it sure is stomping its way through into the world of media convergences in an era in which Mr. Nick Davies feels threatened by excessive PR campaigning.
However interesting or informative a blog maybe, its readers will always be pleased to see some visual content that help them see the big picture.
Usage of photographs in free flowing slide presentation would aid the creator of the blog to build his/her story as he tells the story.
Mr. Robert Niles of this week’s reading has chosen slide as his winner out of the most popular photo slide tools because of the versatility it has to offer. Compared to other slideshow tools i.e Picasa, BubbleShare etc. available online slide has more features such as sound embedding and captioning.
I had primarily used slide in December 2006 to create a slide presentation of my most memorable pictures in my hi5 profile (to visit my hi5 profile click here).
I have embedded a slieshow of some pictures off my family albums to prove how versatile my choice of slide presentation tools is.
We are most certainly way past the era where we waited till every Sunday morning to pick up our Sunday broadsheet for that week’s scoop in the news.
The latest news is more of a click, stream and a RSS feed away as I munch on an apple while having morning tea (a weird habit of mine).
Ironically this week I watched the first episode of new Beverly Hills 90210 to find out how quickly news (mainly gossip) gets around within the high school through a blog including vlogs run by a fellow student, silver.
This technology savvy global village is becoming more and more dependent on these tools used by media corporations, gossip mongers (i.e Perez Hilton) and citizen journalists to keep them in a newsworthy need to know arena at a click of a button away.
This is where the use of technology by anyone who has got a camera to produce information could violate and disrupt our right to privacy in our lives according to Mr. Kevin Sites.
What do you get when you combine an 89% broadband penetration, in one of the oldest continuing civilizations with one of the fastest growing economies in the world? The answer is simply OhmyNews.com that encourages citizen journalism.
This South Korean website spearheaded by its CEO, Mr.Oh Yeon Ho had proven to be very successful in gaining its readers affection locally by uploading at least 200 articles a day.
Further they have over 3,000 citizen reporters around the world that keeps help updating the news as it happens.
This project that persuades every citizen to be a journalist also follows a strict set of guidelines and a code of ethics in order to maintain credibility and privacy requirements in every article submitted.
As for the citizen reporters, writing for OhmyNews is perhaps the case of five minute fame, the generous tips from the readers or the simple satisfaction of sharing information with the rest of the world.
This turn of reporting not only allow the truth seeking Gen Y population with an alternative news media, but also allows the reporter to be a bit opinionated in their article more than conservative reporting would allow them to.
