An interesting look at "What will citizen journalism look like in 2009?" One element:
My News Station. We saw a handcrafted version of this in the Dean campaign. HowardDean.tv used DishTV, cable news, and hacked TiVos to collect news. They also collected video from the field, from students and volunteers, and cut it into a daily TV news program. That will become automatic. News aggregators (Bloglines) and discovery systems (Google News (clusters by topic), Technorati (clusters by reference), Daypop (what's hot)) will group and cut together syndicated videos based on location, time, and subject; create a montage of related footage; and stream a custom video channel just for you.
There are lots of tools coming together that will allow any citizen (who is willing to put in the effort) to produce and distribute professional looking media. There are also a lot of tools coming together to allow interested people to find this media. And once you can produce, distribute, and promote your media, you are on a much more equal footing with big media sources.
Posted by georgegmacdonald at July 17, 2004 09:44 PM