Multimedia – let’s give credit where it is due

Yesterday I had a whinge about the BBC not giving credit to backpackdave08 for his video of Noel Gallagher being clattered on stage, which this morning had been seen by over 500,000 viewers.

I got home and read a post by Adam Tinworth who outlined another event when a national news organisation failed to attribute a source.

Been thinking about that overnight and decided to have a look at a couple of other online nationals to see how they handled the Gallagher YouTube video.

The Guardian embedded the video, and even better right from the start which I think makes it look better anyway. But there is no equivalent of a caption here – surely that is the least we could manage for someone who saw an event happening, captured it and shared it. There’s no obvious link to the original either – although if you watch the vid to the end you can do the usual YouTube thing of following the link.

The Telegraph used the BBC method of rip and embed in own player. They did, however, give a link through to the original. But to be honest, it wasn’t until I moused over it that I discovered what it actually was (have a look at the grab and see if you agree). This needs to be more obvious – tell us what the link does!

Again, pretty poor.

The Sun, bless ‘em, did the same – you can tell it’s Dave’s vid because someone says “whoa!” as Noel gets pushed over. It’s been ripped, cut and put in another player.

So, fail – in my view.

Sky News give us a link which says:

The security breach was caught on camera by a fan and has been posted on YouTube.

Does take us through to Dave’s page, but could have been a bit more elegantly done.

I hurled out a question to the Twittersphere about whether news organisations should quote the service or the creator and @bounder made a very good point – and I’ll quote him here:

Creator I would hope – otherwise it’ s like saying we were told about this from an 02 mobile

So come on nationals: if you take someone’s work and use it, then give them a credit, byline or at the very least a nice obvious link back to the original. They add value to your piece and depth to what would otherwise be a static text page.

Or am I not allowed to say that as Dave is a YouTube user and not a journalist? Ok, maybe we should all start thinking about putting Creative Commons licences on our stuff to make sure we get a fair go?

Call it an act of journalism or an act of sharing he’s done the deed, so surely he needs to get a bit of credit for it?

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September 9, 2008 | Filed Under video | Comments 

BBC attribute Gallagher smackdown clip to service, not user

BBC News Online’s piece about Noel Gallagher being pushed over during a gig in Canada raises an interesting point about online video.

The video, which the Beeb clearly says is from YouTube, uses the BBC’s own formatted player to display the section they wanted to illustrate the text. The attribution line doesn’t even link through to the original video.

Basically it looks as if they have ripped it, chopped the bit they want and then reposted it to their own site (have a look at a screengrab).

What they haven’t done is attributed it to BackpackDave08 who actually shot the footage.

Interesting that they see the source as YouTube and not the YouTube user. Would have been nice for them to link through to the original video too – I think it works better as there is a longer build-up and you can see the band in colour (Noel innocently tuning up), before the lights go down and the guy pounces.

So here, for the sake of completeness is the orginal vid by BackpackDave08

Follow-up post looking at how The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sun and Sky News attributed this

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September 8, 2008 | Filed Under Journalism, video | Comments 

Web 2.0 and the lifecycle of a news story

Spot of essential reading from Alison Gow for anyone interested in journalism, education or journalism education.

Alison, who blogs over at Headlines and Deadlines, has taken a look at the cycle from gathering to publication and follow-up and comparing web 1.0 to web 2.0.

I had no idea when I started doing this how thin the ‘old’ opportunities for investigating stories would look compared to the tools at our disposal now; it’s quite stark really. It drives home just how important mastering these tools is for journalists as our industry continues to develop and change.

Headlines and Deadlines

This is a quote you will see all over the place (Paul Bradshaw switched me on to this via his Twitter stream and he used this quote in his blog post) – because it is very astute. The Web 2.0 services Alison talks about are important tools that are vital to all sorts of people – you’ll see the same things being talked about in edupunk, eduwomble, PLE, loosely-coupled teaching.

Alison’s point is major – things have changed in a major way and educators need to understand we are getting the point. I’m in the middle of putting together resources on Web 2.0 for my students, so this has been a great little fillip for me.

If you don’t get why WEb 2.0 is such a big deal here’s a a video by Digital Ethnographer Dr. Michael Wesch.

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September 2, 2008 | Filed Under Journalism, Social media, elearning, mi online gurus, social learning, video, web 2.0 | Comments 

Cool ways of thinking – graffiti in reverse

Saw this vid the other day – very interesting take on doing things in a different way.

http://reversegraffitiproject.com/

June 29, 2008 | Filed Under The flip side, video | Comments 

Streaming from mobile phones

Very quick post at the moment – been playing with streaming video from the N95. There are a number of services I’ve subscribed to including flixwagon, bambuser and qik

Thought I’d see what other people are thinking, there are pros and cons to each which I’ll look at later, so went to Trendpedia to see what was being said in the blog-o-sphere.

Here’s their graphical interpretation about which one is getting the most coverage from bloggers and web types.

Trednpaedia graph

Haven’t really used any of them enough to make my mind up yet – and don’t go looking for any vids there, embarrassed myself and deleted them.

But to be fair 66 people viewed my feeble Qik attempt at showing the web my untidy office and my favourite guitar (a Fenix telecaster copy with a nice thin neck, green burst if you are interested) and some kind soul from NYC even sent me a little greeting while I was working.

Have viewed some Bambuser streams belonging to Alison Gow, who blogs over at Headlines and Deadlines, and Joanna Geary and they were pretty cool (and worked!).

The comment facility was great with Joanna, even if I did end up making a stupid comment while she was supposed to be learning about the internet and modern journalism. (Memo to self, Twitter makes someone familiar – but remember you’ve not met them yet!)

Be interested to hear what anyone else is using and why – give me a shout, I’d be intriuged.

May 2, 2008 | Filed Under Mobile journalism, video | Comments 

Cool new toy

I’ve been signing up for loads of web 2.0 apps and services again, will list them later.  I’m going to log what I’ve got and then look at what I’m using on a montly basis.

But one fun one I’ve been testing is qik (prounced quick as you’d expect in a web 2.0-styley, it’s a site and app that lets you stream live video from a smartphone – I’m playing with the N95 at the moment.

Had a fun one tonight, been trying to get a couple of friends to comment on it because (drum roll please) you can see their comments on the phone while it is streaming.

I’m afraid I’ve deleted the first couple as I look like a complete bufoon – need some in front of camera training to get this right (very painfully self-concious so ideas about using this kind of thing for broadcast might take some work).

As you’ve guessed I’m egrommet there – but as of 21.50 on March 5 there’s nothing there. Stay tuned for an embarrassed looking Gromm yacking total nonsense at you.

March 5, 2008 | Filed Under mobile learning, smart phone, video, web 2.0 | Comments 

Social Media Influence: Custom does "MoJo” with Nokia and Cardiff University

Social Media Influence: Custom does “MoJo” with Nokia and Cardiff University

An interesting experiment between Matt Yeomans – from Custom Communications – Cardiff University’s School of Journalism and Nokia Trendlabs.

Mobile journalism is the coming thing, lots of editors I’ve talked to lately are really interested in this approach.

Personally I also find it interesting that Matt has been using a Ning social network as the host to his course, eschewing the regular VLE that Cardiff uses.

It’s had its ups and downs, but has been interesting in that it is easy for the students to work together and view each other’s work.

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February 21, 2008 | Filed Under Mobile journalism, Ning, communities, video | Comments 

Reflective practice

Getting interested in reflective practice and how that can work – the obvious answer is to blog or to keep a journal inside a VLE.

But why not bring PLE elements in to play here.

I’ve signed up to Twitter to have a little play and see what that can do, so you’ll be seeing little messages popping up in the right hand column from time to time.

I’ve also uploaded Shozu to an N95 to try some video reflection via blip.tv .

Stay tuned – and I apologise for the early video posts. I did get into newspaper journalism for a reason ;-)

February 19, 2008 | Filed Under blog, social learning, video | Comments 

60 seconds of pure terror

Paul Bradshaw has unveiled what he believes to be the worst example of newspaper video – Reading Evening Post’s 60 second news.

It’s well worth a look at what is going on here, the poor reporter has obviously just been stuck in front of a video camera and told to read off the autocue – he looks like a bunny in the headlights.

Both Paul (UCE) and Andy Dickinson, from UCLAN, have been highlighting the problems associated with the big companies just jumping on to the bandwagon.

Andy has done a couple of very funny cartoons on this – well worth a look.

It’s a salutory lesson for any ‘print’ journalist looking to get ahead in an increasingly online world.

(This is a repost, lost the one last night due to a technical problem – sorry folks!)

February 19, 2008 | Filed Under Journalism, video | Comments 

links for 2007-12-20

December 20, 2007 | Filed Under Mobile journalism, video | Comments