Social TV Flickr now hosts video By Liz Foreman on Apr. 9, 2008 - 10:57 AM Flickr has entered the video space! (I’m a much biased Flickr Pro user.) The sexy, Vimeo-esque Flash player is basic but good looking, and I intend to try the service out during my lunch break. Flickr’s blog is quick t ...
Social TV Web video dominates live scandal coverage By Liz Foreman on Mar. 24, 2008 - 8:35 AM Scripps' WXYZ.com in Detroit is live streaming today's coverage of their city's mayoral text-message scandal. The web stream started at 8 a.m. and had more than 10,000 views as of 10:15 a.m., IM'd website manager Seth Myers. Upda ...
Social TV Losing my remote: Jumping from TV to newspapers By Liz Foreman on Feb. 11, 2008 - 8:00 PM Eight months ago, I truly lost my remote, leaving my job as manager of a local TV station website to do multimedia work at a metro newspaper. (Well, I actually left for an awesome job that I had to ultimately turn down due to fami ...
Social TV 85% of the video we consume is pre-recorded By Liz Foreman on Aug. 30, 2007 - 7:17 AM From the department of obvious insights: Vint Cerf, Google smart guy who totally invented the web way more than Al Gore did, claims conventional TV will go away in favor of downloadable content that you view on demand. Not news to ...
Social TV ABC News crew killed By Liz Foreman on May. 18, 2007 - 4:27 AM “Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, were returning home from work at the ABC News Baghdad bureau yesterday afternoon when their car was reportedly ambushed and they were killed by unknown ass ...
Social TV Web a topic in Baltimore union negotiations By Liz Foreman on May. 17, 2007 - 8:17 AM There are other issues on both sides but here are the webby ones… 1) The Baltimore Sun wants the union to okay combined reporter-photographer positions at the paper media organization. 2) The Sun’s union wants, “ ...
Social TV Nothing’s going on at MySpace News (duh) By Liz Foreman on May. 15, 2007 - 10:11 AM TechCrunch reports that MySpace News, which works off of a digg/pligg/Reddit-type model, is not getting much traffic. I agree with TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, how can the news area get traffic if there’s no link ...
Social TV Offshoring journalism: A job list By Liz Foreman on May. 13, 2007 - 12:20 AM Print journalism has embraced offshoring, and there's no doubt broadcasters are going to start coming around to the idea, too. Here's my guess list of broadcast jobs that will be sent overseas. ...
Social TV The extremely last minute media momma’s gift guide By Liz Foreman on May. 12, 2007 - 11:29 PM It's 1 a.m. according to my watch. That means it's officially Mother's Day 2007. If you've waited until now to spend some dough on your media-inclined mother, here are five extremely last-minute gift ideas...
Social TV WSJ launches media/tech vertical site: AllThingsD By Liz Foreman on Apr. 26, 2007 - 7:28 AM WSJ’s wise media pundits Mossberg and Swisher now have their own vertical site, AllThingsD. There are seven staffers, including the cool John Paczkowski. You’ll find blog posts and the ‘Digital Daily Video’ ...