Future of distributing 'citizen video'
Mark Glazer says the Media Blogger's Association's Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative, which has already served more than 2 million videos, is "a tantalizing prospect for distributing future citizen video."
Beyond the generous donations from hosting companies, the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative also broke new ground by brokering a deal between washingtonpost.com and bloggers who needed bandwidth. Tom Kennedy, managing editor of multimedia at washingtonpost.com, told me the alliance makes sense for all involved."I think it's important for mainstream media companies to figure out a way to work cooperatively with bloggers, and I think it's in our interests to do that," Kennedy said.
....Unlike the other hosting companies, the washingtonpost.com was more concerned about verifying the authenticity of the videos and making sure the original shooter had given permission for the bloggers to show the video. So far, no amateur video shooters have tried to stop bloggers from showing their video, though many have sold their footage to TV news outlets.
Kennedy notes that there have already been hoax photos of the tsunami that have circulated, what he calls "the cruelest kind of rubbish" in light of the tragedy happening in so many countries.
"The challenge is vetting the authenticity of [the videos], and it's really important to authenticate them as well as find out the full story with enough context so people understand what they're looking at," Kennedy said. "It requires that you go back to the original source of the material. ... It becomes a resource question as to whether you can easily do it. And obviously the blogging community, if they can help us do it, then it makes the collaboration more attractive."
.... "The ideal scenario would be to do some collaborative development that would make the submission of the videos easier and would begin to get the amateurs used to the idea of supplying enough basic metadata and contact information as a part of what they're uploading," washingtonpost.com's Kennedy said. "That all becomes easier for us to source. It's not foolproof, but it would be a good place to start."
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