Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Mobroadcasting breaking news
The potential for digital cameras to capture breaking news is in itself old news. News programmes have been using stills and footage sent in by viewers who happened to be in the right place at the right time for ages.
But I saw for the first time this morning an example of the ultimate in moblogging: Mobroadcasting. BBC South’s news bulletins have this morning been illustrating a breaking news story with a still photo taken by a cameraphone, and have explicitly stated it as such.
The photo, of the plume of smoke caused by a serious fire that had just broken out, was easily as good as the stills you’d get from a ‘proper’ camera - testament to the quality of cameraphones now. Strangely, although the photo made it on to tv, it isn’t yet on the relevant BBCi page.
I wonder how long it will be before we have open collaborative mobroadcasting on our screens.
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July 27th, 2004 at 3:23 pm
It seems as though it would be a great way for a television station to breed loyalty as well, to enlist all their viewers as amateur reporters, asking them all to enter a special blogging interface number in their speed dial, etc.
July 27th, 2004 at 5:37 pm
BBC websites have used photos from phones several times this summer, mainly from arts festivals.
The system was put together by their Radio and Music Interactive group’s architecture team, and can be read about here: http://reprocessed.org/blog/archives/2004/07/15/bbc_mms.html
July 27th, 2004 at 8:47 pm
It’s logical for websites, yes, but this is the first time I’ve seen a cameraphone photo used on the TV. Would love to know if it’s happened before!
July 27th, 2004 at 10:17 pm
Reminds me of this .
July 27th, 2004 at 10:17 pm
This, even…. http://weblog.garyturner.net/archives/000546.html
July 28th, 2004 at 9:21 pm
I have no doubt this will be a rapidly emerging trend globaly as the lines between media and consumers continue to blur. But at what point does transparency become invasion of privacy?
Allan