Someone from BlogTV commented on my post about vlogger Shelly Palmer, agreeing that he should cite his sources within his vlog, not just on his show notes. Then they went a step further, recommending a vlogger on their own site. (See video above)
"I agree, his news sources should be cited. Another great news vlogger is Steven Binko: http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/5878."
This came off to me as comment spam and made me wonder if this vlogger knew that BlogTV was recommending him. Or, is BlogTV being paid by this blogger to spread comment spam, like a PayPerPost for blog comments kind of thing?
My post BlogTV commented on was not about vloggers in general, but the topic of citing one's sources within the vlog episode itself.
And back to that topic...
I am noticing that podcasters, blogger and vloggers are taking content, citing sources, then profiting from the information those sources provided. Is this right?
Take the podcast Buzz Out Loud by CNET, for instance. They report on stories found both on their website and others. And they charge Earthlink (who is going broke trying to wireless-ize the nation) money to advertise on their show. So when they report on a stiry from the NYTimes, does the NYTimes get a cut of that Earthlink money? I've also noticed that CNET regularly posts direct links to articles from the NYTimes and other sources. They are giving credit in both these cases, but is it right for CNET (I am only using them as one example. There are many.), which creates news itself, to then go a step further and feature other organizations' news articles as it's own content? Because that's essentially what they are doing.
This is an open-ended debate. I haven't made up my mind as to how I feel, FYI.
I came across the blog service Readspeaker on David Weinberger's blog and have to talk about it. I had this idea myself when I was working at Mindcomet. It creates a podcast feed from the text on a blog using tect-to-speech.
Love this.
My idea was for newspapers. Now that I know more about rss, I'd revise my original idea and post it as such:
On the New York Times podcast page, there could be podcast feeds for each section of the printed newspaper. (My original idea went with the notion that people went to nytimes.com and clicked around, so the buttons labeled "mp3" would be located beside each headline. This auto-generation would prevent The New York Times from spending a dime on paying people to podcast their stories if they ever wanted to do that.
I wish they did.
For example, I listen to cnet.com's podcast "Buzz Out Loud." I do not visit the site regularly. Why? I like to listen to my news, not read it. If cnet had their news rss available as podcasts, I'd listen. Therefor, I'd be "reading" the content on their site without having to go through the trouble (and time) of reading. And cnet.com could put advertising on these podcasts automatically using one of those services that does that stuff.
Is Youtube falling apart? --Joost is the new youtube. Viacom, owner of Comedy Central, MTV and others, could not reach an agreement with Youtube, pulled 100,000 videos off the site and struck a deal with Joost.com, the video site (now in beta) created by the guys who made Skype. Joost will host all of Viacom's online video content. Joost will only feature content created by it's partners. We, the lowly masses, cannot upload to Joost. But we can watch tv shows there for free. (Source)
--"A deal between Google and CBS to let YouTube users watch clips from shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman has unraveled, according to published reports." (Source)
--I heard on Buzz Out Loud that Youtube will only allow content providers who are business partners with the company access to it's filtering software. This is called blackmail.
Steve Jobs' latest teacher rant I've heard on several podcasts that Steve Jobs thinks teachers should not have tenure because it prevents the bad ones from being fired. Just because you have tenure means that if you are a bad teacher, you can't be fired? Is this true?
Singing News Anchor "Yahoo is hoping a quirky take on the news will strike a chord as its next original programing effort. The Web giant confirmed Wednesday that it will launch a video project before the end of this quarter that will feature a journalist-cum-crooner who will sing the news." (Source)
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