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Posted in Citizen Journalism, News on January 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Offering solutions to become a Citizen Reporter, or as YouTube would put it, to “Broadcast Yourself”…
Everyone is doing it: the BBC, Sky News, CNN, Reuters….the list doesn’t end.
This last week was Vodafone’s turn. The company plans to offer a new mobile video service that will let their Vodafone Live! subscribers upload and watch contents from each other.
Looking at it from a news point of view (entertainment wise, YouTube is already king), current solutions are not good enough. Where you might have an excellent distribution platform (such as with Yahoo/Reuters), you might as well forget about your attribution or compensation rights. Minimum compensation solutions, such as Vodafone’s are limited to their Live! platform subscribers. Scoop it! news agencies solutions might pay you and attribute your work to you, plus they might be able to distribute your contents pretty well, but they only work with absolutely great shots, leaving most daily coverage to the trash bin…
Much like 2006 was the year of Internet Video, maybe 2007 becomes the year a current or a new Citizen Reporter platform fixes it’s weaknesses and becomes a reference to aspiring Citizen Reporters and video bloggers…and ultimately the next “YouTube success story”.
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