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2004-09-22 
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Posted by Fred 2004-09-22 3:11:41 PM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Will there be an editorial board? he asked in a concerned voice.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-22 3:42:35 PM||   2004-09-22 3:42:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, the comment thing annoyed me, I wished there was a way to turn it off.

Someone want to link to "the php page"?
Posted by gromky 2004-09-22 4:28:30 PM||   2004-09-22 4:28:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 You da man Fred (& co.)! and I mean that in a non-sexist, all-inclusive sort of way;)
Posted by Spot  2004-09-22 4:51:31 PM||   2004-09-22 4:51:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 [borrowed from another thread]

Q: What would be required for your average Rantburger or blogger to create, via streaming video, alternative newscasts and live interviews? In other words, create our own realtime, 24/7 rival to Russert, "60 minutes" etc?

Bandwidth, investment needed-- anyone know?
Posted by lex 2004-09-22 4:54:30 PM||   2004-09-22 4:54:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, I'm serious about this. Anyone with comments/thoughts/queries please email tom_p_mclaughlin@yahoo.com
Posted by lex 2004-09-22 4:55:18 PM||   2004-09-22 4:55:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey Fred:

Check your email. Not meaning to clutter your day but maybe you should be seeing the attachment.
Posted by badanov  2004-09-22 7:18:19 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif]  2004-09-22 7:18:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Disregard.

Sheesh, amazing what spammers can do. The email header points to Korea, and the mailer was cough**OutLook**cough, so I guess that explains a lot.
Posted by badanov  2004-09-22 7:35:42 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif]  2004-09-22 7:35:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 
Q: What would be required for your average Rantburger or blogger to create, via streaming video, alternative newscasts and live interviews? In other words, create our own realtime, 24/7 rival to Russert, "60 minutes" etc?

Bandwidth, investment needed-- anyone know?


Basics:

video camera, editing software, basic audio equipment

The camera doesn't need to be great, since you're looking at streaming, but it needs to be reliable. A good miniDV camera goes for around $600. Figure two in case one breaks: $1200.

Editing software: Best value for functionality out there is, IMHO, Vegas. About $800, though you can get it for $600 on the street. Their stripped-down Vegas Movie Studio might work, and it's $100.

Basic audio equipment: If you're interviewing, you want to get the questions and answers the first time, and you want it CLEAN. You can get a good audio card for, I think, around $200. Microphones are a different matter. Good wired lapel mics start at $300; for streaming you might get away with a cheaper mic, or with using a boundary mic for both sides, but sound is generally more important than pics.

For streaming interviews you really need a solid color backdrop and good lighting. A basic 3-point lighting kit can be had for about $100; a cheap chromakey backdrop goes for around $100. You wouldn't really key out the background, but a solid color makes the subject stand out better and compresses better.

Bandwidth? Dunno. $$$$$ I'd imagine. Lots of $$$$$. Video, even compressed for streaming, takes up a lot of disk space, and lots of bandwidth. Both of those things take $$$$$ to host.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-22 7:52:47 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-22 7:52:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yay! Thanks! I've been secretly wanting this feature for a while, and here it is. It's no wonder why Rantburg is my favorite site on the web!
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2004-09-22 8:30:50 PM||   2004-09-22 8:30:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Fred - you are a saint. And a god.

(And your fellow editors are godlets, of course. :-p)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-09-22 8:35:25 PM||   2004-09-22 8:35:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 lex - Check out the vlogs links (video-blogging) on Jarvis' BuzzMachine...

Mebbe we hire Ugly George in NY to work for Fred...
Posted by .com 2004-09-22 9:02:45 PM||   2004-09-22 9:02:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Lex: I had suggested earlier, in another thread a while ago (but please don't ask me to find it, searching comments is difficult here), that the editors at Rantburg do a once-or-twice a month radio show about recent events in the WoT.

The more I think about this, the more sense it makes; it would be much easier to actually get voice reports from American military and Iraqi bloggers in Iraq, for example.

Streaming audio by itself ought to be easier to handle than streaming video, too.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-09-22 9:32:03 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2004-09-22 9:32:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Robert, Phil - thanks for the insights. The key, I think, is to move beyond the blog format and create a parallel or alternate linked media that sifts and edits, as the legacy media do, but with far greater reach, 24/7 coverage and without the ridiculous pomposity and pretentiousness.
Posted by lex 2004-09-22 11:23:41 PM||   2004-09-22 11:23:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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