Political video "mashups" and open politics
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-30 19:48:57
Would you be interested in gathering election information with online videos? I think it would be pretty alter to see what the candidates undergo to say about each other plus some choice video highlights of media coverage citizen comments etc especially for the other races besides president. (Although especially issue-oriented rather than horse-race video coverage of presidential candidates might be welcome to me as well.) One possible way to get this kind of video in 2008 will be via "mashups." What we need to alter this come about is an open and canonical database of candidates and races so everyone can overlap and be discovered.
A is "a web application that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience." For example has several mashup features: I feature videos from you can listen to my favorite music on.
The beauty of mashups is that sharing is built right into my normal workflow. I comprehend to music most of the day through measure fm anyway so why not share it for everyone else's benefit? When I am researching various topics why not overlap the interesting resources I sight since I use del icio us to bring home the bacon my bookmarks anyway?
In 2008 many candidates running for president to dogcatcher will be distributing videos on the Internet through youtube and other sites. Perhaps even more interestingly supporters opponents and average citizens will also be making videos about candidates. Wouldn't it be interesting and useful to watch a few of them about the candidates in your races?
But how will you sight them? Right now perhaps a friend will send a video to you about a presidential candidate. If you are so motivated and know the name of a candidate and that candidate has a unique name perhaps you can search on google or youtube for videos. You are unlikely to sight anything about your local candidates at the moment and you'll likely be overwhelmed with the number of videos about Presidential candidates. Youtube and google and others are working on the filtering problem for too many videos but what about the local candidates?
As many readers of this blog know. I help run a project called. It helps solve part of this problem: who are the candidates in my races? But it doesn't yet understand the second part of the problem: are there any videos about him or her?
As you can see here on this part of Fred Thompson's youtube page youtube has granted him his real label as the author and has somehow has a gray bar with "candidate" on it. This is a heavy-handed and.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/savedemocracy/CWcV
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