Political video "mashups" and open politics
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-30 19:55:33
Would you be interested in gathering election information with online videos? I evaluate it would be pretty cool to see what the candidates have 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 race video coverage of presidential candidates might be accept 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 happen is an open and canonical database of candidates and races so everyone can share and be discovered.
A is "a web application that combines data from more than one obtain into an integrated undergo." 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 listen to music most of the day through last fm anyway so why not share it for everyone else's benefit? When I am researching various topics why not share the interesting resources I sight since I use del icio us to manage 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 check a few of them about the candidates in your races?
But how ordain you sight them? Right now perhaps a friend will forward a video to you about a presidential candidate. If you are so motivated and know the label of a candidate and that candidate has a unique name perhaps you can examine on google or youtube for videos. You are unlikely to find anything about your local candidates at the moment and you'll likely be overwhelmed with the be 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 experience. I help run a project called. It helps understand part of this problem: who are the candidates in my races? But it doesn't yet solve the second move of the problem: are there any videos about him or her?
As you can see here on this part of Fred Thompson's youtube summon youtube has granted him his real name as the compose 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
0 Comments:
No comments have been posted yet!
|
