Double live, youtube and blogs to boot
June 26th, 2008 | Published in Home
This month I’ve spent most of my days live-streaming a first-degree murder trial to newsobserver.com. On June 9th, producer Rob Roberts live-streamed a Barack Obama speech during the lunch recess for the first ever double live stream on our site.
At the time, much we being said on cable news and blogs about Barack and Michelle Obama’s fist bump or dap. Rob caught a dap on tape between Obama and Gov. Michael Easley as they took the stage.
After the event, Rob cut a quick video and uploaded it to the newsobserver.com. youtube. The video quickly found it’s way onto Politico.
At about the same time, columnist and book critic J. Peder Zane wrote a script for the above video which was picked up by Gawker. They had these words of encouragment for Zane:
Oh, hey, look: A newspaper writer actually made a good, funny internet video! And his name isn’t David Pogue!
Now he is off to more vids. Here’s Zane and Jason Arthur’s latest offering: