ALJ301

This is a response to the actual video blogs posted with the unit guide for week 10.

Firstly Reuters in the first blog are taking a very mature and informed approach to the field of video blogging, they could never be attacked for a lack effort with regard to reaching the video blog viewers of the world. Vint Cerf has a great point of view as well and while I may not be a convert, he understands the level of which video blogs can reach the world. It’s a good example of how a leading media organization will continue to lead the world and a area of journalism they must have a full grasp of in order to continually do this.

The second video blog posted about the use of mobile phones is a foreign language is a good example to me personally that phones and other forms of technology can overcome various cultural barriers, whether they be language or not, a phone or the internet is the same in any country or culture and with the influx of these they will again make the world smaller and make the ease of reporting in a different country much much easier.

The third video blog or blogger Steve Garfield. The idea of live video streaming with a view to reporting news is brilliant! The only problem I have is when people like Mr Garfield are the ones reporting the news. This is the type of video blog that Reuters should be the world leader in, not Steve as innovative as he a Qik may be! This if anyone has read my previous posts will realize I don’t much care for the everyday Joe or Steve giving me my news, perhaps its an old fashioned approach but I like my news to be delivered by a professional. While I do want news on demand on the net when I want I will have to wait until networks “catch up” and start working in this particular field. This brings me to another point; other countries have system like this in place, why do Australian news networks not have systems where news can be fed live at anytime? Interesting.