Veteran blogger Dave Winer has turned his attention to the tv news of the future.
I love thinking about the future, not least because growing up in the 1970s I thought we’d all be eating our food in capsule form and wearing strange halter-necked outfits.
Dave could actually get what he wants by TIVOing the news, or watching it with a laptop to hand.
In the UK we’ve had red-button interactivity available for news for quite a while, enabling people on satellite to deconstruct running orders. The response has been utterly underwhelming.
In the meantime, things that might help juice up TV news are:
- better social bookmarking opportunities to share stuff online
- more sophisticated metadata with video
- deconstructed packaging, ie standalone graphics
- better online text support
4 responses to “TV news "of the future"”
>> growing up in the 1970s I thought we’d all be eating our food in capsule form and wearing strange halter-necked outfits.
Whereas growing up in London in the 80s, I just assumed the future was going to be a radioactive wasteland after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had a proxy nuclear war in Western Europe…
Most red button services are as slow as teletext. If they speed up we will use them more (it happened to the internet.) But broadband to the TV will become widespread soon and that could bring reality to most of your suggestions, (then the red button can safely be left to disappear.)
Do people want TV news on their command? Many do, but many can’t be bothered. As it becomes easier to access, it also becomes easier to avoid. So please, let’s hang on to the well produced, scheduled news programs in prime slots.
At the Tyndall Report we have gone part of the way using original content from the broadcast networks’ weekday nightly newscasts. We present rundowns each day of the unbundled stories the networks chose to present. For customization, users can go to Tyndall Search and create a URL including any story title, topic theme or word string. Save that URL and whenever you refresh it will automatically add any new videothat falls into your chosen search category.
Cheers
Andrew Tyndall
Thanks Andrew – I’m a subscriber to your online reviews and I only wish someone was doing what you’re doing in the US for UK television news.