In the Age of Hyperpolitics
This morning, as I cruised through the normal feed of websites, I came to the front page of Talking Points Memo, which normally features short posts on the left, and some video coverage on the right hand side of the page.
This morning that video was an imbedded Qik video, an interview with comedian Harry Shearer (Mr. Skinner, to you Simpsons fans), recorded at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Recorded on a mobile.
Sure the quality stinks. If they’d used a thousand-dollar consumer-level HD camcorder (such as my own Canon HF-10), the video quality would be fantastic. But the folks at TPM already know that there is no “gold standard” for video. They are using an external, handheld microphone, which means they’ve grasped the importance of sound recording. In video, sound tells the story.
I wonder just how many other of the “Big Tent” bloggers are using Qik at DNC08.