Posts Tagged as ‘qik’

8 September, 2008

Redefining citizen press at the RNC

I wrote previously about The Uptake and their amazing live video Qik coverage of the RNC. But the citizen and independent press at the RNC was even more impressive the more I got into it.

I am a regular user of Twitter (@tfooq), and I’m intrigued by the medium’s potential. But following [...]

1 September, 2008

Live citizen video journalism at the RNC

I have been captivated by the live video coverage of today’s RNC protests by The Uptake. It has been emotional, scary, tense, funny and informative throughout the day (and still continues as of this writing).
TV news better be frightened, because now regular people can do everything they can (except, of course, for the giant paychecks).
The [...]