Find it with TV Eyes

Discovered TV Eyes, through Rubel's links today. I find lots of neat things in Steve's links.

TV Eyes is video news search, using voice recognition technology to create a search able text based archive. So far, and it's early, only major US networks are included. Canadian broadcasters just don't get opportunity the net offers to extend their brands.

These new search technologies are only useful if you can apply them locally. So I tried it. Got mixed results. Four searches popped up under Stephen Harper, Canada's new prime minister Only one under Oil Sands, the largest industrial project, in Canada these days. Last week, it hit America when 60 Minutes came to town. It's important for Americans because the Pentagon is not required to get the oil. We'll sell it to you! I digress!

TV EYES is worth a spin. When it's local, that's when 'they'll have something that I'll buy.

A Flock of Canards from Pollard

Dave Pollard offers up his election analysis here, a flock of canards about what's next, in Canada, from the newly elected Conservative Government.

He sees American neocons taking over. Dave thinks, Conservative 'proposed' tax cuts are not a good thing. I guess tax surpluses, government stealing, is a good thing. Dave says Kyoto will be abolished. Maybe it should be. The Americans are doing better on co2, without it, than we are. Maybe 'we' can do better!

Dave says the Americans have stolen more of our money, in the softwood lumber dispute , than the Liberals did, in the AdScam scandal. In Dave's world, government theft, on the left, is ok. In the lumber dispute, the Liberals didn't get our money back back, either. So much for standing on guard for thee!

He doesn't say anything about the gun Registry, which cost $4 billion and hasn't kept a single illegal gun off the streets because it registers people who own guns, not the guns. Dave doesn't think you should own property, because, gosh you may use a gun to defend it.

Dave thinks property rights will result in cruelty to animals despite federal authority to make sure it doesn't happen. He doesn't say anything about the abrogation of civil and human rights under the liberals.

Dave simply doesn't trust you, so much for wisdom of the crowds.

I think Dave was just having an unusually gloomy day. He 'knows' it doesn't matter who's running the ' show' because we are all in this alone, anyway!

Think Twice and Think Again

Dave Pollard is one of the most erudite bloggers I read. He's urging Canadians to think twice and vote liberal today.

Think again, 3 reasons not to follow Dave's advice.

1) Money Laundering and robbing the Federal Treasury by the Liberal Party of Canada. ADSCAM

2) Denying and failing to protect Canadian Citizenship and citizens .Mahar Arrar

3) Abolition of habeas corpus in Canada by the creation of Certificates of Detention .

"Once signed, the certificate is referred to the Federal Court of Canada. The judge examines the information and evidence in private, in the absence of the person named in the certificate and their counsel. Upon examining the information and evidence, the judge determines what information cannot be disclosed for reasons that its disclosure would be injurious to national security or to the safety of any person.

The determination of the judge is final and may not be appealed or judicially reviewed. If a certificate is determined not to be reasonable, it is quashed and if detained, the individual is released from detention."

Dave why are you asking us to re-elect criminals, and statists who have stolen our money and abolished our rights?. Whatever happened to the wisdom of the crowds Dave?

Global TV's Broadband is Pathetic

Global Television Canada's broadband initiative is inept.

Where's the video? Present this Canadian election story as video. Leverage the asset as instant broadband news . Use it to promote the broadcast newscast. It is a simple procedure to produce a digital video of that story for broadband release. It is equally s simple to provide for viewer commentary about it. Attach it to an RSS feed, so it automatically goes to my phone, laptop, or desk top computer. Create an incentive for me to respond .

By the time the 'appointment news' is ready for delivery, the story will garner viewer perspective, participation and feed back. Viewer perspective becomes the focus, rather than a 6 hour old clip from a party leader. Play back viewers' video comments, on the broadcast news. Quote them directly! Give your 'customers' sponsors and advertisers, another platform to reach 'your' viewers. Give them both a value added reason to partner with you!

Currently, the network offers three weak broadband initiatives; a podcast download, a video comment, and inept correspondent blog. The blog offers no discussion with viewers, or reporter perspective. Currently, they are an after thought, and actually debase the brand.

Virtual Bus a Canadian election video blog initiative wouldn't load for me, probably just me . Don't hide it. Put that video up front where 'we' can see it. Give your sponsor some profile by doing that.


Creating viewer value is the challenge. Right now Global doesn't get it. Unfortunately, that's not a huge corporate concern, in Canadian Industry dominated by two conglomerates. Both are light years behind their global competitors.

Appointment television is a no growth business. Finding a path from behind the protective copy right dominated, regulatory curtain, is not the business of monopolies . Canadians are not getting leading edge innovation from their broadcasters. Everyone is worse off!

The value of Scoop

Buzz Machine is creating intense, but friendly, discussion, today, on the value proposition between 'scoop', first to post /publish and 'discussion' sharing /collaborating. Perhaps the discussion could explore business concepts that can raise the value of 'discussion', while maintaining the 'integrity' of scoop. Attribution would seem to be a key component.

Customer focus is a major issue, particularly, the contention it is lacking in traditional media. Customer focus seeks to match audience sponsor and business 'needs'. Client confidentiality has to be factored into the dynamic, somewhere. Consider a newspaper that has just scored a sponsorship deal for a series on a new, locally developed, technology, for waste management. What's the key factor in this scenario, being first to publish, or taking an originator position and creating discussion? Which of the three parties media company , sponsor, and audience benefits the most from which action?

Managing the client relationship, while promoting discussion is high risk wire act. Withholding the ' news', until it's packaged is the easy way to manage it, until the value in discussion can be quantified. When that happens, 'scoop' takes on new relevancy morphing from destination to origination. Then scoop becomes source.

Stunning Internet TV

MediaStorm is worth a look It is a new Internet TV channel offering from Brightcove.



Elegant photo journalism combined with music and 'ambient' actuality sound . Visual and visceral story telling here.

One quip the black background is not conducive to easy navigation, one of Brightcove's key content presentation principles. If user control is paramount seeing the controller is important.

Spin is Dead

There's lots more to the Canadain election than the theatre of the absurd of the campaign. Spin analysis by the blogosphere is brand new stuff. Here are two blogs illustrating the dynamic at play, in this 'new media' world. This piece should hit the 6 o'clock news.

What's important for business, those in communication, and those that do, is to undertsand your message is open for immediate discussion, disection, and authenticity analysis. These are bottom line issues worthy of serious analysis.

ABC Scoops itself on Line

Two new services from ABC today . A dynamic version of world news tonight on line at ABCNews.com site and a daily blog TheWorldNewser
Apointment TV is no longer!.

No Chunks in Canada

It's way past time for Canada's media monopolies, including the CBC, to un-bundle content. On Jan 1, 2006, CBC News, Sunday Night, produced an inspiring piece on conflict resolution.

Try as I might, I can't to find it, repositioned, on the website. Here is a chunk of inspirational content languishing, in TV's 'already aired bin, instead of dynamically mashing it's way through the net.

Canada's private broadcasters, Can West and Bell Globe Media, languish, both in print and television.'They' feed us morsels locked up tight, with subscriptions, fees, and strings of one sort or another. They haven't figured out how to make money by' freeing' up these assets. The only way to create new business models is to do it. Others, see value in 'un-bundling’.

More importantly, I ( we) can get what we need from them. That should be sufficient motivation to inspire some movement. CBC, at least, makes its archive available. That's a mashup, new media jargon for re purposing content, with attribution. The BBC is the global leader, in brand extension, through this medium of content delivery.

On December 12, 2005, Telus TV launched, an unbundled glimpse of the future, perhaps. Given the Canadian penchant to embrace technology, Canadian media companies should be leaders global leaders in this sphere.They aren't! They're timid!. Monopolies are like that!