Documentally.com» press http://documentally.com Talking, teaching and documenting. Especially using mobile tools. Running workshops and consulting worldwide with a focus on social technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:03:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Documentally.com http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/9dbb2b1f42b106d58f7b79404520d3dc.png?s=48 http://documentally.com Weapon of mass distraction reports Tiger Woods, Xfactor shocker! http://documentally.com/2009/12/12/weapon-of-mass-distraction-reports-tiger-woods-xfactor-shocker/ http://documentally.com/2009/12/12/weapon-of-mass-distraction-reports-tiger-woods-xfactor-shocker/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:10:00 +0000 Documentally http://ourmaninside.com/2009/12/12/weapon-of-mass-distraction-reports-tiger-woods-xfactor-shocker/ Once again I wake to the BBC News channel ‘Britain’s most watched news channel’ wondering why I bother. I can avoid buying the Daily Mail and it’s tittle tattle quite easily yet i find the BBC’s 24 hour news channel streamed into my home unavoidably disappointing.

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I am forced to pay to have the BBC in my home, is it too much to ask for a news service to transmit what I class as ‘News’?

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The order of the headlines this morning were Xfactor and Tiger Woods in the top slots, followed by a one minute clip of Tony Blair stating he would have invaded Iraq with or without evidence of weapons of mass distraction.

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We listen to this and still carry on with our morning, downing another spoonful of the luke warm half-arsed media served to us for breakfast each day.

We are not nearly angry enough.

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Who’s fault is this..? Who is responsible for our main stream news?

The journalists?  The news agencies?  The channels?  The viewers?  I think I know. 

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How about we start to celebrate International Journalist Day?  We already have World Press Freedom Day on May the 3rd, but I propose for one day of the year we give all journalists on all the papers and TV stations free rein to report whatever stories they want to. This will give the journalists themselves the chance to tell us what they think is newsworthy.  What they would like to tell the world.

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Maybe then we could see who out there cares about what is reported and take note of their names. These are the journalists we will be sponsoring/enabling/supporting when the old news programming model goes through the drastic transformation it so desperately needs. 

I am turning on the TV less and less for my news and this bothers me.

What is the majority of the population being told is news right now?

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I know of places I can go for to be reliably informed. Like a shopper on the black market, I have certain corners of the internet I know I can visit to get news i trust. How about those that don’t? What are we being brought up to care about?

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Other resources: FactCheck.org,  Under The Carpet

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]]> http://documentally.com/2009/12/12/weapon-of-mass-distraction-reports-tiger-woods-xfactor-shocker/feed/ 0 A moment with Tony Benn http://documentally.com/2008/06/26/a-moment-with-tony-benn/ http://documentally.com/2008/06/26/a-moment-with-tony-benn/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:51:03 +0000 Documentally http://ourmaninside.com/?p=179 tony benn A moment with Tony BennToday whilst passing through London and before descending into the tube, I just happened to pop outside Euston train station and spotted Tony Benn sat on a bench lighting his pipe.

I was on the way down to Southampton to pick up a car and although I have no idea what made me pop outside the station after getting off the train, I am glad i did.

I was not going pass up the opportunity to chat with a lifelong hero of mine so I wondered over and introduced myself.

We had a brief discussion about the National Union of Journalists before I suddenly remembered I had in my bag a pro stills camera, a web enabled mobile phone and a mini video camera.

Although Tony Benn only had about five minutes to catch his train to Preston he was kind enough to humour me as I conducted a short interview on video.. I then took a few stills and showed him how easy it was using Qik to stream from a mobile phone.


Tony is no stranger to being interviewed or filmed as he spends much of his life on the lecture circuit in the public eye. It was the quick demo of the technology around live streaming from a mobile device straight to the web that seemed to interest him the most.

In about three minutes we were done and a slightly amazed Tony Benn took my card and invited me to get in touch so I could introduce him to more of this technology.

It was a really great start to the day for me. Totally unexpected and I was glad I had my ‘geek’ bag at the ready.

I have been a fan of Tony Benn and his work for a while now and am so glad to have finally met him. Not only that, but as a great bonus I now have his home number and hope to do a more in depth interview in the future.

Here is the same video on YouTube

..and my thoughts on Qik straight afterwards.

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