By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
The bloggers will also have press credentials so they can mingle around the convention center to find their hot scoop or film a politician in a compromising situation that they can then upload to YouTube. Watch out Bill! Don’t grope that intern! There’s a camcorder following you!
“There’s no such thing as off the record anymore. There’s no such thing as private moments anymore,” says Simon Rosenberg, president and founder of NDN, formerly the New Democrat Network, and the New Politics Institute.
“We saw that with ‘macaca,'” Mr. Rosenberg said, referring to an incident in 2006 when a videographer recorded then-Sen. George Allen using a term often considered derogatory to some ethnic groups. “This is the condition of life now in the new media age.”
I think we’re going to see some interesting reporting at the conventions. We’re also going to see Google testing out some of their new beta tools such as their software which transcribes audio from video into text. I briefly reviewed it on my own blog. It’s rough around the edges but shows a lot of promise. So expect the political speeches from YouTube to be transcribed using this tool and then swiftly indexed on Google.
Google will offer services for bloggers at the conventions – Wall Street Journal
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