Wed 13 Feb 2008
Way, way after the fact I thought I’d make note of some other Super Tuesday on MTV coverage on the internet.
- Local lifestyle e-zine eLife Magazine did a well-produced video piece on my role in MTV’s Choose or Lose Street Team ‘08, in which I spout buckets of horse manure about the youth vote when suddenly cornered on topics outside of the scope of what I was expecting to talk about. With only 12 YouTube views in the 8 days it’s been up, it should make all my fellow Street Teamers feel better about not having a firm grasp on our own viewership statistics. Still, it’s some pretty good video work by the interviewer, even if the web designer follows an odd practice of only color-coding URLs cited and not actually hyperlinking them to the target website.
- MobileActive.org is a very cool site for anyone who’s interested in the impact cellular phones have on social change, politics, and journalism. Naturally, they were pretty psyched about mobile handsets being used to cover Super Tuesday, and I was pretty psyched that Corrine didn’t use any of the buckets of horse manure that similarly spewed forth when I was on the phone with her (I blame it on my blog having just crashed, on the night before our big citJ extravaganza).
Other commentators on the project generally:
- Socialtimes.com thought this was yet another example of MTV pushing the edge of media even though that means they don’t so much play music videos anymore.
- ReadWriteWeb called it a coup for citizen journalism even though MTV’s previous technovation with Twitter was unimpressive.
- Michael Connery over at FutureMajority.com seemed a little underwhelmed with our cameraphoning skillz, but I’m a little underwhelmed with the comment traffic there, so no skin off our noses. And furthermore, pbbbbbbbbbbbt.
- Mark Hopkins at Mashable.com was “cautiously optimistic” and raised some interesting legal concerns among other things.
Tags: citizen journalism, streetteam08
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February 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Thanks for the plug! And thanks for the interview with Cory. And by the way, what is this cool little twitter widget on your site? Where can I find it?
Thanks again!
Katrin/MobileActive.org
February 13th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
It’s the standard one on the Twitter site. Which I now see they’ve hidden very well…hmmm. Where DID I get it? Oh well. There’s another one by Widgetbox that I find appealing, too, b/c it has your avatar in it, but it lacks color customization.
Aha! At the bottom of your Twitter home page, click the “Grab a badge” link. Sneaky, that.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Nice interview. I definitely saw your mental bifurcation on the “3 Top issues” question -
Your mouth was sayin’ “Environment”…
… But your face was saying “Forsooth! I am talking out of mine own ass! What am I saying? I wasn’t listening to myself! I hope I’m saying something smart…Oh crap!”