By Steve Lee
Editor
Streaming, Reporting, Evolving & Capping
Thanks for coming back and reading my second blog in recent weeks. I hope you enjoyed last week’s in which I talked presidential campaigns and online media, the NFL Draft, environmental awards, and a health tip regarding heat illness. Come on in, comment, and join the NetCast Studio community.
NetCast Studio: Steaming Live
I would personally like to welcome Telestream.net to the NetCast Studio family. Wirecast powers all of our podcasts. Produce, stream, and record professional looking broadcasts from your computer! Be sure and see all of their great products at telestream.net. We are looking into doing major things with our live video streaming and Telestream.net is going to offer us that chance. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for live recording dates and times. We love the chance to interact with our listeners, our friends, and our colleagues.
Are we all reporters in the digital age?
I found out about the killing of Osama Bin Laden via Twitter, as many of you did. Others may have heard through Facebook, text message, other 2.0 tools, or any of the major news media apps that are out there. It got me thinking – are we all reporters now in the digital age? We all witness events throughout the day that we find to be newsworthy. We all experience different situations that cause us to send out tweets & status updates. The very popular CNN iOS app has a feature in which you can upload video of events you just witnessed and share them with other users. Let us not forget that individually, you and I are being watched and probably reported on throughout the day as well. This sounds creepy but it is very true people. Remember…it’s more than a simple two-way street on the digital highway.
The English Premier League & Instant Replay
Football, more commonly known around that world as soccer, is the only major sport that has yet to climb on board and buy into the instant replay model. The NFL led the way, followed by the NBA, NHL, MLB, and the NCAA. Each program has its own strengths and weaknesses to their system. At least they have a system in place, flawed or not! The EPL, MLS, and the World Cup continue to refuse the acceptance of modern technology into a game that so desperately needs it. As many witnessed, goals that are not goals are counting and non-goals that are goals are being discounted. It’s time to move into 2011 folks. Incorporate instant replay. Evolve. Adapt.
Bandwidth Capping: A Consumer’s Nightmare
If there were one student in your class misbehaving, would you punish the entire classroom? In essence, AT&T is doing this. Instead of limiting, monitoring, and charging those users that use a tremendous amount of bandwidth, they have implemented a company-wide policy on capping. The limit of 250G sounds like a lot, but it’s not. With constant and normal activities such as computer updates, online gaming, photo uploads, web surfing, and instant HD streaming, it’s easy to see where you could rack up serious usage in a short period of time. This means another number we need to follow, another stupid rule that will be forced upon us, and the setting of a new industry standard. It screams of net neutrality. AT&T – I hope you lose millions based on your capping decision.
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