Remixing News Video On The Fly

slashdotbs writes "The New York Times writes that 'A handful of Web users are programming their own virtual TV newscasts and eclectic collections of video clips using a free media-sharing tool called Webjay. The site makes it easy to build, share and watch playlists of audio and video links culled from around the Internet.' Although the site was originally intended to be used for audio playlist creation, it turns out that it can also be used effectively for video. In addition, you can create "video mashups", where you blend audio and video together to present a new message. By using simple smil commands in a URL, a CBS news report can become a short clip of George Bush saying "I can't do my job" (the third track on this playlist)."

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Political Speech on a Technical Site

[cosmicpossum]

It's getting very tiring reading the overtly partisan comments on shashdot. I would like to remind the everyone that there is an approximate even split in American public opinion on politics.

Being an election year means a long slog though the BS on both sides. Please let this be a retreat from it instead of an amplification of it.

Off of my soapbox now...