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Remixing News Video On The Fly

Posted by timothy on from the when-the-going-gets-absurd dept.

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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  1. fp nig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol omg

  2. But what's better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Making your own newscasts?

    or

    2. Sex with CmdrTaco and a mare?

    1. Re:But what's better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      2., but without Taco because he smells a bit

  3. Movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are all the movies out in the theaters now such utter and total garbage? I haven't seen anything good since Donnie Darko.

  4. MOD PARENT +2 INTERESTING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Most news is very sensationalist and strikes fear into us so that we CONSUME.

  5. no yuo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. THE fRench love that fat fuck by CreamOfWheat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    anyway-

  7. Political Speech on a Technical Site by cosmicpossum · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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...

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