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Standing on the shoulders of billions of dwarfs: as
information becomes a live conversation
By Michele Mezzanew media’s RAI vice chief manager
مارس 2010 رياض
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“Hallah gave us two ears and one mouth.So listenis much more importantthan talk”
Nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes
“Nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea..” ”
( Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis)
Standing on the shoulders of giants
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.” ”
(Bernard of Chartres, French philosopher of the twelfth century)
“Our societies are now structured on the clash between the network and the ego”
Manuel Castells
The message is not the medium but its speed (Paul Viriliò)
Speed as value
Internet’s power evolutionA film like Matrix1993 9,600 bits per second modem 45 days
1995 28,800 bits per second modem 15 days
1997 64,000 bits per second digital line Isdn 7 days
1999 640,000 bits per second digital line Adsl 16 hours
2003 2,000,000 bits per second fiber 1 hour
2010 1,000,000,000 bits per second Google experimental fiber network 40 seconds
The network and the power in the hands of the dwarves
two million video files relating to information
100 million blogs currently in regular operation
A common cell phone, dancing in our pocket, contains the same power of Apollo 1’ memory
The tiny SD memory cards can earn 2 terabytes of memory
Good quality TV movie over the last 15 years has dropped by 1800%
DYI TVInternet as engineengine
notnot as showcaseshowcase
London: December 2004 broadband 4 MegTokyo : February 2005 broadband 15 Meg
New Copernican revolution
In a world of scarcity TV the problem was: Who speaks?
In the age of abundance the problem is: Who listens?
Moses Znaimer Canada’s City Tv President
Media Consumption Timeline
Journalism is, in the words of James W. Carey
“Our day book, our collective diary, which records our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes unpreserved except in the vanishing moment of our individual lives.”
Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press by Jay Rosen
Two assumptions underlying the development of web TV
Moore’s Law
Metcalfe’s Law
The community value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users increase.
The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.
Abbrevieted blogging Timeline
• 1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!)
• 1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog
• 2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total
• February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs • 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger• 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B
monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities
Real-Time Reporting
The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.
• TWITTER & NEWS in the WORLD
• Amplified voices of dissent• Facilitated misinformation (intentional and
unintentional)• Incomplete story• Emotional • Triggered MSM response
TargetTarget
We want to implement in the traditional news cycle, the ability to acquire and process more automatic as possible for large amounts, audio / video / photo / text from alternative sources (3G network, web, ...) to the traditional
Why?Why? Web, 3G network ... are the factory and not the
showcase of news Every editorial apparatus must prepare to acquire and process real-time, as automatic as possible, all new types of contributionCompetitiveness Reducing management costsManual reduction in the process of newsgathering in order to use precious human resources for activities
Now the newsgathering is currently characterized by ….….
Limited sources
Manual high costs of treatment
Reproductive processes and the multiplication of the corresponding costs
Unified and centralized newsgathering
GOOGLE NEWS RAI …… GOOGLE NEWS RAI …… updated in real time, easy to navigate, and characterized by a multitude of information
sources
…… to emphasize and privilege the Rai’s professionalism expressed mainly in the preparation of information flows and packaging the final product and not rather in the operation of
newsgathering …………
Applications of the "new" newsgathering ….….
Teleport
Contributions DTT
STORAGE
Internal Virtual
Agency
Web/Mobile
Access
SMS/MMS/VIDEO-CHIAMATE/WEB CHIAMATE/FOTO
Web
BLOG/RSS Feed 3D Libraries
Local newspapers
National newspapers
RAI’s other sources
Traditional Sources
New patterns of New patterns of “connectivity” for the “connectivity” for the
journalistjournalist
Modem UMTS/GPRS
UMTS/GPRSUMTS/GPRS
Place RAI
WIFI/ ADSLWIFI/ ADSL
Place RAI
UMTSUMTS
Place RAI
Flo
win
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low
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Liv
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Place RAI
DSNG Fly- away SatelliteDSNG Fly- away Satellite
New production facilities for the journalist
new production facilities for the journalist
New roles for the home user
Foto/SMS/MMS/VideoClipFoto/SMS/MMS/VideoClip
Collection center RAI
Collection center RAI
NewsGathering from PEOPLE
NewsGathering from PEOPLE
What others do …(BBC)What others do …(BBC)
NewsGathering from PEOPLE
What others do …(CNN)What others do …(CNN)
So .... New sources for newsgathering… become
3G ContributionsSMS,MMS,E-MAIL, VIDEO SMS,MMS,E-MAIL, VIDEO
CALLS UMTS->PCCALLS UMTS->PC
BLOG,AUDIO,VIDEO, BLOG,AUDIO,VIDEO, PHOTOS, PHOTOS, LAST MINUTE OF EVENTS WHICH ARE
NOT YET AVAILABLE, AGENCIES
TV CHANNELS VIDEO+AUDIO TV CHANNELS VIDEO+AUDIO TRASCRIBED CATALOGS TRASCRIBED CATALOGS THROUGH INFORMATION THROUGH INFORMATION
RETRIEVED FROM THE RETRIEVED FROM THE GROUNDGROUND
3D GRAPHIC MODELS 3D GRAPHIC MODELS (es, (es, Google Earth used as coverage tool for
TV stations)
Web Contributions
Virtual Libraries
Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age GroupsApril 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
More Working iPhone Owners Use Social MediaJune 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet”
Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected ConsumerApril 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
• Blogging is part of the web’s evolutionary path• The real time web (Twitter et al) is the next
mediamorphosis• Impact on civic life will depend on media
literacy efforts
Multiple sources: Using traditional and alternative sources
Sources availability real-time: web or newmedia channels
Multiple formats
Fewer constraints
Cost reduction
Reuse resources for valuable assignments
Every child more like his time than to his father.