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When I was at CMP, I participated in the launch of a daily Internet video program called The News Show (June 2005 - August 2006). About a dozen correspondents were given cheap webcams, video editing software and instructions to produce at least one clip per week. As you might imagine, the quality varied widely from day to day, and from correspondent to correspondent. Furthermore, the publications began to get a little tetchy about loaning out their reporters to a corporate startup initiative. (Unfortunately, the News Show site still exists but the clips seem to be gone, so you can't examine the remains yourself.)

Now, they've come up with its successor, a weekly program called The Friday ITch. The roving correspondents are gone, and they've replaced former News Show anchor John Soat with the saucy Sian Welby from the Rocketboom school. I'm impressed that actually went out and hired professional talent, rather than counting on amateurs like myself to entertain the troops.

They've given it a decidedly adult flavor this time around. I remember one of my favorite segments getting spiked for a risque comment about Lindsay Lohan. And now they make jokes about your pets watching you... well, I'm still running a family blog here, so I'll leave it up to you if you want to follow the link.

I'm looking into getting a digital camera by the time the Web 2.0 Expo rolls around, so that I can shoot some video for this here blog. If they're any good, maybe I can convince someone at YouTube to publish my clips. That would show everyone that I'm really hip.

Labels: blogging, vlogging, Web 2.0