Links

As you may or may not have noticed (depending on the number of times you've visited here...my guess is not that many:)) ive been adding a few banners down the side of the blog. They are various mobile WAP directories, which should help drive some traffic to the site. Well thats the idea anyway. I'm still playing around with them so have patience.

The Black Warrior River Keeper is really just a cause i would like to support even if its only posting the app for the time being. They are involved in keeping the Black River in Alabama clean from pollution and run a program of reporting any pollution into the river, especially from companies, industry, etc. A worthy cause if ever there was one.

Besides that i think the credit crunch is starting to take effect in the real world.

It would be great to see some video on how its effecting people/companies and life in general.

Lastly a credit crunch joke that i found here to help you laugh off those recession blues during these long winter evenings.


I can also predict my next post will not be untill 20th October.





Adios

Jack

Something for the weekend sir....?

This little handy app cropped up in my browser window. Spinspotter are in there own words:

"We are truth mongers. We are the destroyers of spin."

Awesome, we like this kind of attitude at NewsJack, bring it on.

Looks really interesting, even though its just text based (i think). Surely helpful to the evangelical of you out there searching for truths.

http://spinspotter.com

Anyway check it out, looks cool.


Out
Jack

Forget the Credit Crunch.........

We have a new featured channel at NewsJack, and we'd like to welcome Captain Ozone (one of lifes 'real' super heroes) to the NewsJack service.

You can view his channel and discover how Captain Ozone came into existence and why hes here warning the human race about the possible eco-disaster us humans appear to be bringing upon ourselves.here.

Heres a taster:




Also the WAP site has had some minor fixs.

Easy now
Jack

Fleetwood Pier burning down-Jacked

Fleetwood Pier burns, watch it at Newsjack.tv

Built in 1909, this morning Fleetwood Pier has been burning down. recently bought by a development company the fire is being treated as a possible criminal case. Watch the video at Newsjack.tv

On the back of the last post

An interesting article not about the NewsJack service but about a process known as NewsJacking.

Wanted......

Need some people who are willing to hammer the NewsJack service, test it out, try the process out from beginning to end, we can only test so much here and right now it works for us, does it work for you? Any feedback/help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Jack

The ideal Citizen journalist set-up

On the back of the QIK post below i just thought id mention what i think is the ideal set-up for a Citizen journalist.

Of course these days of cross-posting, RSS feeds and social networking site means alot of different services, application and websites all linking into each other and we dont want NewsJack to be left out. Taking that into account, we cant provide everything ourselves (or at least not yet), so in the meantime this is my ideal set up for citizen journalists.


Firts thing you need, (of course im bound to say this) a NewsJack account. So go set up an account and get your channel going.

You'll need a Blogger account for the written word and RSS feeds. There are other blogger sites out there, but this is the one I use.

Get QIK so you can stream live if you need to.


Sign up and install the Locatik which is a really handy location detector, and you can also post up the locations with a link to the video which gets displayed on a Google map for others to browse. Not just useful for NewsJack either, other members post interesting things such as recommendations for eating, tourist attractions, etc.




Hopefully you will also be able to embed your video into NewsJack aswell in the near future, meaning you only have to upload video to your favoured service and then post the code to NewsJack. But thats a little way off yet.


In the meantime the services mentioned above should help you out:)


Jack

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone

Yes we love this little app, and anyone thinking of using the NewsJack service should also install this app. Of course its a seperate thing from NewsJack, but we feel it would compliment it so much we have to plug it here:). Ok so the video i have isnt very interesting, (ill try and get something a little more interesting, tricky in a backwood town:)) but the principle that you can stream live from your phone is fantastic:).

Discussion boards

I've set up a discussion board at Ning. They provide some nice features, with a discussion board, you can post videos, pics, customize the layout. It's free to use so go get an account and start letting us know what you want from the NewsJack service, Highlight your latest sequences and clips, talk to other Newsjack and Ning members.


Theres a nice short animated film thats been put to a recording secretly taken of John Lennon talking openly and answering some questions. It was on the BBC here in the UK. maybe youll find something there. Actually the details of the film the title is "I Met The Walrus" by Canadian artist Josh Raskin, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short 2008. Go check it.

We like our culture, and we like our animation here at NewsJack:) Its not all war in the news you know.



Peace.


Jack