New Live Stream App May Be 2016 Game Changer

[Valin]

Real Clear Politics:

Caitlin Huey-Burns

March 16, 2015

 

You didn’t have be in one family’s Dover, N.H., living room Friday evening to see and hear what Jeb Bush had to say about education or immigration or whatever those gathered wanted to know. You didn’t even have to wait for the tweets from the reporters who were there too. Instead, you could see for yourself, in real time, thanks to a new mobile device app. Called Meerkat, it allows users to easily live-stream and share such events. Similar programs are in the works, including one recently purchased by Twitter.

 

Welcome to the ultra-modern political campaign, where everything candidates (and potential ones) do and say can be disseminated -- without a media filter -- even faster than it takes to write or read a tweet or a Facebook post.

 

Live streaming is hardly new, especially regarding political events. Appearances like the ones Bush (and Scott Walker, and Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz) made throughout New Hampshire over the weekend are often taped and streamed by C-SPAN or through subscription platforms like Ustream, and also tweeted about and reported on by journalists on the ground. But live streaming technology is now more accessible than ever for the average user. Such applications can be a useful resource for campaigns and reporters who cover them. Politicians have embraced social media as a way to engage constituents, and easy to use streaming services can be considered as a new way to communicate and appear accessible. But this new layer of access presents potential pitfalls, too

 

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“It's clear that the days of pen-and-pad or taped video events are over,” says Zeke Miller, a political reporter for Time magazine who used Meerkat while covering candidates in the Granite State this past weekend. “We're going to have entire micro-news cycles play out on Twitter in real time that the candidate and the reporters in the room aren't aware of,” said Miller, a prolific tweeter with a large following. “Will that be determinative in any way? No. But it just contributes to the ever-quickening [pace] of the campaign, which traditionalists will bemoan and others will find fun and exciting.”

 

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Welcome To The XXIst Century

[NCTexan]

So this is the little guy who's looking out for us in 2016?

 

Here's more on the app from Computerworld

 

[Valin]

@NCTexan

 

Remember when you had to wait hours or even a whole day to find out what happened?

[NCTexan]

@NCTexan

 

Remember when you had to wait hours or even a whole day to find out what happened?

 

@Valin

 

Them wuz the days...

 

Now you don't even have to wait for it to really happen... The MSM just tells you what should have happened... and to hell with waiting on the facts.

 

[Valin]

 

@NCTexan

 

Remember when you had to wait hours or even a whole day to find out what happened?

 

@Valin

 

Them wuz the days...

 

Now you don't even have to wait for it to really happen... The MSM just tells you what should have happened... and to hell with waiting on the facts.

 

 

 

 

SIGH

[clearvision]

Surprised porn is not the biggest consumer of this app.....

[Valin]

Surprised porn is not the biggest consumer of this app.....

 

 

.....Yet.

 

Something I read a while ago. 2 things are driving The Net...Porn & Gaming.

[RandyM]

Be careful the next time you go to dinner with a group of people.... may have to have everyone in the restaurant frisked first to ensure privacy.