p2p news / p2pnet:- If the mainscream media are feeling the pressure from infonews sites and blogs, B-B-B-Baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, to quote the words of BTO.

We’re talking indie Net journalists taking over from the scribes of yesteryear with straight-up reporting, untainted by corporate self-interests.

p2pnet was one of the first sites to feature rss (Really Simple Syndication), and now we’re going video.

Charbax recently vlogged the IFA consumer electronic show in Berlin and turned us on to the results. So, “How about becoming p2pnet’s roving video reporter?” – we asked him.

“Cool! That sounds great!” – he said. “You could then link directly to the BitTorrent file that’s the high definition video from within the news article.”

He says his region is “around Europe, mostly between Denmark and Switzerland,” so expect Charbax vblogs from those areas.

Home-based Net reporters have shown many hitherto respected members of the world print corpse to be blatantly unfair and unbalanced. And the same applies to the electronic media.

But just as important, home-spun reporters can come up with news stories that are a hell of a lot more relevant than the all-too-often distorted output from traditional sources.

Don’t Lose the Question
Ben Marble proved that when he showed US president (sorry, vice president) Dick Cheney being clever in Gulfport, one of the communities stuck by Hurricane Katrina.

And Norway’s Raymond Kristiansen, a member of the country’s Liberal party, is another example of what a video-blogger can achieve.

His D-L-T-Q stands for Don’t Lose the Question and as he “weaves quickly in and out of the crowds of locals and tourists on the streets of Bergen”, he’s, “constantly on the prowl for footage,” says the BBC.

Nine parties are competing for votes and Kristiansen, 27, is turning his camcorder on politicians, ahead of Norwegian parliamentary elections on Monday, says the story.

“We don’t need the mainstream media to tell us what’s interesting anymore,” he’s quoted as saying. “Millions of people want to tell their stories, and with video-blogging, they can tell their stories.”

Kristiansen is helping to organise the European Videoblogging Conference in Amsterdam, slated to start yesterday (September 11).

Meanwhile, if you’re out there cam in hand and you’d like to see your digital footage online, email jon[at]p2pnet.net : ) and we have but one request. Let it be news! In other words, no home videos ; )

Definitely stay tuned.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi

See:-
recently vlogged - Charbax at the IFA show, September 7, 2005
being clever in Gulfport - Dick Cheney yuks it up: II, September 10, 2005
BBC - Vloggers get political in Norway, September 10, 2005

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