Qik Football Reports

Just seen this via the Journalism.co.uk blog – the Express & Star using Qik for post-match video summaries from their reporters at the match.

Done just after the final whistle, still with lots of stuff going on in the background, I love seeing free web tools used in a wider variety of applications like this. The gap between consumers and producers really is getting pretty tight now (actually it’s pretty non existent in some places) and the use of Qik here makes perfect sense – to get video reports that capture the atmosphere of the match out super quick as possible for next to nothing. Bring it on.

Oh and while we’re at it, Qik (now with iPhone 3G support)should talk to SpinVox (now with social networks support) and enable on-the-fly video transcripts to be converted and posted alongside videos. That way, it’s text and video heaven, complete with SEO loveliness and the potential for comments, quoting, jump links to different video sections and all sorts of other nice open access stuff and maybe even the dirty word – ads.

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