The U.S. Supreme Court has banned the streaming of L.A.’s Proposition 8 trials via YouTube, but that hasn’t stopped filmmaker John Ireland from posting something to the popular video hosting site. Ireland is creating a series of short movies from the real transcripts from the trial and posting them on YouTube. There has even been rumors of A-list celebrities being involved in the project.
View the trailer here.
Ars Technica reports that the ultimate news sourcing experiment will kick off in February. Five journalists from France, Canada, Switzerland and Belgium will hole themselves up in a remote farmhouse with no internet access, except for access to Facebook and Twitter, to test the efficacy of social media news posts.
France Inter editor Helene Jouan said:
The journalists must then report on as much news as they can using those two mediums—presumably, they can send @ replies and ask other Twitter users questions in order to glean more information. They will have a communal blog where they can report on the news, and they will talk about their experiences on their respective radio stations after the experiment is over. “Our aim is to show that there are different sources of information and to look at the legitimacy of each of these sources.”
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