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Andrew Romano
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Sep 19, 2007 11:07 AM
Last Wednesday, September 12, Yahoo! News, the Huffington Post and Slate magazine co-sponsored the "first-ever online-only presidential mashup" marking the dawn of a new era in the American political process. Or, you know, not.
The
plan was actually kind of cool: Yahoo! would give citizen editors (you,
me, the odd, nervous fellow next door) access to raw footage of the
eight Democratic presidential candidates separately answering debate
questions on Iraq, health care and education and then allow them to
splice, dice, overdub, caption and spread their new Frankenvideos as
they saw fit. The interviews taped Wednesday and, after a brief
delay--Yahoo! initially prevented users from doing anything but
arranging the clips, playlist-style, by candidate or topic--they went
live the next day on Jumpcut, Yahoo's video editing site, with Arianna
Huffington offering to highlight the best submissions on the Huffington
Post’s homepage. (Co-sponsor Slate, like Newsweek, is owned by the
Washington Post Company).
So, one week later, what have the master masher-uppers of America done with all that raw video? Not much.
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