Blogger, technology consultant and college teacher Jeff Jarvis sees the light about the value of taking videos with his Nokia N82 five megapixel camera phone as he discusses in a video interview with Andy Plesser of Beet.TV (see below).
Jarvis was one of a few dozen journalists and bloggers attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland who received an N82 from Reuters and Nokia. He says in the interview that taking videos with the N82 changed his mind about the value of camera phone videos.
Jarvis says the cellular phone “fundamentally changes the architecture of news” because reports can be streamed live, rather than waiting for news organizations to post videos. “This little device, I think, is a bigger deal than I thought….This really opened my eyes,” he says.
Welcome to the club of believers about the power of live streaming cellular video, Jeff. The day is coming when any newsworthy event will be streamed live via cellular — often before professional journalists arrive — just as so many more camera phone photos and non-live videos are now taken by consumers.
Camera phones less intimidating
Jarvis also says people aren’t frightened by camera phones taking videos the way they can be intimidated by larger camcorders. He shot many videos at the World Economic Forum, using his N82 as well as a small, portable and cheap camcorder, FlipVideo, that are posted on his “Buzz Machine” weblog.
One interview, using the N82, was with David Cameron, the Leader of the Conservative Party in the U.K. and a member of Parliament (see below). Cameron discussed the Party’s Web videos; the Conservatives are posting a huge number of videos on their site.
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