Anthony Moor

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Will You Tube announce live streaming Wednesday?

Tech Crunch wonders in this post: What Does YouTube Have Up Its Sleeve? Guess Right, And Win An iPod Shuffle.

Live streaming would be an interesting game changer for TV station Web sites, which currently still own that capability exclusively -- but not for long!  Think what blogging has done to the ability of individuals to compete with newspaper.coms.  This development smacks of the same Alamo for TV.coms.

Later:  OK so they didn't announce live streaming.  It was a set of APIs.  But this is also pretty huge because, as Tech Crunch points out, "YouTube is not just white-labeling its video-hosting infrastructure for other sites, devices, and desktop applications. It is offering video-hosting for free."  So we could use You Tube's technology to let people upload videos from our site, comment, etc. and tap into the You Tube audience.  Downside, we don't get to upload ads etc.

How, and where, to hyperlink within a news story

Robert Niles provides a brief guide on How, and where, to hyperlink within a news story -- which has relevance in two areas for us at TDMN (The Dallas Morning News, for those who don't work here.)  First, bloggers should ask themselves if they're lnking to something that makes sense.  Secondly, as we look at vetting computer-based inline linking software, we should remember we can't just set up the system and forget it.  Robert noted one example of how that didn't serve Yahoo very well:

[Yahoo] linked the first reference to the country "China" in a story about the upcoming Beijing Olympics to... a page listing China's medal count from the most recent Olympics, in 2006. In Turin, Italy.