Twitter Media Grid: A place for all your Vines, and Videos, and Photos

Jut saw this from my friend CC Chapman:

When did Twitter roll out the media grid on everyone's profiles? twitter.com/cc_chapman/med…

— C.C. Chapman (@cc_chapman) April 3, 2013

Update:
After I posted this, I started looking around to see if there was a new Twitter menu to get to this Media Grid. Yup. It's there on the left side bar on the Twitter profile page.

It's a link called See all photos and videos. It's been there for a while. I've never used it. ;-)



Here's my Media Grid:



This is cool, and needed.

I have a place for my photos: Flickr.

I have a place for my Videos: YouTube.

A PLACE FOR VINE VIDEOS
But I don't have a place for my Vine videos. Since twitter rolled out Vine, I've been able to share Vine videos, but have only been able to share them one at a time, by tweeting them, posting to Facebook, or embedding them.

Then, the only way to find one of your Vine videos, on the web, was to search back through one of those places to find it.

TWITTER VINE EMBED
Before Media Grid I would have had to search my twitter stream to find this Vine from Easter:

Easter! vine.co/v/bIhVt6ehtPt

— Steve Garfield (@stevegarfield) March 31, 2013

NEW VINE DIRECT EMBED
Now I can use Media Grid to find a recent Vine and embed it with the new Vine embed code:



Earlier: Now you can Embed Vines

NICE START, NEEDS FILTERS
The Media Grid is a nice start for having a page that I can point people to.

It just needs to have a filter for types of content, so a visiter can select: All Photos, All Videos, or Vine Videos.

What do you think?

Boston Media Makers 10/05/08

Boston Media Makers meet the first Sunday of every month at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain, MA

bostonmediamakers.wordpress.com

Sean Hannity broadcast live from my cellphone

Sean Hannity broadcast live from my cellphone in Manchester, NH while being interview by Howie Carr on WRKO...

"Don't you love that you are being taped everywhere, you can't walk down the street."

Plus you get a behind the scenes tour of radio row...

Boston Media Makers: Next Meeting 01/06/08

Boston Media Makers 01/06/08 - Originally uploaded on flickr by stevegarfield.

Boston Media Makers

Next Meeting:
Sunday January 6, 2008

Sweet Finnish
761 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

Steve Says:
I’ll be doing a demonstration of LIVE broadcasting from a cellphone. Very cool technology.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Please register at upcoming.
upcoming.yahoo.com/event/349350/

Content exists to attract passive viewers who will sit still for advertisements

You Don't Understand Our Audience
What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC.
By John Hockenberry:

Networks are built on the assumption that audience size is what matters most. Content is secondary; it exists to attract passive viewers who will sit still for advertisements. For a while, that assumption served the industry well. But the TV news business has been blind to the revolution that made the viewer blink: the digital organization of communities that are anything but passive. Traditional market-driven media always attempt to treat devices, audiences, and content as bulk commodities, while users instead view all three as ways of creating and maintaining smaller-scale communities. As users acquire the means of producing and distributing content, the authority and profit potential of large traditional networks are directly challenged.

In the years since my departure from network television, I have acquired a certain detachment about how an institution so central to American culture could shift so quickly to the margins. Going from being a correspondent at Dateline--a rich source of material for The Daily Show--to working at the MIT Media Lab, where most students have no interest in or even knowledge of traditional networks, was a shock. It has given me some hard-won wisdom about the future of journalism, but it is still a mystery to me why television news remains so dissatisfying, so superficial, and so irrelevant. Disappointed veterans like Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather blame the moral failure of ratings-obsessed executives, but it's not that simple. I can say with confidence that Murrow would be outraged not so much by the networks' greed (Murrow was one of the first news personalities to hire a talent agent) as by the missed opportunity to use technology to help create a nation of engaged citizens bent on preserving their freedom and their connections to the broader world.

Great read.

via [ Ron Watson ]

The Way story generation, reporting and follow-up will be

MediaShift . Reconstructing Reporting::Revamping the Story Flow for Journalists | PBS.

BTW, I'd like flickr to put the following helpful. HTML code on all photos that are CC Licensed. Not just display it on your own pictures. Come on guys!



Please!

And while you are at it, please include the attribution and license information too.

Thanks.

Bye.

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