Monday, September 19, 2005
CNN Hacks New TV Technology
Wired News does a pretty good profile of The Situation Room and how it is using technology. Below is an excerpt from the article in which CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman comments about the technology used on TSR: "In January 2000, Bohrman left an earlier stint at CNN for Pseudo, which was known at the time for surreal, Warholian mega-parties that defined the Silicon Alley scene.
"The party stuff was interesting, but what lasted is that we defined a new form of participatory programming that fused TV and internet," Bohrman told Wired News. "That's what I brought back with me when I returned."
After coming back to CNN, Bohrman produced presidential convention coverage for the network in 2004.
"We had Wolf walking out on the convention floor, paying attention to what was circulating on the blogs, and we tried an experiment with (blog search service) Technorati," Bohrman said. "Not everything worked perfectly, but we learned a lot."
For election night coverage in November 2004, the network rented out Nasdaq headquarters in New York, and displayed data on a wall of screens throughout the broadcast.
"It worked, and that taught us something about spatial display of information -- it's possible to do things that aren't linear," said Bohrman. "
Read the full article HERE.
"The party stuff was interesting, but what lasted is that we defined a new form of participatory programming that fused TV and internet," Bohrman told Wired News. "That's what I brought back with me when I returned."
After coming back to CNN, Bohrman produced presidential convention coverage for the network in 2004.
"We had Wolf walking out on the convention floor, paying attention to what was circulating on the blogs, and we tried an experiment with (blog search service) Technorati," Bohrman said. "Not everything worked perfectly, but we learned a lot."
For election night coverage in November 2004, the network rented out Nasdaq headquarters in New York, and displayed data on a wall of screens throughout the broadcast.
"It worked, and that taught us something about spatial display of information -- it's possible to do things that aren't linear," said Bohrman. "
Read the full article HERE.
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