The Long Boom (of Web TV) and the Future of Web Apps

As I write....Web TV Tuttlers are recording PM Gordon Brown's conference live as he speaks, transmitting it over various online multi-media. Mike Atherton & Christian Payne were let loose by Reuters' Ilicco Elia. Here it is on Qik:



As Mike blogs:

Today we’re taking a similarly high profile event that is already being broadcast worldwide (you can find a feed on the Thomson Reuters site as well as Christian’s blog) and seeing what we can add to the mix. With Gordon Brown due to start talking on the present economic crisis what can two beardy blokes with a few laptops and small cameras possible hope to add?

Well nothing directly on what is about to be said. I have as much interest in current politics as I did in marketing movies. I’m here with Christian to start conversations around the NewsMaker event that are currently not part of Reuter’s remit. I sincerely hope that following today the idea of getting these events discussed on social media platforms such as Twitter, Seesmic and Phreadz becomes a natural part of the news media’s roadmap.

Broadcasting on such a scale is brilliant. Listening to the conversations those broadcasts generate is even better.

And a happy side product is that we legitimise a little more the work we do (and by we I mean not just Christian and I, but all social media users) and the platforms we live and play on.

And hey look - I just used a free iPhone app to break a huge event. Don’t you just love living in the future?

You want to know where the Future of Web Apps is being made? Its here. Now. On your Web TV.

And The Long Boom bit - well, apart from it being the start of the New Hollywood, this also referred to ways to get Christian Payne out the front row via luring him with shiny tech toys - I opined that:

am thinking it may be necessary to hook a long boom mike with shiny toy to lure @documentally away