What should we stream next?

1 comment March 17th, 2009

Last week we did the Rockford mayoral debate. This week we did an interview with LaVonne Sheffield, the Rockford School Board’s choice to be superintendent of schools.

The mayoral debate had a lot of viewers; the superintendent chat, not so many. So what should we try next?

Executive Editor Linda Grist Cunningham wrote on her blog, “Editor’s note,” that we need to find a way to do a real Editorial Board meeting and not the “stilted back-and-forth.”

Linda and I talked for a bit yesterday about how to proceed. She thinks that the audio is what’s important and it doesn’t really matter what the camera picks up as long as you folks out there in Web land can hear what’s being talked about.

One thought was to set up a single, stationary camera in the room the Editorial Board  usually meets and then hit record. You won’t see us all, but you would hear our conversations.

Would you view an edit board meeting if it were presented like that, or do you want to see more exciting video? We’re new to this moving pictures game so we appreciate your feedback.