I surfed over to Dave Winer's site this morning, as I do every morning and found an incredibly naive posting from him on the tragic Virginia tech. incident. This surprised me from such an online media savvy person as Dave. In this post, Dave says:-
"The Virginia Tech shooter sent a package of video and pictures to NBC.
In other words, vlogging comes to mass murder, in ways no one anticipated (or no one I know)."
How could you not have seen this coming? Crazy people will do crazy things and they will want their 15 minutes and they will use all possible means to get it. As new forms of media come on stream so the crazy people will use them to get their "message" across.
"NBC should release all of the videos in Quicktime form as downloads."
Oh they soooo shouldn't. NBC are, rightly, starving this shooter of the oxygen of publicity, the last thing we want to see now is copy cat shooters motivated by the infamy surrounding the shooter in this case.
"They’re sifting through them and deciding what to release and what not to release."
As any responsible media publisher should do in times like this.
"GIven enough time the focus will go on their process, much better to just let it all out now, with no editorial judgement."
Focus will not go on NBC's process, as every right minded person understands what NBC is doing here, except Dave, it would appear