During her talk at NewsTrain Monroe, presenter Deb Wenger suggested we could get some use out of Periscope, a live-stream app that's related somehow to Twitter. So I downloaded Periscope, gave it permission to access my Twitter contacts (I unclicked all my contacts, just in case) and location services. Then I pushed a button and aimed my cell at Leigh, a cooperative woman seated next to me.
Darkness, darkness! And then in spidery gray letters, a demand to know what I was looking at.So I typed in "Monroe NewsTrain."
I decided not to hit "broadcast" quite yet. But the darkness eased a bit so I could see the unlikely to record well scene I was taping. After a while I got bored and hit stop.
It let me save whatever it had recorded in that dark conference room to "camera roll" — to my normal camera roll but also to an in-app camera roll.
Later I was able to edit the video, which involved rotating it to horizontal, even though I'd held the camera horizontal during my "broadcast." Here's a bit of that, saved as a very low res file so it won't take up too much space in this blog.
You aren't supposed to edit Periscope video. You're supposed to let it stream on out into the ... wherever. People following you might accept push notices on their phones so they'll be able to drop everything to gawk whenever you "go live."
In practice, receiving such notices is so obnoxious I doubt we'd use this except on unusual events and without publicity before: maybe for a massive crowd of unconsciously cosplaying tweens outside Verizon. Maybe we could interview strangers at a concert with it ... so long as we didn't record the music, even ambient music, because broadcasting stuff like that's probably copyright infringement.
The serious application would be reporting from the scene of a catastrophe or black Friday door rush. We could have Periscoped the Outlets opening.
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