Comments on: U2’s Bono Sings the Battle Cry for Online News Journalism innovation, leadership, research and editorial product development Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:55:54 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bob Stepno http://www.ryanthornburg.org/2009/06/25/u2s-bono-sings-the-battle-cry-for-online-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1407 Bob Stepno Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:23:45 +0000 http://www.ryanthornburg.org/blog/?p=365#comment-1407 Excellent context and juxtaposition, Ryan. One other thing the Web can provide, of course, is historical depth to answer more of those "why" and "how" questions. Is that something news sites should leave to whichever readers are curious enough to leap to their search engines? Sometimes yes, sometimes no? Here are a few links: CNN Gulf War I: http://tinyurl.com/ldezhj U2's ZooTV in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5omeaIIcbc U2 ZooTV Transcript: http://homepage.mac.com/darekpro1/u2/Dublin_transcript.html I wonder how long those links will last. Ironically, CNN's links to its own .mov files of the 1991 videos are now "404." I'll ask a friend there for new links. Come to think of it, U2's fans DID "come all the way out here to watch TV" -- but to watch it in a new way, as those huge walls of video, as part of an immediate "now" experience including irony, artistry, politics, idealism and rock 'n' roll... which also supports your comments on choosing among multimedia/interactive Web tools, facing the "experience economy," and all. interactively yrs, Bob Excellent context and juxtaposition, Ryan. One other thing the Web can provide, of course, is historical depth to answer more of those “why” and “how” questions. Is that something news sites should leave to whichever readers are curious enough to leap to their search engines? Sometimes yes, sometimes no?

Here are a few links:

CNN Gulf War I: http://tinyurl.com/ldezhj
U2’s ZooTV in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5omeaIIcbc
U2 ZooTV Transcript:
http://homepage.mac.com/darekpro1/u2/Dublin_transcript.html

I wonder how long those links will last. Ironically, CNN’s links to its own .mov files of the 1991 videos are now “404.” I’ll ask a friend there for new links.

Come to think of it, U2’s fans DID “come all the way out here to watch TV” — but to watch it in a new way, as those huge walls of video, as part of an immediate “now” experience including irony, artistry, politics, idealism and rock ‘n’ roll… which also supports your comments on choosing among multimedia/interactive Web tools, facing the “experience economy,” and all.

interactively yrs,

Bob

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