Washington Post Copies Rocketboom, Announces Video Mashup Contest
05
August
The Washington Post is inviting people to create video mashups featuring Post political reporter Dana Milbank. Anyone can download Milbank’s questions as an MPEG2 video clip, and then cut it up, mash it up, even slap it up, flip it, rub it down, as long as it meets their requirements (below).
Earlier in the year, Rocketboom, the popular video blog, asked readers to mashup video of former host Amanda Congdon. The site provided a dinner and a website kit that featured video of Congdon providing half of a conversation.
Requirements:
- Submissions must be in Quicktime (.mov) or Windows Media (.wmv) format and no more than three (3) minutes in length. You do not have to include all of the Dana Milbank clip we have provided, but your submission must include at least a part of it.
- Submissions will be disqualified if they violate copyright or are determined to be offensive, threatening, defamatory or libelous. You must have full rights to any material you include in your submission.
- Submitters must provide contact information (name plus e-mail or phone number). No e-mail addresses or phone numbers will be published.
Email finished mash-up clips to the post via their site.
The Post plans to will post all videos submitted that meet the requirements and will give viewers the opportunity to comment and rate the videos.
1. Micro Persuasion | August 5th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Washington Post Plays with Video Mash-ups…
The WashingtonPost.com has started a clever program that invites readers to mash themselves up into a video interview with political reporter Dana Milbank. Basically the video includes Millbank asking you a series of questions about your political camp…
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3. Boomerang » Blog Archive » Washington Post Video Mashup | January 29th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
[…] Blog Video Podcasting News reports that the Washington Post is inviting readers to mash themselves into a video with political reporter Dana Milbank. The site provides a series of clips of Milbank asking a series of questions. The idea is that creative readers videotape themselves answering the questions in creative ways, insert them into the spaces between questions, and create entertainment. This is an interesting move from the Post who, like other traditional media outlets, is looking for ways to attract an increasingly online audience to its content. […]