Boing Boing Bounces into the World of Vidcasts

Yesterday saw the launch of Boing Boing TV, a daily dosage of the quirky world of Boing Boing in five minute long video snippets. The free vidcast will feature stories from around the world, including viewer-generated content submitted via a yet-to-be-determined process.

Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder and Xeni Jardin co-host the first few weeks’ episodes, with other Boing Boing editors and “familiar characters” expected to make appearances later on. Boing Boing hopes to do more than just recycle material from their site, but to present stories that might be better told through video.

From Xeni’s inaugural announcement:

This is not the result of a business plan, or a corporate focus group. We promise no huffy manifestos about Taking Down The Networks with A New Television Paradigm, no breathless hyperbole about Reinventing Citizen Journalism With the Disintermediation of Long Tail Postmodernist Blogonomics — gah!We just want to have fun and explore interesting things with you. But, y’know, now with video, because video allows you to explore stuff that text, photos, and audio — all the things we’ve experimented with so far — do not.

You can check out Episode 1 here.

[via BoingBoing]