Washington Post Reporters Use Comet to Stream Live Video from Mobile Phones

The Washington Post has begun streaming live video via mobile phones to the newspaper's site using Comet Technologies. The first implementation has come from Ed O'Keefe, reporting live from the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

For the past year, there has been quite a lot of experimentation with bloggers and mainstream media streaming live using smart phones. We've been following the use of Qik, Flixwagon and Kyte. This is the first time we've seen Comet.

I've embedded Ed O'Keefe's video above.

For an overview on the Washington Post's use of online video tools, check out this Q&A in Poynter with the washingtonpost.com's Jim Brady and Chet Rhodes. Chet says, "Mobile video reporting will be increasingly important to WashingtonPost.com over the next year."

-- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

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Hi,
I had heard the reporters use handheld Canon AS 570IS cameras, about 50 of which are deployed across the various desks. On a typical day, washingtonpost.com can get 3-5 videos, although sometimes there are none. Washingtonpost.com also has a department for documentary, enterprise-type video, with staffers using Sony HDDV professional equipment.

Posted by: buy dsi r4 | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 04:52 AM

Looks they mixed the mobile stream with another higher res camera. The audio is very good but the live video is too artifacted and choppy so I question whether the audio was streamed from the cell phone. Wonder why they picked Comet versus established and better technologies like Qik and Kyte.

The most interesting thing about this segment is the Washington Post streaming the SAME video as a typical broadcaster would have done. For instance, towards the end of the clip it sounds like Hillary asked for feedback on how she did.......THAT would have been the time to start streaming!!! Don't use New Media to show us the same thing every OLD media outlet is broadcasting.

Posted by: kyle parker | Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 08:32 AM