Tag Archives: Jim Long

The future of live video fits in your pocket

Twitter-friend, NBC cameraman, new tech evangelist, and all around cool guy Jim Long is in Africa with POTUS and using his Nokia N95 phone/camera and service called Qik to live stream interviews with newsmakers, including this one with Sir Bob Geldof.

An awesome thing about Qik is that people watching live can comment and the person [...]

Twitter and NBC (and me)

Somehow I missed this till today (I know, I’m as shocked as you are!). Jim Long is a veteran camera operator for NBC News. On Sunday he twittered a bit while he was on the set of Meet the Press, recommending that we watch the show.
I’m not a big talking-head news show fan, but [...]