{"id":10931,"date":"2014-01-24T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2014-01-24T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:48:14","slug":"bbc-news-via-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/bbc-news-via-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News&#8230; via Instagram (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm\u2026 It&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether this catches on, but count me as skeptical for now. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/363260\/BBC-Introduces-Instafax-Short-Form-News-Stories-Via-Instagram\/\">DesignTaxi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/bbcnews\">Instafax<\/a>\u2019 which debuted on 16 January, condenses complex news stories into brief and easily understood summaries for readers on the go. It will also direct them to the full stories on the BBC\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I <em>could<\/em> watch news videos on Instagram, in the same way I <em>could<\/em> drive my car from the back seat\u2014if I really cared enough to do so. But apps are much like channels, and I flip over to the Instagram feed to get a peek into the lives of my friends &amp; people whose visual chops I enjoy. I don&#8217;t go there for pre-chewed nuggets about beheadings &amp; car bombs\u2014serious events which seem trivialized by the shrinking &amp; juxtaposition.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/06\/26\/with-echoes-of-summly-and-siri-wibbitz-relaunches-its-text-to-video-service-as-a-consumer-app\/\">Wibbitz<\/a>, an automated tool that turns traditional text-based news stories into videos, ostensibly to make them more consumable on mobile. I dunno; I can\u2019t remember browsing stories on my phone &amp; thinking, \u201cMan, if only these made noise, loaded slower, and burned more of my data plan&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm\u2026 It&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether this catches on, but count me as skeptical for now. Via DesignTaxi: \u2018Instafax\u2019 which debuted on 16 January, condenses complex news stories into brief and easily understood summaries for readers on the go. It will also direct them to the full stories on the BBC\u2019s website.\u00a0 Yes, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}