{"id":2186,"date":"2015-03-30T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:48:39","slug":"periscope-is-a-fascinating-game-changing-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/periscope-is-a-fascinating-game-changing-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Periscope is a fascinating, game-changing app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember exactly where I was &amp; what I was doing when I first saw NCSA Mosaic, Photoshop, Flash, Google, and YouTube. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/twitter\/11499794\/What-is-Twitters-new-Periscope-app.html\">Periscope<\/a>\u2014the live-streaming video app from Twitter\u2014just joined that rarefied list.<\/p>\n<p>After failing for weeks to \u201cget\u201d the similar <a href=\"http:\/\/meerkatapp.co\/\">Meerkat<\/a>, I tried Periscope this weekend &amp; was spellbound. In ~30 minutes of total usage, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learned that Scott Kelby was doing a street shoot in Amsterdam, sent him comments, and heard him reply<\/li>\n<li>learned that Scott\u2019s colleague RC Concepcion was doing a shoot in Florida &amp; interacted with him<\/li>\n<li>saw a former YouTuber broadcast from her balcony, said hi, and heard her reply<\/li>\n<li>learned that a comedian I follow on Twitter is near me, walking to Wrestlemania at Levi\u2019s Stadium<\/li>\n<li>watched a friend\u2019s kids play on the beach &amp; said hi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m fascinated by the storytelling potential here &amp; in tools like Snapchat Stories\u2014which are evidently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/business_insider\/2015\/02\/28\/snapchat_s_ambitious_plans_to_advertise_socialize_and_revolutionize_how.html\">mindblowingly popular<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like a fool, perhaps, I <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/check-out-adobe-premiere-clip\/\">poured myself<\/a> into trying to help normal people craft better stories (better-chosen shots, better-looking\/sounding content). But people don\u2019t do that: they want something \u201ceasier than iMovie,\u201d and instead of trying to make things \u201cbetter,\u201d you can instead <strong><em>make people not care<\/em><\/strong>. That is, you replace technical quality (lighting, sound, edits) with immediacy. If your creation is here today, <em>gone today<\/em>, <strong>no one will judge you<\/strong> on aesthetic merits.<\/p>\n<p>Getting all this right will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2015\/03\/meerkat_and_periscope_the_live_streaming_apps_aren_t_changing_the_news.html\">take time<\/a>, but it feels thrillingly fresh in ways I didn\u2019t\u2014and don\u2019t yet\u2014foresee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember exactly where I was &amp; what I was doing when I first saw NCSA Mosaic, Photoshop, Flash, Google, and YouTube. Periscope\u2014the live-streaming video app from Twitter\u2014just joined that rarefied list. After failing for weeks to \u201cget\u201d the similar Meerkat, I tried Periscope this weekend &amp; was spellbound. In ~30 minutes of total usage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}