Filed under: Internet, Video, News, Web services
News buffs will want to bookmark MediaScrape.com, a Canadian site that aggregates video news reports from a host of international sources.
Feeds from AP, Reuters, BBC News, CBC Television (Canada), ANI (Asian News), and many others are available for viewing. Since MediaScrape is all about news for the visually inclined, there’s also a Google map view that geotags videos. Clicking a marker on the map pops up a thumbnail and link to the video.
Video transcripts are also available, a welcome feature for writers needing to reference a report. Registering gives users the ability to customize MediaScrape’s feeds to include only their preferred networks, regions, and topics.
One thing I found a bit bothersome was the proliferation of Adsense ads. Video pages display two text blocks, and the video itself gets an ad overlay - you can close it, but it’s an annoyance nonetheless.
Still, there’s a ton of great news content to view and most of you are probably running Firefox and adblock anyway. If not, sites like this might convince you to install it.
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