I worked as a director on (don't shoot me) Big Brother TV show. We had numerous live feeds (40+) with capability of recording only two channels which consisted

I worked as a director on (don't shoot me) Big Brother TV show. We had numerous live feeds (40+) with capability of recording only two channels which consisted of two cameras each at the time. It was of premium importance to me, as a director, to choose which streams we would record. When I delegated to my switchers which cameras and persons should be on streams I would bounce myself between other "stories" developing in the house. How is this relevant to justin.tv? Live television/streaming would be impossible for me to do without a 'tool' I had, which was loggers. Loggers were basically two persons, one delegated to each stream that would vaguely transcribe what was happening on the stream via simple logging software. Logger would watch two cameras (master plan and close ups that were chosen by me and operated by switcher and remote camera operator, or cameraman behind mirrors) from the stream and listen to it and then would hit Alt-m in a textarea sort of control to enter current SMTP timestamp and start writing what was going on or transcribing a dialog. I think this kind of primitive, yet powerful feature for logging what is going on can be of use for justin.tv in more ways then one - lectures, spiders could crawl through text, one could skim through a transcription and have SMTP links into the prerecorded video. Of course, not every video will have willing logger to do so - but premium content would most probably have. Look at avid pirates transcribing subtitles for pirated movies and stuff. I can only imagine someone transcribing a webcast lecture, or a company sponsored live event being transcribed. just my 2c. edit: Now that I think about it - justin.tv could be ideal platform for casting. Private one to one sessions with casting apprentices or even director should not be a problem with remote cam, since casting is usually one person with lame camera and one person in front of that camera acting out directions from the person behind camera or making poses, headshots and stuff like that. You could have an option to make it somewhat open, so people can vote who they like most and stuff like that. This is more of a product idea than API/tool. I have much more, I'll stop now since this was not a question. But, you smart guys here - someone should build something like this on top of justin.tv (or them themselves) and offer someone like shots.net a percentage for marketing.