Ever play Tetris, the 80s-era video game where you work to fit objects of different sizes into a rectangle?
Enter the Star Car, and all the equipment currently laying on the concrete in The Star parking lot.
The Ifra Newsplex at the University of South Carolina and Carter Chevrolet are sponsors for the vehicle. Carter Chevrolet brought the SUV yesterday. Today, Ifra experts are helping to fit all the equipment into the Star Car and wiring it for high-speed Internet.
But all good ideas start in a room, with a bunch of people sitting around talking. That's what we did this morning with Ifra Newsplex Director Randy Covington, Ifra Director of Publications Kerry J. Northrup and Ifra Newsplex Resource Coordinator Jordan Ellis.
Randy, Kerry and Jordan spent about 30 minutes asking what all we wanted to do with the vehicle. Do we want to be able to take a remote camera into meetings? Do we want remote access to a camera on the vehicle? Will we be covering more than breaking news...will there be promotional stops and coverage of conventional news using the Star Car?
Publisher Skip Foster's answer: Yes.
We want to do everything we can with this vehicle. If the Ifra people think we can do it, then let's do it!
Right now, there's about 10 people standing in The Star's parking lot, attempting to figure out where all the equipment will go.
What's the Ifra Newsplex? http://newsplex.sc.edu/ or http://www.newsplex.org/.
What is Ifra? www.ifra.com
What is Carter Chevrolet? http://www.carterchev.com/.
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