Seeing this image of Dan Gillmor using iSight and iChat together gave me an idea: Creating a web-only, real-time news broadcast, using something like iSight and iChat to create the generic “anchor desk shot”, complete with infographics! (For example: 1, 2, and 3) The idea is that a second person (the picture-in-picture) would be the “production” computer, which holds the video and photos, and runs the show, switching the focus from computer to computer. When the focus is on the anchor, the production computer shows an infographic, and then when the anchor is done talking, the focus switches to the production computer which then runs a video or displays a photo. This idea may be really raw, and possibly not workable with iSight and iChat specifically, but I think it could be interesting, in a amateur/guerilla/Dogma 95 news kind of way…

It may be possible with iSight and iChat, but it would be sloppy, since that’s not what those programs were made for. My initial instinct would be to point the camera at the production computer’s screen, which would mean you would have to have it done very tightly and exact, or have a program that would display the imagery fullscreen with no loss. This is also not really something I have experience in, and I also don’t own any of these technologies so that I could try out or test such a setup.