Such as a freeze grab from whatever video's being edited going to a front page JPEG every minute. Or your old fashioned webcam - just don't rely on the webcam as your main source of live info flow. And in terms of access, for every time someone watched one of our movies, probably a hundred people were reading text and gawking at pictures. I reckon we would have had an audience one hundred times smaller, and also much less diverse. I reckon having some way for people to chat on the website would have been great.
First priority is comments from the audience that go online immediately but stay forever.
And it would have been nice if our fancy automated publishing system didn't cark it during the night while we were sleeping off our exhaustion from webcasting all day, but I guess we were just victims off rushed programming and our own popularity. You see we had quite a fancy set of software and hardware going to make sure there was as little as possible standing between a hot story, in whatever analog or digital form, and the website. We nailed down the style a fair bit to do this, but it meant that on the day people could pretty concentrate on the stories we were telling. And in another key idea, we made it so that you could put up different format angles on the same story and they would go live on the web site as soon as they were enterted, and then later group related things together to condense the presentation. Don't get me wrong about the video, by the way.