Bad idea: repackaging the ol’ “captured on home camera” clip shows as a new-fangled internet-social-media-thingy.

Amateur video will form the basis of the show’s segments, but ABC News correspondents will build news stories and features around video captured on cell phones or digicams and uploaded to a companion Web site.

Remember, blurry and shaky handheld footage is still boring after you watch that tornado caught on camera for the umpteenth time since the 80’s.

Good Idea: Turner seems to have a better idea of what to do with the web, put some good content online for everyone to watch. What a radical idea:

Turner Broadcasting System’s TNT and TBS plan to stream all seven of their combined original summer series on their respective Websites. For the most part, they will be available the morning after they premiere on TV.

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Cable networks typically have had a harder time than their broadcast counterparts in streaming shows online because they have to get both the rights from studios and the go-ahead from cable operators.

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“From the studio side, it’s becoming part of the package of rights you’re willing and able to buy,” says Turner Entertainment Networks President Steve Koonin. “We take the streaming piece very seriously, and when we’re looking to greenlight series, this is something we push with the studios.”

Sounds like Turner has ABC beat on how to take advantage of the net which is a bit of a role-reversal as the article points out about the rights situation. Maybe this is the start of a new trend, it was easy for the public networks to get out of the gate first but now the cable tortoises may beat out the broadcaster’s hares…