UGV - The problem with the phrase "User-Generated Content" is that it wraps together purely amateur video, your family ski videos, semi-pro, and the emerging new community of creators who are part of an new ecosystem of media makers. The idea that 'premium' content will come from the current sources of video just doesn't reflect the changing impact of both bandwidth and... (07/11/07)

Jet Blew. - When you travel often, you get used to certain routines. Jet Blue, has created an 'experience' that has been on the whole pleasant, consistent, and good humored. When they weren't able to get you somewhere, they would explain why - and help you sort it out. It appears that party is over. Now, for the first time, Jet Blue left... (07/11/07)

Larry Lessig says we're raising generation of copyright criminals - It had been a while since I’d talked to Larry Lessig, or heard him talk about Creative Commons. I’ve always embraced his vision, but it’s been hard to get people to understand that re-thinking copyright is a critical element of the evolution of content on the web. But at this year’s TED conference, Lessig presented an 18 min talk that... (03/11/07)

Why was Jeff Han the coolest guy at TED. - At TED there are thinkers and there are doers. People stand on stage and talk about concepts, ideas, theories, and ideas. Then in the gallery area, there are products – mostly companies, that present ideas that have evolved into things that are manufactured. The space between, from idea to execution – isn’t something that is often visible. In the middle... (03/11/07)

Dolby Rocks TED - - Hanging out with Thomas Dolby at the TED party last night, we ended up talking about Larry Lessig. Thomas had said at TED global in Oxford that he didn’t want his music given away freely on the web, sparking a discussion about how artists feel about distribution. And as we explored the need to balance the freedom of the web... (03/11/07)

Bill Stone - Rocket Man (TED 2007) - Eighteen minutes can seem like an eternity on the TED stage, or it can go by in a flash. But every now and then, someone will speak with such passion, conviction, and vision that you just know you’re hearing the worlds of a world changing individual. That was my reaction to listening to Bill Stone. Stone is an explorer. You... (03/11/07)

TED 2007 Begins - This morning's TED University was 6 rapid fire (15min) mini-courses that were a wild mix of theory, exploration, and mini-adventures. David Rose gave a great talk about how to raise money from VC's, There was a talk about how to be lucky - a talk about flying model helicopters, and a mini-session on YouTube and how to video blog. And... (03/07/07)

Skirmishes on the Web 2.0 Media Battlefield - Skirmishes on the web 2.0 Media Battlefield. Media enterprises large and small are struggling to sort out how the future will look. The overarching question, what role will existing media companies have when the transformation to web 2.0 is complete. It's far to early to make anything other than wild guesses, but a handful of things happened in the past... (02/26/07)

Gore Wins an Oscar! - I remember seeing the The Day After Tomorrow and thinking it was an environmental scare tactic. Horrible storms, dramatic climate change, and hail the size of cinder blocks. Nonsense. Sure, i knew that Global Warming was a serious problem, but that movie seemed to me to be an exaggeration. Or so I thought. But now, i can't help but notice... (02/26/07)

Gov. Spitzer Makes the Web Waves, But Will the Empire State Truly Embrace Openness? - If you were the Governor of New York, and you'd just been sworn into office, what would your first act be? Well - for Elliot Spitzer, the decision he made should prove to be both a clue about the kind of Governor he'll be and what the future of politics may hold. I'm talking about Executive Order #3. Executive Order... (02/10/07)

WeMedia. Thoughts and Pix - WeMedia. Thoughts and Pix February 10, 2007 Since my last visit with the WeMedia team, things are different. In an important way. It's changed. the WE in WeMEDIA got bigger, the 'MEDIA', got smaller. Or more intimate, more more focused. Not sure which. Photo: WeMedia founders Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison. (by JD Lasica) Maybe the best person I... (02/10/07)

Blogging WeMedia, Miami (part 1) - February 08, 2007 At the WeMedia Conference in Washington in 2005 - i spoke in detail about the vision of what was the basis of Magnify.net. In preparing to go to Miami, i re-readwhat i said. Here's the synopsis from the WeMedia website: "Steven Rosenbaum, managing partner of Magnify Media told attendees of The Media Center's Cross-Platform media teams event... (02/08/07)

Blogging WeMedia, Miami (part 2) - February 08, 2007 We're in the afternoon session - Alan Weber is moderating a panel on how the business side is evolving. It's a neat group - Jeff Clavier, SoftTechVC / Jeff Taylor, Monster and Eons, Fernando Esplueas, VOY / Chris Ahearn, Reuters / Brian O’Malley, Battery Ventures The question was just posed by Reuters - "Will there be a... (02/08/07)

Biden's Loose Lips, Part 3 - Joe Biden. The dust up over the past few days sent me back to the outtakes from "Inside The Bubble", about the 2004 election, to see if my memory served me correctly. Standing among a scrum of reporters, Biden has a telling interaction with ABC's Dan Harris about listening to your own voice and not being micromanaged by the consultants.... (02/04/07)

Demo diary, Day 5 - February 03, 2007 So, we've survived. The booth team is exhausted, the pile of cards is huge. The buzz is great. And we're ready to be back home. Ok, so for those of you who don' t know how valuable VC's can be - here's the best example yet of what a VC can do... Here's David Baum of Stage... (02/03/07)

Next Stop - "WeMedia" - February 03, 2007 Long before the buzz was all over blogs and the net, my pals Andrew and Dale have been pushing the envelope in participatory media. Now they've created a new organization - ifocos, and they're continuing thier tradition of convening a remarkable group of people to talk about the evolution of media. This week's conference at the University... (02/03/07)

DEMO diary, Day 4 - February 01, 2007 So, it's 'D' day (demo day). And we're all ready to go. The day started at 7:30am, with an hour of continental breakfast - which was a great way to meet folks, get comfortable with other demo folks, and drink coffee (lots). WATCH THE VIDEO Then, at 8:30 the day begins and the general session is... (02/01/07)

DEMO, day three - DEMO, day three January 30, 2007 So, we've arrived at DEMO launch day. Today the first press is starting to make its way out, in tiny bits, and the Wall Street Journal had a piece this morning focusing on Mobile Tech. We hadn't planned for a group breakfast, but by 8:30am we were all downstairs and sitting and talking... (01/30/07)

DEMO, day two. - January 29, 2007 This thing is like a well oiled machine. There is a rhythm, and its really clear that arriving prepared is critical. Beth had us at a team breakfast at 9am, which was leisurely -- except for the fact that we've all be up for hours reading blogs, and all we can talk about is how great the... (01/29/07)

DEMO DIARY - Day 1. - January 28, 2007 DEMO DIARY - Day 1. It's 39 Degrees in New York. Clear and Cold. And even though I know i'm not going on vacation - packing chino's and short sleeve shirts seems kind of wrong. I keep telling myself that - wardrobe not withstanding - this is going to be one of the most demanding weeks i've... (01/28/07)

Happy Birthday! Google Video Is One Year Old! - The 12 months that changed media. In January of 2006, I was at conference in Las Vegas called NATPE. There, Google had set up a booth and was beginning to talk about digitizing video for a new product called Google Video. You could feel the excitement around the idea of moving video to the web. It was early days, but... (01/27/07)

Video Showdown: Obama vs. Hillary - The 2008 primaries have already begun - online. Barack Obama was first out of the gate, announcing his candidacy in a video placed on the web. Hillary Clinton responded with her own video yesterday. Andy Plesser handicaps the technology behind the two videos, and gives Obama winning marks for allowing his video to be shared, linked, and cross posted. I'd... (01/21/07)

Natpe, Cable, and the Web - Near the end of an article in this weeks Broadcasting And Cable - Oxygen's Debbie Beece said: "Don't assume think that will tip the balance of power in advertisers' favor." "Maybe we should reject commercials," she said. "Say, 'if you're not going to be able to keep our ratings, then we reject you.'" Replied A&E's DeBitetto: "We can't afford... (01/19/07)

Fox's "24" in DVD Henhouse - Is Fox's "24" a clue about the future of the DVD/TV equation? Did you watch the premier of "24" last week? The question is - did you watch the whole thing? Probably not. Because Fox pumped out four episodes (Four Hours!) of the premier on Sunday and Monday nights back to back. And the odds are that even the most... (01/19/07)

Video is Frozen Knowledge - And here at Magnify.net, our goal is to bring order to a zillion little idea-cubes. Find, Organize. Thaw. (ok, maybe i take the analogy a bit too far, but I liking the core idea). Video on the web is either one of two things: a. A parlor trick - like CB Radio or the pet rock. or b. The first... (01/18/07)

Could you be a Network President? - Originally blogged on iMedia connection When I say the phrase 'network president,' what comes to mind? Think quickly. Is it Jeff Zucker, or Les Moonves or Bob Iger? Sure, you get points for those answers. But what about DC Smitty? Or Jessica Wells? Or Sean Knight? Ah, got you there, didn't I? DC Smitty runs YouSurfTubes.com. Jessica is the proud... (01/16/07)

We Media Film Festival to Honor “My Community” - ifocos.org today announced a call for entries and viewer-judges to the 2007 We Media Film Festival. The user-generated online film festival, launched in conjunction with the We Media Miami conference to be held Feb. 7-9, is organized in cooperation with the University of Miami School of Communication and Magnify.net, an online resource for community-powered video. Video creators can upload or... (01/13/07)

APPLE TV TOMORROW - On January 9th, just as the Consumer Electronics Show is revving up its annual bacchanal of electronic goodies - Steve Jobs will stride on to the stage at Mac World in San Fransisco and officially release Apple's iTV device. The name is unknown, but in rare Apple form, the device itself has already been revealed. The devise is significant, perhaps... (01/08/07)

Fight the Urge to Surge - Democrats, Media, and Americans - ignore the "Surge" at our peril. Ok. I'm fed up. First of all, I voted. A bunch of us did. We told the Democrats in a clear voice... get us out of Iraq. Then there was the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group report. Pretty clear what their message was. And then there were all the Generals... (01/07/07)

Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service - December 4, 2006 Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service By SAUL HANSELL Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public. Starting tomorrow, the photos and... (12/04/06)

YouTube Grows Up -- But What Does It Mean? - Bob Garfield Explores the Implications of the Video-Sharing Revolution By Bob Garfield Published: December issue of Wired magazine http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/youtube.html Look, before you even get to the second paragraph, try this: Click and watch the YouTube.com "boom goes the dynamite" video below. Boom Goes the Dynamite Evolution of Dance Noah Takes a Photo of Himself Everyday for Six Years Numa... (11/26/06)

Michael Moore and Borat. - Has anyone tried to figure out where the line is between comedy and social documentary these days? Watching Borat the other day, I couldn't help but think that his silly chaplinesque character was luring average folks into situations were they were exposing horrible truths. If Sacha Baron Cohen wasn't Jewish himself, the anti-Semitic material in Borat would have been the... (11/21/06)

Journeys With George - Part Two. - This won't be the first time that George Bush will have an up-close and personal relationship with one of the Pelosi clan. It was the 2000 election that first exposed George Bush to the charm and skills of a woman named Pelosi - but it wasn't Nancy. Political groupies should remember that there is a remarkable documentary called "Journeys with... (11/11/06)

Journeys With George - Part Two. - This won't be the first time that George Bush will have an up-close and personal relationship with one of the Pelosi clan. It was the 2000 election that first exposed George Bush to the charm and skills of a woman named Pelosi - but it wasn't Nancy. Political groupies should remember that there is a remarkable documentary called "Journeys with... (11/03/06)

Oops... Gas Profits Did it Again - Bad timing that Exxon quarterly profit announcement. Just 11 days before the elections. Exxon PR left a reporter from ABC standing outside their Houston headquarters to call in for a phone interview. There response to the massive profits was a mix of embarrassment and confusion. And the media plays along. Why are gas prices going down these past few weeks?... (10/30/06)

Obama - Barack Obama 2004 Democratic National Convention Part 1 Posted to Obama08 on October 23, 2006 View Details... (10/27/06)

My Barack Obama Moment - In 2004 - standing on the floor of the Fleet Center in Boston... I was exhausted. After working for weeks straight without a break... I was directing 5 camera crews at the Democratic National Convention. The film was called "Inside The Bubble", and we'd been exactly there, inside the Kerry Campaign. On the planes, buses, and in the hotels with... (10/24/06)

My Barack Obama Moment - In 2004 - standing on the floor of the Fleet Center in Boston... I was exhausted. After working for weeks straight without a break... I was directing 5 camera crews at the Democratic National Convention. The film was called "Inside The Bubble", and we'd been exactly there, inside the Kerry Campaign. On the planes, buses, and in the hotels with... (10/24/06)

Chris Anderson: The Economy of Abundance - By David Hornik on October 22, 2006 11:52 PM / http://ventureblog.com/ Chris Anderson Strikes Again: The Economy of Abundance By David Hornik on October 22, 2006 11:52 PM | Links In | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) | Categories: Conferences and Consumer Internet & Media and The Economy & Finance With great admiration, I have been watching Chris Anderson's book... (10/23/06)

Back in the USSR - In 1982 I was one of a handful of US students who traveled to the Soviet Union as part of an educational 'exchange'. I remember many things about the trip in the pre-glastnost Russia. First and foremost, I remember stepping off the bus from the airport and being stunned that there were people walking dogs in Moscow. Dogs! They had... (10/22/06)

NBC Cuts 700 - Apple's Profit's Surge. Coincidence or Paradigm Shift? - There is a shift - and it's not a little thing. Today Apple, the little engine that could announced extraordinary sales numbers. At the same time NBC announced wide ranging cuts in it's prime time and news operations. And the Wall Street Journal reviewed IE7 and proclaimed it - a copy cat of FireFox. The shift that that's going on... (10/20/06)

Mikhail Gorbachev - live and in person. - Mikhail Gorbachev - live and in person. Pat Mitchell - the former President of PBS - is now the President of the Museum of Radio and Television and Radio. But long before she was the head of documentary at CNN, Mitchell was an interviewer. And she hasn't lost her touch. So when Mitchell is able to sit on the stage... (10/16/06)

What's Wrong with the Democrats? - "So Goes The Nation" That's the title of a new film that opens this weekend, and is supposed to give viewers insight into the pitch battle the Democrats waged in Ohio in 2004. The film is made by Democrats, and the goal is pretty straight forward. "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" (for accuracy: What George... (10/16/06)

Annie Leibovitz at Museum of Radio and TV - It's docu week at the Museum of Radio and TV in New York, and that means premiers panels, and some extraordinary talks. PBS's American Masters gave audiences an advance look at the upcoming Annie Leibovitz profile. While the rough cut was perhaps a bit rougher than either the subject or the filmmakers would have liked - the entire experience was... (10/15/06)

Why All the Media Has it All Wrong about Google/YouTube - You know that old saying - if you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail? Well, it's true. And if you're big media - than all stories about media are about 'bigness' or about wanting to achieve bigness, or about consolidation to achieve bigness. The only problem is - no one is asking the customers if the relative size of... (10/12/06)

Why All the Media Has it All Wrong about Google/YouTube - You know that old saying - if you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail? Well, it's true. And if you're big media - than all stories about media are about 'bigness' or about wanting to achieve bigness, or about consolidation to achieve bigness. The only problem is - no one is asking the customers if the relative size of... (10/12/06)

Political Satire and the Web - From The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/political-satire-and-the-_b_31345.html Google acquires YouTube, let the games begin! Have heard the one about Mark Foley and the congressional pages? Ok, truth is - there's more than one. There are tons of satire videos... and they're all on the web. Thanks to the proliferation of high quality video camera and web access, there's growing community of political... (10/11/06)

Google acquires YouTube, let the games begin! - Google acquires YouTube, let the games begin! Have heard the one about Mark Foley and the congressional pages? Ok, truth is - there's more than one. There are tons of satire videos... and they're all on the web. Thanks to the proliferation of high quality video camera and web access, there's growing community of political satirists that ply their trade... (10/09/06)

Google acquires YouTube, let the games begin! - Have heard the one about Mark Foley and the congressional pages? Ok, truth is - there's more than one. There are tons of satire videos... and they're all on the web. Thanks to the proliferation of high quality video camera and web access, there's growing community of political satirists that ply their trade entirely on the web. I can't say... (10/09/06)

Why GooTube is a good thing... - If it happens - - - and there are lots of indicators that say it will - the acquisition of YouTube by Google should be a good thing. YouTube did a terrific job of connecting its platform to creators. Despite the cries that YouTube is fueled by copyright violators, the fact is that the top 20 videos are almost always... (10/09/06)

Must Watch - - Who says YouTube isn't about empowering creative expression?... (10/05/06)

So Goes the Nation - Films increasingly have different roles in the world. There are some films that are pure entertainment. There are some that have a political mission or agenda. And then there are some that are surprisingly pure of heart. Adam Del Deo's "So Goes the Nation" could have taken the easy way out. There is such anger at the outcome of the... (10/03/06)

Wired Nextfest - The thing about an event that bills itself as a look into the future is that people come prepared to be wowed. So, when Murray - my eight year old - and I trucked to the Javits Center at 8:30 on a Sunday Morning, we had pretty high expectations. The Wired Magazine Nextfest didn't disappoint. In fact - there were... (10/01/06)

How 'Free" is Free Speech? - I admit it, when Katie Couric signed on to anchor the CBS Evening News, i tuned in. And while i can quibble about this or that (sitting cross-legged on the side of the desk - pleeaaase) overall i thought she did a good job. But that was before what is rapidly becoming the Free Speech Debacle. Naming a TV Segment... (09/30/06)

YaCurrent TV? - Yahoo's New Current Channels. Well - it arrived. (and sooner than i thought it would). While the YouTube traffic numbers keep growing... the media din around the arrival of web video has more more people turning from their TV's to the web for short form programming. And so today we're seeing the first step to filtered, communities of user-generated videos.... (09/20/06)

Starr power - Steven Starr isn't your average internet CEO. After all, how often can you hear a guy talk about Advertising, how much he Loves Creative Commons, and the fact that DRM is the Devil, all in the course of 40 minutes? As i said, not average. Far from it. In fact Revver is more than a technology company or neat trick... (09/20/06)

Jeff Jarvis on NBBC - ouch (!) - What i like best about post is that Jeff is willing to say what lots of people were thinking... is this really an innovation or just 'me too' network johny-come-lately play... you decide... -- NBC thinks it is entering the distributed world of media with its new National Broadband Company — but is riddled with cluelessness. The venture, first announced... (09/13/06)

Broadcasting rocked as TV viewers become producers - By Lucas van Grinsven, European Technology Correspondent AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An increasing number of television viewers are producing their own shows, and the TV industry is frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts, Internet movies and home videos into one package. Internet video sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video have surged in popularity over the last 12... (09/12/06)

What day is today? - 9.11.06 - The fifth anniversary of a terrible attack on America. 9.11.06 - The first day of third grade for my son. His first day wearing a tie to school. 9.11.06 - The day before the New York Democratic Primary. 9.11.06 - The Day before Apple's big "It's Showtime" announcement. 9.11.06 - 8 Weeks before the mid term elections? 9.11.06... (09/11/06)

Overcome (2001) - "Overcome" Tribute to 9/11 Posted to DocuBlogTV on September 11, 2006 View Details | Hosted At YouTube... (09/11/06)

9/11 from Google Video Blog - Monday, September 11, 2006 Highlight: 7 Days in September "7 Days in September" From Google Video Blog: Posted by Steve Rosenbaum, Director "Five years ago, I found myself watching a heartbreaking disaster from my office window that seemed like the world was coming to an end: The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center as they burned and crumbled. Out... (09/11/06)

The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation - Last night, Pam and I went to see a preview of the Photo Exhibit presented by the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. It was far more than i expected. First, the exhibit is being held on the 45th Floor of the new Silverstein building "7 World Trade". The floor is empty- raw space. And the windows look out on the... (09/08/06)

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9/11. Pull vs. Push, and Google. - Hollywood, TV, even music and books are driven by 'push' marketing. Right now, everyone is pushing 9/11 on me and I don't like it. I don't like feeling like the complicated emotions and issues around 9/11 have been turned into a 'to do' list by networks, newspapers, and magazines. And I don't like feeling like the bizar tango between September... (09/08/06)

Have you watched Keith Olbermann? - If you haven't watched MSNBC recently - you may not have seen Keith Olberman. And in the hour long form i sometimes find him insuferable... but if you look at his crisp commentary - as it is being excerpted and shared across the web... you'll see a body of work that is taking this Administration to task with a determination... (09/02/06)

Cablevision - I've just spent 3 weeks on the East End of Long Island, where cablevision has the franchise. The house had their high-speed internet... and it was out twice - both times for the better part of a day. When we called Cablevision they seemed concerned, but not in any urgent sort of way. Pleasant, and the scheduled appointments both times... (09/02/06)

MTV Video Music Awards - So here's the thing. I watched the VMA's on Thursday. They were ok... some of the star parings were funny... and the music and the staging was - as always - a big spectacle. I was struck by a few things. First, i watched - my 16 year old son didn't. Hmmm. Second, on air there was an endless push... (09/02/06)

MTV Awards Suffer Big Hit in Ratings - MTV Awards Suffer Big Hit in Ratings By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/1/2006 7:26:00 PM The downward spiral of the MTV Video Music Awards' TV performance continued Thursday night as the ceremony's audience plunged from last year and VMA fans headed online. The show, once a ratings juggernaut for MTV, pulled in an average of just 5.77 million... (09/02/06)

YouTube Stats - - Lee Gomes in the Wall Street Journal has a great look under the hood at YouTube. But i wonder if all his data warrents his conclusions. The data itself is pretty remarkable. The piece begins with the fact that Lee has 'scraped' YouTube to get data. Wow, a reporter doing real reporting in the tech space, how cool is that!... (09/01/06)

Blast from the past! - Two weeks ago, we presented Magnify at Digital Hollywood. We met a bunch of great new people - and had one major surpise. As i walked off the stage I was met by a familier voice who said- "I just want to introduce myself." When you spend your life in film you often recognise people who don't know you (they... (08/27/06)

YouTube Politics - - My son Max has been working on a documenty about issues around being homeless in New York. When Mayor Bloomberg announced a major new plan to clear out homeless 'encampments' - Max wondered if anyone would be allowed to document the changes. He reached out the Mayor - but never got a response... so he recorded and posted this on... (08/26/06)

MySpace by the Side of the Road - She was standing by the side of the road. We’d just picked up our younger son from his first summer at sleep away camp. It was a semi-rural stretch of road dotted with summer homes and tattered month-to-month rentals. There she was. Too close to traffic. Too small to be near a highway. Too alone. Like the deer you see... (08/20/06)

VOA on Archive - http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-17-voa48.cfm Home Sought for Largest Collection of 9/11 Images By Kane Farabaugh New York, NY 17 August 2006 watch Sept 11 Archive report / Real broadband - download video clip watch Sept 11 Archive report / Real broadband video clip watch Sept 11 Archive report / Real dialup - download video clip watch Sept 11 Archive report / Real dialup... (08/20/06)

Nice write up from WorldTech Logic - LINK to full article Magnify: Create Your Own Video Website Posted in Web 2.0, Ajax by brett on the August 17th, 2006 Nowadays, video is rapidly proving to be the latest and hottest dimension to the User-Generated Content. Nevertheless, anyone who has tried to FIND a video today has encountered disappointing lists of poor quality. The good stuff is... (08/20/06)

Om Malik Notes... - "Google has an opportunity to push YouTube hard on video, and it seems to be finally flexing its power. When Google put video on its homepage last week, Hitwise recorded a single-day doubling in traffic to Google Video." hmm.. doubling is worth paying attention to. http://software.gigaom.com/2006/08/16/youtube-hunting-music-videos/... (08/19/06)

Startups Given The Floor At Digital Hollywood - Startups Given The Floor At Digital Hollywood Neil Kjeldsen I was Digital Hollywood today rubbing elbows with content creators and distributors in San Jose. On the agenda were several entrepreneurial forums where local startups pitched their companies to an audience of competitors, peers and venture capitalists. Given the words “Digital” and “Hollywood” can cover a lot of ground all of... (08/18/06)

Revver's new plans - Video advertising revs up by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Oliver Luckett, a Revver co-founder and senior-vice president of network development, said his company plans to open up its APIs, which connect video owners with advertising. Speaking at the Building Blocks conference. "We plan to completely open up our system. For the last nine months we have been working secret... (08/18/06)

Video at Digital Hollywood - Google, Yahoo, the world and video by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Peter Chane, senior product manager for Google Video, articulated Google's goal in the video space at the Building Block conference in San Jose today. Google will become the "one site with all videos in the world and deliver an experience that works," Chane said. "In less than a... (08/18/06)

Gore's TV idea seems more Current - Gore's TV idea seems more Current Viewer-sent content ridiculed a year ago Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, August 14, 2006 Television insiders and pundits mocked Al Gore and Joel Hyatt a year ago when the pair introduced Current TV, their San Francisco-based cable and satellite channel. Even after critics saw that the ex-vice president and Democratic Party fundraiser weren't... (08/15/06)

Is Hollywood Afraid of YouTube? - Interesting panel discussion - Is Hollywood Afraid Of The Future? (3:54) Posted to DocuBlogTV on August 15, 2006 View Details | Hosted At Blip... (08/15/06)

Update on Google Keywords - Well, it appears that Google has changed it's mind and agreed to run the my keyword ads. That said, it appears that Google hasn't read The Clue Train Manefsesto. Rather than have a real person contact me, and actually explain what happened, instead we get a form letter from "lizzie" without a contact email address or phone number. Here's the... (08/13/06)

The Long Tail... - This is a great video - Official Long Tail Book Promo www.longtailbook.co.uk Posted to DocuBlogTV by steve on August 11, 2006 View Details | Hosted At YouTube... (08/13/06)

The Upside to Video Uploads - William Murray has a very astute take in this weeks Business Week, astute - and rare. Why? Because most pundits and publishers want to believe that the explosion in User-Generated Content sharing is primarily the swapping of commercial content. But spend any amount of time on YouTube and you'll know that that isn't the case. User Content is of course... (08/08/06)

Disapproved Keywords - arab israeli war Disapproved Disapproved beirut Disapproved future lebanon tv Disapproved haifa lebanese singer Disapproved hamas Disapproved hamas and israel Disapproved... (08/08/06)

Google Erases Israel/Lebanon Ads - but why? - Google removed my entire AdWords campaign yesturday. Not a single ad. Everyone of them. I'm not sure why - and i think the decision is deeply troubling. Google seems to think so too, because they sent me a rather long explanation about free speech and search and such. I'll tell you the story of what happened, and you decided if... (08/08/06)

Sweet Dreams... - My little boy slept in this morning. Camp is over, and he doesn't have plans to late morning. When i when in to wake him he was sleeping soundly. Dreaming. Of what? Yu Gi Oh? Cartoons? Adventures? His friends. Something appropriate for an eight year old with an active imagination. Then i thought about last night. We were sitting in... (08/08/06)

J School Dean takes on Bloggers. Why? - Nick Leamon - the Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism - came out swinging with a barbed criticism of Bloggers in the New Yorker last week titled "Journalism without Journalists." While the article itself is worth a read, his core points were - - Bloggers Don't create much original content -They're not professionals - They're adding clutter and noise... (08/05/06)

The Audience is Up to Something - http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/07/the_audience_is.html FROM CHRIS ANDERSON: "For the past year or so, I've been ending many of my speeches with this brilliant video by Peter Hirshberg of Technorati, and Michel Markman. They showed it first at at the D conference last year and a few times since then, such as the EG conference earlier this year. Now Michel's uploaded it to YouTube... (08/04/06)

The emerging web-video ecosystem... - It's amazing to find friends who i've known in their former lives re-emerging as leaders in the nascent web-video world. I had lunch last week with Dina Kaplan, who i worked with back in the day at MTV UNfiltered. Dina was even then a passionate advocate for the voices of people with a story they wanted to tell. As we... (07/30/06)

Israel / Lebanon - Watch For Yourself I've been trying to figure out what the post is that I want to write. But i'm not sure my opinion matters. What is more interesting are the voices of real people who feel strongly enough to record and post their opinions on various sites across the web. So now you can watch for yourself and... (07/30/06)

Magnify Networks Offers Safe Haven - Nice piece from Jack Myers today on MAGNIFY - TODAY'S COMMENTARY by Jack Myers Tuesday, July 25th 2006 Magnify Networks Offers Safe Haven for Ad Placement in User Generated Content Peer Review Emerging as Essential for Online Video Economics By Jack Myers Magazines and cable networks want to better understand how to integrate video into their sites and make their... (07/25/06)

Cable bad news -good news... - On Friday nights my wife and I often consider renting a movie. Until recently that involved walking two blocks, grabbing a bag of popcorn from the free popper at Channel Video, and a pleasant 15 min wander through the isles. But that's over. Channel video is gone. Closed. And Hollywood Video is gone as well (two blocks further south). So... (07/22/06)

Media is shape-shifting - There's been plenty made of the emergence of YouTube in the past few months. And the fact is - it's absolutely worth paying attention to. But the fawning of various network execs over Chad Hurley has served to obscure an important and related fact. Network TV is dying. The Associated Press wondered if "TV Viewers have gone to the beach"... (07/22/06)

ABC to air 9/11 miniseries - http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=1&article=31163 ABC in the US is to air an "epic" miniseries focusing on the events leading up to 9/11 on the fifth anniversary of the attack. The Path to 9/11, directed by David Cunningham, is a six-hour dramatisation of the events detailed in the bipartisan 9/11 Commission report. Featuring a cast including Harvey Keitel, Shirley Douglas and Donnie Wahlberg, the... (07/06/06)

Building the WTC - See This Video If you doubt for a moment that the web will re-invent the way we tell stories... look at this video. Chances are you've seen it before, or some of it. But i can't believe that you won't find it hypnotic in any event. These pictures are on the web. As they should be. And I for... (07/02/06)

Is YouTube a flash in the pan? - Is YouTube a flash in the pan? By Greg Sandoval Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: June 29, 2006, 5:56 PM PDT TalkBackE-mailPrint As video-sharing site YouTube rides an enormous wave of popularity, a research firm has expressed doubts about the company's business prospects. Josh Martin, an IDC research analyst, issued a report Thursday asserting that YouTube will struggle to squeeze... (06/30/06)

Who Killed The Electric Car? - Just back from seeing - "Who Killed The Electric Car? " Where to begin... first of all - if you have to decide between "Inconvenient Truth" and "Electric Car" , Gore wins hands down. It's a better movie. More carefully crafted. And more compelling. "Electric Car" is a great story - but it's not well told, and in fact the... (06/28/06)

Surprise--Nielsen to Track Cross-Platform TV Programming! - Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Surprise--Nielsen to Track Cross-Platform TV Programming! By Cory Treffiletti Do you read a lot about our industry? If you read this column, I assume you must read a bunch, because I'm not nearly arrogant enough to assume I'm the first thing you read each Wednesday. Assuming you read as much as I do, then you might... (06/28/06)

NBC Ends Feud, Partners With YouTube To Create 'NBC Channel' - NBC Ends Feud, Partners With YouTube To Create 'NBC Channel' by Erik Sass, Wednesday, Jun 28, 2006 6:00 AM ET (mediapost) SIX MONTHS AGO, NBC ALL but declared war on YouTube, forcing the popular video-sharing site under threat of a lawsuit to remove a "Saturday Night Live" skit that a user had uploaded. But Tuesday, NBC publicly reversed course with... (06/28/06)

- From Bambi Fransisco - (http://bambi.blogs.com) One-off moments in time Compared with whimsical one-off moments in time captured on video, big media productions just don't seem to matter online. Take a quick scan at the top 100 most popular clips viewed on Google Video, and you'll note that a large majority are far from professionally produced. The No. 1 video, at... (06/24/06)

YouTube ‘bigger than MTV’ for advertisers - By Carlos Grande in Cannes Published: June 22 2006 12:58 | Last updated: June 22 2006 16:49 One of the world’s biggest advertising agencies has urged marketers to learn from consumer-created content on websites such as YouTube.com, which now has greater reach among some US audiences than MTV, the music broadcaster. ADVERTISEMENT The Leo Burnett agency, whose clients include McDonald’s,... (06/24/06)

Today's WTC News - SEE Video I was at the WTC site today - for hours. I stood by the fence. Watched the tourist groups with matching shirts file by. Listened to the sidewalk preacher scream till her throat was raw. Watched the man with the Santa Clause beard play the fluet. It was a remarkable show. Crazy, Emotional, Confused, seeking answers without... (06/20/06)

Great Times piece today: - Todays Times hits the ball out of the park - and even quotes Michael Moore criticizing the Time. Worth a read. Cascading Inconvenient Truths June 19, 2006 BY David Carr THERE have been all sorts of pronouncements in the past week about the ambitions and absurdities of the Iraq war, but nothing in newspapers, on cable or even out there... (06/19/06)

New documentary “Wet Dreams” - www.efilmcritic.com/ Rebecca Romijn steps out of the blue and into the Bellagio to choreograph one of their famous water fountain routines in the new documentary “Wet Dreams.” The good news–an offer to interview Rebecca Romijn, the gorgeous swimsuit model-turned-actress whose credits have included “Femme Fatale” (the Brian De Palma masterpiece that is, in the humble opinion of yours truly, perhaps... (06/16/06)

- There's a graphic novel online at Smith Magazine that is so gripping it's not to be missed. “SHOOTING WAR is a commentary about where we’re headed in Iraq and the larger war on terror as well as the role of bloggers in telling the stories of the future,” says Anthony Lappé, the novel's writer. Lappe is a pretty remarkable and... (06/14/06)

MTV and the tiny screen... - When the New York Times focused on MTV, they launched me into a crazy career flashback. The article begins: "One morning earlier this spring, Dave Sirulnick and a group of fellow MTV executives gathered in a 29th-floor conference room overlooking Times Square to observe a time-honored television ritual, one they'd performed dozens of times." I've been in that room. I've... (06/03/06)

NY Times TV Experience... - When the New York Times came out on Tuesday - the size and scope of the article was a bit of a surprise. But the quality of the reporting and the concern for detail was to be expected, after all it was The New York Times. What was interesting, and worth retelling - was the Times video shoot. At... (06/03/06)

The 500 Hours of 9/11 - May 30, 2006 The 500 Hours of 9/11 By GLENN COLLINS A brown fedora rests abandoned in ground zero dust: owner's fate, unknown. In images shot from space, a plume of smoke rises miles above the World Trade Center. Two workers cling to a scaffold that dangles from an office building beneath the inferno. A handheld video camera, pointing at... (06/03/06)

Mediums new and old vying for TV ad dollars - May 16, 2006 Mediums new and old vying for TV ad dollars By Diane Mermigas CHICAGO -- The recent Wall Street rebound of many media and entertainment company stocks might have as much to do with their first bold but uncertain steps through the new-media landscape as with their improving quarterly financial results. Maybe. It is fair to ask whether... (05/17/06)

when stuff just works... - the thing about innovation is that once it exists, you can't realy ever imagine life without. Life before cell phones? Life before atm's? The whole new web evolution (web 2.0, ajax, etc) is like that. Every day i'm seeing apps that blow me away - and then become almost immediately essential. Take Google Calendar. Built in sms alters, built in... (04/15/06)

Yochai Benkler from unmediated - April 13, 2006 "The Wealth of Networks" Booklaunch with Yochai Benkler @ Eyebeam, NYC (via Rhizome.org) "The Wealth of Networks" Booklaunch with Yochai Benkler Eyebeam April 14, 2006 - 6-8PM 540 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011 http://www.eyebeam.org Please join Yale Professor Yochai Benkler for the launch of his new book, "The Wealth of Networks," exploring how a new... (04/14/06)

Google in biz with Nike on Joga - Have you seen Joga? It's a community site for soccer players... which is in an of itself no big deal. http://www.joga.com But the partnership between Nike and Google that gave birth to Joga is interesting. First of all, this is to the best of my knowledge the first time that Google has taken the role of content creator (rather... (04/08/06)

Video editing, publishing and remixing online is now a reality. - Before I could even ponder or realize the amazing opportunities that these new video editing tools were going to unleash on us, I am already surrounded by a small set of great online video services that make the uploading, editing, remixing and sharing / re-publication of video clips just about pure fun. Video Editing, Publishing And Remixing Online Is Here... (04/06/06)

Maxtor teams up with Fabrik on personal server - Maxtor teams up with Fabrik on personal server (from engadget) Posted Apr 1st 2006 8:17PM by Ryan Block Filed under: Storage, Networking So Maxtor and Valley startup Fabrik are up to something together, which they're calling Project Fusion. It sounds very cloak and dagger and whatnot, but it's actually pretty transparent and literal: they're building a personal server (i.e. a... (04/01/06)

Google TV Coming Soon? - Google TV Coming Soon? Google TV Coming Soon? Today, there have been a couple of people bringing up the topic of Google hiring TV engineers. They both point to an article at The Radioactive Yak, which shows a "recent" job posting at Google for a "Product Manager - Interactive TV." Actually, I saw this job posting a few weeks ago,... (03/30/06)

UGC Newsweek Cover - The New Wisdom of the Web Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it's all about ... you. By Steven Levy and Brad Stone Newsweek April 3, 2006 issue - A little over two years ago, even the most sensitive... (03/29/06)

Microsoft enters UGC - - Get Ready For Your Close-Up - Forbes.com Digital Media Get Ready For Your Close-Up Rachel Rosmarin, 03.14.06, 3:35 PM ET Burlingame, Calif. - Microsoft can’t stop playing follow the leader. Now that it has ramped up its Windows Live product suite--a direct response to Google and Yahoo!'s popular Web-based software--the company can’t bear to leave any popular Internet category untouched,... (03/29/06)

Me Media: Amateurs Take Control of Online Entertainment - YouTube Shaking Up Traditional Business & Promo Models By Jerry Weinstein (from www.mediavillage.com) Esther Dyson's annual PC Forum conference is always a hot ticket. It's a Renaissance Weekend for the Technorati. Dyson's strength is keeping abreast of trends and sticking her neck out to pronounce what's next. It's no coincidence that the theme of this year's conference - which took... (03/24/06)

NY Times & Nich Content - All you have to do is read the last three days of the New York Times to get a sense of just how frothy (and complex) the future of media is. What Saul calls Slivercasting - todays paper calls nich. But will it be Sail.tv or backyard wrestling? Or both. Stay tuned. March 12, 2006 As Internet TV Aims at... (03/13/06)

- Google Does Word Processing Posted by Harry McCracken Friday, March 10, 2006, 09:04 AM (PST) For eons, there have been rumors a possibly browser-based Google office suite. Now there's an intriguing nugget of reality to ponder: Google has bought Writely, the impressive free browser-based collaborative word processor. What Google is going to do with Writely isn't entirely clear--it says there... (03/10/06)

Is real news funny? - (originally published in Morph Journalism. India. The Bomb. I watched the ABC Evening News last night. I watched John Stewart last night. One program is billed as journalism, the other as comedy. The contrast was stark, and left me wondering about how viewers would ever be able to sort out what is truely going on in the world. Stewart asked... (03/09/06)

AOL to sell shows online - AOL to sell shows online By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc.'s AOL plans to sell programing on its Web site by the middle of this year, a top executive said, as it hastens to secure a place in the market for video-on-demand over the Internet. The market for online media is booming after Apple Computer Inc.... (03/06/06)

TV fans get creative - Boob tube meets online maps as TV fans get creative | CNET News.com Ever wonder where the Soup Nazi is located in Seinfeld's New York City? How about the back road where Tony Soprano nearly whacks his drugged-out second cousin Christopher? To feed the growing hunger for more information about their favorite shows, fans are creating Web sites called mashups... (03/06/06)

Kqed and Citizen Media - Tue, Feb 28, 2006 Community-Generated Media Forum assesses community-generated media, sometimes called "citizen journalism." What is it, how is it evolving, and what does it mean for the "traditional" media? Host: Michael Krasny Guests: Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media, which is affiliated with graduate school of journalism at UC-Berkeley and the Berkman Center for Internet... (03/04/06)

Yahoo TV plans shift - Yahoo Says It Is Backing Away From TV-Style Web Shows - New York Times March 2, 2006 Yahoo Says It Is Backing Away From TV-Style Web Shows By SAUL HANSELL After proclaiming grand plans to bring elaborately produced sitcoms, talk shows and other television-style programs to the Internet, the head of Yahoo's Media Group said yesterday that he was sharply... (03/02/06)

Google eyes new ad venues: Old media - By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — Internet search giant Google (GOOG) ushered in the biggest revolution in advertising since the dawn of television when it popularized online ads that run near Web search results. For the first time, advertisers had to pay only if someone viewed an ad. Now, Google wants to bring its targeted-advertising system to old... (02/28/06)

News Corp. grabbing new media by horns - News Corp. grabbing new media by horns By Dianne Mermigas CHICAGO -- Just when you have mustered enough courage to look the new-media beast straight in the eyes, it starts growing two other heads. That's the way any person or company involved in media, entertainment and information has to be feeling these days as they wrestle with the new... (02/28/06)

Jason Calacanis on YouTube - YouTube is not a real business - The Jason Calacanis Weblog I know this a few days old, but there's been so much discussion about it, and i have just gotten caught up. This is one of those great 'jason' moments where he says something that people are saying, quietly - but he puts it in writing. The thing i'd... (02/27/06)

just asking... - has anyone but me noticed that Rita Cosby's show on MSNBC is named "Live and Direct"?... (02/27/06)

Google to put National Archives Films online - Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television Google To Put National Archives Films Online By Glen Dickson -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/24/2006 12:33:00 PM Google announced Friday that it is teaming with independent federal agency the National Archives to launch a pilot program that will make holdings of the National Archives, including digitized video of historic films, available for free... (02/27/06)

there are themes to TED. - And this year it feels to me that the Environmental issues the planet is facing are hard to ignore. Certainly Al Gore's talk was among the most powerful, disturbing, and relentless i've ever heard or seen. Gore seemed to set the goal of making sure that no one left the hall able to say that Global Warming isn't an immediate,... (02/24/06)

Citizen Storytellers - the future - - I've been part of this march toward citizen journalism for 10+ years... empowerment, tools, access, etc. But it's always made me a bit uneasy. Why? Because at some level citizen journalist is like amateur surgeon or volunteer astronaut or part-time President. Ok, bad example. But you get the idea. "Journalist" means a storyteller operating within a set of rules. AT... (02/24/06)

TEDward bound... - After the mind-bending experience we had at TED Oxford, i'm back. This time, to Monterey for the annual gathering of TEDsters. The list of speakers and presenters is amazing - (www.TED.com) - A wild mix with Burt Rutan, Tony Robbins, Al Gore, Peter Gabriel, Jahane Noujaim, Nicholas Negroponte and Thomas Dolby - and that's just a few.. i'll blog what... (02/20/06)

NBC to You Tube - Thanks, but no thanks - sandbox films: NBC sends YouTube Take-Down Notice for SNL Lazy Sunday YouTube received a take-down notice from NBC regarding the SNL Lazy Sunday video. That was sure a long time coming. Here's what YouTube says on their blog: NBC recently contacted YouTube and asked us to remove Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday: Chronicles of Narnia" video. We know how popular... (02/20/06)

Greenwald ads TV to his slate - Two New TV Series Are Liberal and Proud By FELICIA R. LEE The filmmaker Robert Greenwald and others on the political left say real-life stories dealing with issues like gay rights, racial profiling and environmental pollution are needed in an era of conservative political leadership. To that end, Mr. Greenwald has helped the Sierra Club and the American Civil Liberties... (02/18/06)

what does citizen journalism look like? - I've watched ton's of coverage of hurricane katrina... but somehow this is the most dramatic i've seen. hurricane katrina video from inside the Beau Rivage - Google Video... (02/17/06)

Grab Your Video Camera and Help Make History - (thanks to UNMEDIATED for this post) The thousands of camcorders owned by people across the state represent a huge untapped capacity to produce a unique public record of Pennsylvania’s democracy during what might be one of the most interesting political seasons in recent memory. If you own a miniDV or hi8 camcorder you can be a part of history... (02/13/06)

what viewer want... - There's this open question about real people and their interest in exploring content in a less filtered way. Mainstream media's pushback is always that the large majority of people want their media packaged, polished, and organized. Well - seven days ago we began a quiet experiment to test that, and see just want kind of different relationship we could have... (02/13/06)

NYC Snow - Video from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Narrated by Murray, age 8.... (02/12/06)

God Grew Tired of Us - In the normal course of events, having a film that you've invested in take home the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance should be cause for celebration. But it is now unclear where the funds CameraPlanet invested went. "To be very clear, we remain confident that Christoper Quinn and Molly Bradford were likely victims, as was their film" said Steven Rosenbaum,... (02/09/06)

IFC User-Video's - TV Week February 6, 2006 IFC Banking on User-Made Films Net Solicits Shorts to Offer for Download; Will Televise the Top Submissions By Jon Lafayette In a move designed to provide both programming and promotion, Independent Film Channel is soliciting short films from viewers. Story continues below... IFC is commercial-free, but its project, called the Media Lab, is the latest... (02/06/06)

Feb6th - Hi there. Welcome. The worlds of fact and fiction were in stark contrast this week. Maybe its just me... but i find myself thinking a lot about the word that Steven Colbert revealed a few weeks back "Truthiness". Just so you don't think this is a world that is relegated to the world of late night cable comedy... the... (02/05/06)

YouTube - the Times is puzzled (?) - Ben Ratliff in todays NY Times seems genuinly perplexed about YouTube and it's impact on the world. In today's article he writes a glowing music lovers profile of the start up video sharing service. And of course he's right. Having amazing old video like funkadelic pulled from the dust bin's of history - and brought back into public view is... (02/03/06)

Esther Dyson; on user-content - @ SIIA Info Industry Summit: Esther Dyson; on user-content (from Paidcontent.com) : Updated:Safe to say Esther Dyson spoke some truth to power about users and control, telling attendees that not all user contributions are equal and not all users deserve equal consideration. She said too many companies are rushing in, not realizing how difficult building and operating community can be.... (02/02/06)

'Flight 93' Breaks A&E Records - TV Week January 31, 2006'Flight 93' Breaks A&E RecordsBy James HibberdA&E's 9/11 movie "Flight 93" broke network ratings records Sunday night to become the most-watched program in the channel's history. According to Nielsen Media Research, the movie was seen by 5.9 million viewers (2.7 million, adults 18 to 49). The previous record-holder was 2004's "Ike Countdown to D-Day" starring Tom... (02/01/06)

User-Generated Content Is A Viable Ad Medium - From Cory Treffiletti.... User Generated User-Generated Content Is A Viable Ad Medium IN MY 2006 PREDICTIONS I mentioned that this year we'd see an increase in the usefulness and quality of user-generated content (UGC). I want to take this week's column to explain a little about what's going on in this category and why I'm so focused on it right... (02/01/06)

Burnett, AOL Ink Deal for Gold Rush Series - Burnett, AOL Ink Deal for Gold Rush Series Mike Shields JANUARY 30, 2006 - Uber-reality-producer Mark Burnett has signed a deal with AOL to produce an online series that will send viewers on a real life treasure hunt in search of caches of actual gold hidden in various locations throughout the United States. Details are still emerging on Gold Rush,... (01/31/06)

MagnifyTV episode#1 - Click to View Video Lots to report in the world of user-generated content and the evolution of film. This is Magnify.TV, a 'cast focused on media, film, video - and the internets significant impact on video content. First - a big contractualation to Christopher Quinn who's remarkable film God Grew Tired of Us won both the Audience Award and... (01/29/06)

Extrordinary Tale - in more ways that one... - PARK CITY '06: "Quinceanera" and "God Grew Tired of Us" Each Win Jury & Audience Prizes at Sundance '06; "Iraq in Fragments" Gets 3 Awards Two new American independent films swept both jury and audience awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival this year, a first in the history of this twenty-two year-old festival recognized as the most important in... (01/29/06)

User-Generated Content honors 9/11 - Over the past few weeks, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has invited average people to submitt thier stories about 9/11. At a time when so many people seem to be focusing on the site of the attacks, and the builds that will rise there - this invitation is interesting on a number of levels. First of all - the... (01/26/06)

As Gadgets Get It Together, Media Makers Fall Behind - AMID the cacophony of the sprawling Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, the main action had little to do with electronics. Sure, booth after booth claimed to have the biggest TV screen, the smallest music player and the niftiest wireless gizmo. But that was to be expected. The real news was neither shiny nor tiny. The question... (01/25/06)

WB, UPN Fold Shocks NATPE in Vegas - WB, UPN Fold Shocks NATPE in Vegas By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/24/2006 8:00:00 PM The surprise decision to fold netlets The WB and UPN and create a new network could open up some real estate for syndicated programmers. That was the buzz from the syndication community in Las Vegas for the NATPE programming convention. The merged entity... (01/25/06)

Bill Maher Tapes First Amazon Talk Show - Bill Maher Tapes First Amazon Talk Show The first official Internet talk show was taped on Sunday night, right here in Park City, Utah. “Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher” is sponsored by United Parcel Service and was recorded in front of a live audience composed of invited guests at the Sundance Film Festival. The guests on the first episode were... (01/24/06)

Stranger Coughs Up $25,000 at Screening - Stranger Coughs Up $25,000 at Screening (By Roger Friedman: Fox News, Tuesday, January 24, 2006) OK, the documentary “God Grew Tired of Us” has been turning even the most stone-faced screening audiences into Weeping Willies. But last night, after what seemed like a charged show, a total stranger opened his checkbook and wrote out a $25,000 check to the foundation... (01/24/06)

Networks fold, consolidate - This is a big story. And more than a consolidation. The words "unprofitable" and "network" have harldy been seen in print before. Lots more as we all think about what this really means. Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. agreed to combine the unprofitable UPN and WB television networks, seeking to create a stronger competitor to... (01/24/06)

Mobile TV on the rise - Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Texas Instruments, and Modeo line up behind DVB-H standard. January 23, 2006 Tech giants Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Texas Instruments, and Modeo formed an organization on Monday to promote a standard for broadcasting digital TV on mobile devices. The industry leaders are getting behind the DVB-H (digital video broadcasting―handheld) standard, an alternative to Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology, and setting... (01/24/06)

Future of Internet TV Is Coming Into View - Future of Internet TV Is Coming Into View By Leslie Walker Thursday, January 12, 2006; Page D01 I was trying to sleep on a flight home from Las Vegas Sunday when the craving hit: I want my Internet TV. After catching a virus at the gadget show I'd attended, I felt too exhausted to read. I needed distraction, a slice... (01/24/06)

- Did you think MySpace () could blow up this big, this fast without anyone else noticing? Time Warner's () AOL is readying its bid for the MySpace.com, um, space. It won't be a site per se. Rather, the online giant is building a platform off its massively popular AOL Instant Messenger service to better enable its users to share and create content. That the internal shorthand for the project is "AIMspace" -- don't count on that being its real name -- testifies to how tightly the company plans to tie it to AIM, which the company says has 43 million users. (What is an IMer's "buddy list" if not a social network?) (01/22/06)

Yahoo developing The Runner - reality blurred Yahoo developing ABC's abandoned The Runner with LivePlanet and Mark Burnett The Runner, a show concept that never got off the ground at ABC back in 2001, has found new life and new producers. Originally pitched more than five years ago to ABC by LivePlanet—Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s company and the producers of Project Greenlight—the show is... (01/22/06)

When will a home media server come home? - I spent some time in San Francisco with Alex Rowland, who's very cool service Cozmo.tv is now in closed beta. Along the way - the conversation turned to the home media servers and the inevitability of the device. We morned the frustrations of Tivo not having more traction... and of Apple's endless almost arrival in the business. Then the conversation... (01/22/06)

John Kerry Really Pissed Me Off Today. - I know that sounds a bit extreme, but when I tell you the circumstances, I'm guessing you'll be pissed-off as well. Back last September I showed a rough cut of my film “Inside The Bubble” in New York. A clip from the film made it on the internet and Washington went a bit nuts about the film and the impact... (01/21/06)

Online video face-off: Apple versus Google - Interesting review in the monday edition of the San Francisco Examiner. It's not a techy view, but rather a consumer view - and the differences in the consumer reaction are worth reading. While google video 1.0 is a product evolving for sure, you can see how the DRM question looms large in the deskbound vs. portable world. REVIEW Online video... (01/21/06)

Carville's Back! (and Begala too) - On my way to the airplane... i the book "Take It Back" jumped off the shelf. I wasn't so sure, with James Carville and Paul Begala on the cover, i was afraid it might be too heavy for airplane reading. This book was a first - a Political Page Turner! Truly. As self appointed leaders of the loyal opposition... (01/21/06)

Google buys dMark - Why? - Ok - so you heard it hear first. It's an interesting play - but not in my estimation because of radio. Sure radio is in need of a marketplace, but there's no feedback mechanism (click through) to make it trackable or part of the future media stuff that Google does so well. However - play along at home - where... (01/19/06)

So Blue... - Ok, the truth is - i don't know why i wanted to take Jet Blue. Maybe it's that i've flown it alot lately, maybe it's that i like the TV's. Maybe it's the almonds. Not sure. But i didn't. I few to San Francisco on American Airlines. It was Sunday - and i did my part, showing up at the... (01/13/06)

WSJ Features "Magnify" content - WSJ Features "Magnify" content Outside The Box / Peter Grant Peter Grant in the January 10th edition of the Wall Street Journal took a long look at the content creation engines at work outside the cable box. "The Growing Appeal of video on demand and Internet-based video content may be sending shudders though the television industry...that possibility is getting an... (01/12/06)

Kodak and Skype talk to each other - Kodak and Skype Give a New Voice to Online Storytelling with KODAK Photo Voice Kodak launches the first Skype certified online photo sharing experience, helping people talk live to friends, family and colleagues around the world while viewing a shared photo album LAS VEGAS, January 3 ― Eastman Kodak Company and Skype™, the global Internet communications company, announce the availability... (01/11/06)

CES floor tour (NATAS) - Each year Shelly Palmer guides a tour of National Academy members through the forrest of technology that is CES. It's a grueling 4 hour tromp from booth to booth...with headphones for the group so that we can listen to reps from the companies give their Shpiel and answer questions. It's the only time you get any quality attention at CES... (01/09/06)

New Camcorders Cutting The Tape - New Camcorders Cutting The Tape By David Elrich -- TWICE, 1/5/2006 LAS VEGAS— Although camcorder sales have held relatively steady over the past three years at over 5 million units, a sea change is occurring under seemingly placid waters. The format mix is undergoing a huge shift as consumers embrace DVD-based models instead of tape, no matter if it's miniDV,... (01/09/06)

2006 the 'year of content' at CES - What does it mean that 2006 is the "Year of Content" at CES? Lots of things - really. it isn't as much an arrival as a glimmer that a new distriouton sisystmeim is arriving. Video on compuert scrteens never really made sense. And the living room has always been hard to break into, owned by either a cable box or... (01/09/06)

Does TV Yahoo? Yes - Does TV Yahoo? Yes By Glen Dickson -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/6/2006 4:21:00 PM Internet portal Yahoo! has launched a new service, Yahoo! Go TV, aimed at providing television viewers with the same search capabilities and flexible access to content that Yahoo! users enjoy on the Internet. Yahoo! Go TV, formally unveiled by Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel in a speech... (01/09/06)

CES - bound - yes, it's that time of year again. Vegas - CES - and wild mix of tech, future toys, content, and connections. So, i'm off. Last year i saw the clues that were pointing toward iptv, and a number of platform developments that have become realities. So i'm excited about seeing how all the ipod video buzz will impact this years... (01/05/06)

iPod Video - So - in the fine words of Jason Calcanis - i too received a video iPod for Festivus. (and what a Joyous Festivus it was... what with travel, skis, roller-coasters, sand, and a trip to Huntington Gardens in Pasadena). But - that's all prologue. On to the video iPod. I've never owned an iPod before. I'm not a huge traveling... (01/02/06)

The Business Story of the Year. - The Business Story of the Year. From Jeff Mathews. Parnell: Yo where’s the movie playin’? Samberg: Upper West Side, dude. Parnell: Well let’s hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route. Samberg: I prefer Mapquest— Parnell: That’s a good one too. Samberg: Google Maps is the best! Parnell: True dat! Both: Double true! Samberg: 68th and Broadway— Parnell: Step... (01/02/06)

movie theatre vs. dvd - So it's Christmas eve and we've eaten the Chinese food and are on our way to the movies... don't ask it's a family tradition. anyway - we decide on King Kong. I've been afraid of this film - since i have a pretty strong anti-remake policy. (still haven't seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). But to my point. With two... (12/27/05)

The Future Arrived Last Night... - In my living room. I saw it. Rocketboom. Full Screen. On my Flatscreen TV. On my Tivo. Now, before you shrug it off. This isn't some homebrew, geek, open-source software solution that i've cobbled together with scotch tape and bailing wire (though i've done that in the past). What's so impressive - and a bit mysterious - is exactly... (12/20/05)

Munich - Last night i screened Munich at a PGA industry screening. This film is extraordinary in so many ways. It's not of this time. It's not a 'tent pole' or an 'action movie' or a 'holiday movie' or an 'issue movie' - it's simply a film. It's deeply engaging... thoughtful...disturbing...and brave. And what is clear after watching it is that the... (12/20/05)

Fair Use- a terrific resource: - Pat Aufderheide is of those people who is a fixture at every film festival and important indie film event. I'm not quite sure how she does it. But whe she told me a few months back that she was going to try to organize the best thinking about Fair Use, i knew she would make something important. Well, sure enough...... (12/15/05)

MTV no love for the Mac? - It's a weird time to be a Mac user. With all the buzz about iPod video, you almost forget that Mac's are a tiny minority of the computer world. Then there's moments like this - Makes sense, of course. Why would Microsoft DRM support a Mac application. But it reminds me of just why it is so ESSENTIAL that there... (11/15/05)

new broadband stats - From Om Malik Leichtman Research Group says that there are 40.2 million broadband connections in the US, and nearly 94% of those connections are being sold by the twenty largest cable and DSL providers. The total net adds for the 3Q 2005 were 2.6 million, with over half of that total going to DSL. Cable Companies have 23.2 million while... (11/15/05)

I want my $100 back. - Last month i paid Time Warner $100 for my cable bill (i think it was more than that). Now, don't get me wrong. I like Time Warner fine, and i even love my Road Runner service. But nonetheless, i want my $100 back. Why? Because i need to pay .99 for Lost for my wife's iPod. Because my son wants... (11/15/05)

What iPod Really Means - On sunday i went looking for the iPod video. It doesn't exist. Not at the apple store anyway. Just a brand-new iPod that plays video, music, podcasts, etc. Video isn't an 'add on' or a special model. What has been lost in all this is that from now on, all iPods will have video. period. So that means that people... (11/15/05)

UGC goes mainstream - What is UGC, and how can you make it work for you? Well, it's short for User-Generated Content - a buzz word that is quickly becoming the most important central concept for magazine publishers, TV networks, on-line communities, and digital retailers alike. Here at Magnify Media - we've been engaging first-person content creation since before it had an acronym. At... (11/13/05)

My Digital Life - saved! - I've been a member of Ofoto since 2000, and have transfered all my pictures over to the New Kodak Gallery. But like most of us whose photo collection began before digital camera's existed... we've got a huge box of family pictures. It's kind of a mess. So when i got an email that said that Kodak had set up a... (11/13/05)

Power of the people - Thanks, techcrunch (via OmMalik) interesting take on the new Amazon venture to harness, and compensate 'volunteers' for doing work that requires intelligence. === Amazon’s new Mechanical Turk product is brilliant because it will help application developers overcome certain types of problems (resulting in the possibility for new kinds of applications) and somewhat scary because I can’t get the Matrix-we-are-all-plugged-into-a-machine vision... (11/07/05)

The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed) - Interesting post from Fred Wilson at AVC I have seen the future of media and it looks like this: Mashed Up Blog Posts at tech.memeorandum Mashed Up Funny Videos at delicious Mashed Up Playlists at webjay Here is the future of media: 1 - Microchunk it - Reduce the content to its simplest form. Thanks Umair. 2 - Free it... (11/07/05)

What Does the Video iPod Mean For VOD? - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 What Does the Video iPod Mean For VOD? By Cory Treffiletti /onlineSPIN The video iPod is a MUCH bigger deal than most of us realize. The iPod is a cultural phenomenon. It's had at least as wide-reaching an impact as Napster did when it initially launched, if not more so. The iPod took the digital audio... (11/06/05)

Location One Talk - Drazen Pantic invited me to present to the folks at the Location1 space in Soho. It was a fun night, with some good Q&A after the talk, here's a link to the video posted by the folks at Location1. VIDEO STREAM Open House Wednesdays Steve Rosenbaum The open source movement moves to media October 26, 2005 Steve RosenbaumOpen House Wedn...2005... (11/05/05)

New York Tech Meet Up & PubSub - I try and make it to the New York Tech Meet Up each month, just to check on the pulse of the NYC tech community. Well if last week was any indication, the community is thriving. An overflow crowd, some great demo's, amazing new space for Seth Goldstein's new Attention Trust venture (and the actual for profit company Root Markets).... (11/05/05)

Good Night and Good Luck - There's been plenty written about this film, and it's all pretty on target. The only thing i'd add is that it is an interesting mix of history and fiction. I wonder - as a percentage - how much of the script is taken straight from testimony, news reels, and published reports. Probably i'd guess 60% of the film is history...... (11/05/05)

Night of The Producer - The Producers Guild East is really coming into it's own. Last week was the debut of what promises to be an annual event for the guild - "The Night of the Producer". With the leadership and vision of East Coast Prez David Picker - this event was envisioned as a way for producers to honor their own, in particular the... (11/05/05)

iFilm Tops 50,000 downloads - "We started showing clips from the film only ten days ago and now ‘Inside The Bubble’ is ranking as one of iFILM’s top 5 documentaries of all time" said iFilm's Vice President of Content Roger Jackson. According to iFilm, the unreleased doc has already bested OutFoxed, Enron, and Going Upriver, and continues to climb.... (10/23/05)

Why We Fight - USA, 2004, 98 minutes, English East Coast Premiere SPOTLIGHT FILM Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning... (10/23/05)

Who Gets to Call it Art? - Who Gets to Call it Art? USA, 2005, 80 minutes, English World Premiere Cast: David Hockney, Frank Stella, James Rosenquist Producer/Director: Peter RosenBR> Executive Producers: Karl Katz and Cathy Price> Co-Producer: Sara Lukinson> Editor: Jed Parker WHO GETS TO CALL IT ART? The consensus in this kaleidoscopic ride through the ragged, jagged art scene of post-war America is that the... (10/23/05)

Favela Rising - Favela Rising USA/Brazil, 2005, 78 minutes, Portugese with English subtitles Non-Premiere Director: Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary Proof again that “music hath charms to soothe the savage breast” comes from this uplifting, gritty documentary about a man and a movement that symbolize hope and possibility in the midst of poverty and despair. Set in the shantytowns that rise helter-skelter above Rio... (10/23/05)

Hamptons Film Festival - We spent the past 3 days in a whirlwind of films, panels, meals and parties that collectively are the Hamptons Film Festival. Arriving Friday, i was taken by the extrordinary spirt and energy of this 13 year old festival. A surprising humber of friends from the film world were milling about the Huntting Inn where the industry check in and... (10/23/05)

Internet Users Push 2004 Kerry Doc into Top 10 - The Film John Kerry Refuses to See, Now one of the most Downloaded Docs of all Time More than fourty five thousand people have downloaded clips from the as of yet unreleased film about John Kerry's 2004 Political Campaign. Internet movie site iFilm says this makes the Kerry doc one of the top 10 most downloaded documentaries of all times.... (10/20/05)

"Road To The White House" features the ITB - This Sunday Cspan's Chief Political Editor Steve Scully spends the better part of his hour long "Road To The White House" on a look "Inside The Bubble." It's on 6:30pm, 9:30pm, and 12:30 Sunday. The show is unusual in a number of regards. First of all - i continue to be amazed at how each viewer of the film brings... (10/15/05)

more clips on iFilm - Click here for link to ifilm clips... (10/15/05)

Shall I compare Kerry to a summer's day? - From Poetsforkerry.com they wrote us a POEM. It's so cute. "Inside the Bubble" In the morning, wiped clean of yesterday’s mud, a journalist asks John Kerry, “Will you see the instant replay?” There is a thin film all around the question, round, with a reflection of the light from a window far above. Inside, everything is upside down. Kerry’s face... (10/13/05)

IP promises video-to-go as next big media wave - IP promises video-to-go as next big media wave By Diane Mermigas CHICAGO -- While cable, satellite and telephone rivals attempt to outdo one another's bundled services and broadcast and cable networks duke it out in primetime, Internet Protocol video providers and content aggregators are about to deal them all a major competitive blow. The long-anticipated unveiling of powerful, portable IP... (10/13/05)

Requiem for a candidate - Requiem for a candidate Reliving the John Kerry campaign at the movies BY ADAM REILLY LIKABLE SUBJECT At some points, Inside the Bubble actually humanizes Kerry. Inside the Bubble, a new documentary about John Kerry’s failed 2004 presidential campaign, hasn’t hit theaters yet. In fact, it doesn’t even have a distributor. But judging from the buzz that’s developing around... (10/13/05)

Kerry won't see campaign documentary: `I know what happens' - October 11, 2005 AP, BOSTON --A new documentary about Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, warts and all, is making the rounds in New York and Washington. But its leading man has no plans to see it. Latest local news "I lived it," the Massachusetts Democrat told reporters with a laugh on Tuesday. "I think I know what happens." "Inside the... (10/11/05)

Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win - Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win By Elizabeth Gibson October 07, 2005 The problem with Democrat campaign speeches is 'litany,� and they need more narrative like Winnie the Pooh stories, political consultant and pundit James Carville said. At a speech sponsored by the Northwestern College Democrats Thursday evening, Carville told the audience that Democratic candidates can�t succeed by shouting... (10/10/05)

Air America, Newslist, more - The New "Inside The Bubble" website has been launched at www.InsideTheBubble.net In addition, a mail list has been established to respond to the many requests for information regarding distribution, dvd's, and festival opportunities for the film. http://insidethebubble.net/maillist/?p=subscribe And Air America Host David Bender, said on his program Politcally Direct - "Inside The Bubble is a film everybody should see if... (10/09/05)

More bubble stuff - I know i've been blogging on the Kerry film for a bit, and i'll get back to films and tech shortly. Want to blog about WeMedia at the Media Center conf last week (very interesting) but for now two things: www.InsideTheBubble.net (new web site for the movie). and this weekend - Air America (Sunday at 2pm) David Bender Show, also... (10/08/05)

Movie premieres - Movie premiers always draw an unusual mix of celebrities, but last Sunday may break the mold. The arrival of Soprano's super-mobster and amazing e-street band member Steve Van Zandt started the evening off with a bang. Here he is with Producer Rob Barnett before the screening. folks at the New York Television Festival found themselves putting chairs in the aisles... (10/06/05)

The Observer - review - Fly on the wall film dims last hope for Kerry Paul Harris in New York Sunday October 2, 2005 The Observer It must have seemed a good idea at the time. Allow a film-maker to document the inner workings of your presidential campaign, recording a victorious run to the White House ending in a glamorous Washington inauguration. Of course,... (10/01/05)

"Bubble" bows at NYTVF - Well, here it is. Thursday night was a sell out crowd at the New York Television Festival, and after a few opening night jitters - the film went on. The venue isn't what you would at first expect, a stark white art gallery space at Milk Studios retrofitted for film and tv programs at the first year of the... (10/01/05)

ABC's "TheNote" reviews Inside The Bubble - there's been a bunch of press, and i'll put up links at some point, but this review from the political folks at ABC caught my eye. See what you think. 2004: Kerry-Edwards, the movie: The cinematic Lloyd Grove has already called Steve Rosenbaum's new access-aided "Inside the Bubble" "a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign."... (09/29/05)

Wonkette has Kerry Video - From Wonkette SEP 20th 2005 Every Little Girl Wants a Pony You want to know why John Kerry didn't win in 2004? Listen to this rant by Kerry communications staffer Jim Loftus, caught in the upcoming documentary, "Inside the Bubble." When I was an advance guy if someone said, 'Get a pony on the 10th floor of this hotel... (09/21/05)

A Democratic Look in the Mirror - So, the word is out. We'll see what that means. Wonkettte today broke the news that after almost 18 months of soul searching, hair pulling, and long nights... the film known as "Inside The Bubble" will premier in New York on September 29th. Those of you who've followed this film know that it's been an emotional road. No one sets... (09/20/05)

9/11/01 - Gordon McCannel Aamoth, 32, New York,N.Y. Maria Rose Abad, 49, Syosset, N.Y. Edelmiro (Ed) Abad, 54, New York,N.Y. Andrew Anthony Abate, 37, Melville,N.Y. Vincent Abate, 40, New York, N.Y. Laurence Christopher Abel, 37 William F. Abrahamson, 58, CortlandManor, N.Y. Richard Anthony Aceto, 42, Wantagh,N.Y. Erica Van Acker, 62, New York, N.Y. Heinrich B. Ackermann, 38, New York,N.Y. Paul Andrew Acquaviva,... (09/11/05)

Filmmakers Discuss 9/11 - left to right: Ric Burns, Steve Rosenbaum, Danny Liener, Ken Jackson, Jim Whitaker FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Filmmaker Ric Burns, Director Danny Liener, WTC Consultant, Historians, & Archivist say 9/11 Images Must Be Protected. Public Invited to screen of never before seen 9/11 footage. Columbia University’s Lehman Center to host discussion and screening On Thursday, September 8, at 6pm, Historian... (09/08/05)

Katrina and 9/11 - (orginally posted to MORPH - the MediaCenter blog). I've been trying to find a way to reconcile 9/11 and Katrina. They are both terrible things. The parallels are hard to ignore. We had warnings about 9/11. We ignored them. We had warnings about the potential for a catastrophic failure of the levees. On Sunday, it will be the fourth anniversary... (09/07/05)

Kanye West Video - I've gotten a bunch of requests for the Kanye West video - so here's the link: WINDOWS MEDIA QUICKTIME... (09/05/05)

Katrina - Journalism & Objectivity - Lot's of anger on the air, and plenty of it coming from places you don't expect. On ABC - Chris Bury reported from a bridge on the highway for Nightline. As the day stretched on... and the heat, lack of food, and lack of information from officials continued to stretch on... Burry became angry. For him - it was... (09/04/05)

CBS's Schieffer - from "ShowMeBlog.com" http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_90405.pdf "SCHIEFFER: Finally, a personal thought. We have come through what may have been one of the worst weeks in America's history, a week in which government at every level failed the people it was created to serve. There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives of its citizens. Yet as scenes of horror that... (09/04/05)

9/11 Video - I decided to send some of the clips that we're going to be showing at Columbia next thursday to my friend Drazen Pantic who posts at http://dv.open4all.info/ these are torrents so they should be relatively easy to look at. I did leave the most graphic images off the web. I'll show them at Columbia after a pretty clear warning -... (09/03/05)

9/11 Archive - RIC BURNS, CLIFFORD CHANIN AND OTHER EXPERTS TO DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING AND PROTECTING IMAGES OF 9/11 Columbia University�s Lehman Center to host discussion and screening of never before seen 9/11 footage. On Thursday, September 8, at 6pm, Historian Kenneth T. Jackson, will invite New Yorkers to explore the need to gather, collect and archive the invaluable images of... (09/01/05)