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09 Jul 09

Re: Evolving formats ... "For the web in general, you need a voice."

The show’s evolution shows the limits of borrowing from an established model when building something new. Just as early TV had to evolve its own formats and get past just being radio-plus-pictures, newspaper online video is evolving beyond the metaphors television has handed it.

“From a newscast, it got a lot more bloggy, which I like and have more fun doing — and I think it works better,” Donohue told me. “What we wanted to do was just go back to doing a video show the way reporters talk to each other. It’s more conversational. It’s snarkier. It’s a lot more fun. What you need for video to work on the web is more of a voice. For the web in general, you need a voice.”
Like most blogs, Ledger Live depends on viral marketing and social media. All of the newspaper’s videos are crossposted on its YouTube and Blip.tv channels, where view counts are often low, but the chances of an occasional video going viral are higher.

08 May 09

one person has carefully compiled a list of the 99 videos he thinks you need for a basic education (as he puts it, "unless you're a loser or old or something"): www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com.
the Internet Meme Timeline, which puts the world of viral Web stuff into a historical perspective.

26 Feb 09

A way to set up a free, private site for student videos?

there’s something to be said for keeping it simple, and Fliggo requires very little effort to create a site that looks much nicer than those from competitors, even if it doesn’t have quite as many options.
Like many video platforms, Fliggo started its life as a video-sharing site.

12 Feb 09

22 Jan 09

A fun way to explain copyright and fair use.

12 Nov 08

“Any idiot can do this, making TV is not hard, it's not complicated, it's not difficult. The technology makes it incredibly simple.”
And he said print publications “must have video” on their websites or else go out of business.
“If you only have print or stills and your competitor has video your going to get eaten.”
2 more annotations...
- He said print journalists were danger of becoming as obselete as the New England whalers of the 19th century.
- “You are not in the newspaper business...When new technology like the internet comes along you can hide from it or you can embrace it.”
  He said: “Like the oilmen of New England you are already in the business but you have to remember the business you are in.

22 Oct 08

Check out Utterz for quickie podcasting, and get a Flip video camera!

Now where do you house all that content? That goes back to your target audience. Are they on Facebook? Build a page. But until Friendfeed becomes the number one content aggragating platform, we have a feeling it’s going to be on *ahem* a blog.
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- This morning, WIRED jumped on the “blogging is dead” bandwagon. Ironically, they wrote the article, well, in a blog post.
- Flip Camera
  Flip video has become a mainstay in PR and marketing because it’s simple to use. Shoot shorter interviews and upload to YouTube in one step!
- Utterz
  Utterz is to podcasting what Twitter is to blogging. Phone in thoughts while driving in to the office, or conduct a quick interview on the showroom floor–it’s that simple!
- Seesmic
  Film a quick video blog post once a week to discuss industry news