January 2008
52 posts
New Rocketboom Blog on Tumblr
http://rocketboom.tumblr.com
December 2007
42 posts
I'm Loving Tumblr
“Just wanted to say how much I’m loving Tumblr and tumbling. I think I’ve got it pretty dialed in as for what feeds I’m bringing in. Now just to find more tumblelogs to follow. Thanks to those who follow me. Keep on tumblin’.” — clintus This was reblogged via Tumblr. I just hit one button and entered in this extra text to accompany the shared remark above from...
Misunderstanding the Value in Online Video
The issue on Perez Hilton: Perez only made $5000 from 25 Million video views. People are saying that’s not good. But um, guys? He also used it to leverage his career and now is worth way more than most people make. He also made $5000 as opposed to spent it, like most other startups do. Not a huge investment to get $5000 cash for free video hosting. Oh yes and lets not forget that...
The Guardian: Strike hiatus prompts Hollywod... →
YouTube Announces Top Videos of 2007
SAN BRUNO, CA—(Marketwire - December 27, 2007) - YouTube, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos, today announced the 2007 YouTube Year End Video Roundup. Every day hundreds of millions of videos are viewed on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded. Through a formula that includes view counts, most...
“Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows online, 36 percent...”
– More Americans Creating Content Online
Next President of U.S. TBD Next Week?
For any pollsters out there, let the politick begin. It’s just a week away from the first primaries for the next President of the United States. Up until now, all polls have been nonsense compared to the final poll, the pull of the people of Iowa which have had a tradition of determining the election. Whoever wins this first state, emerges into the next state with the best position in the...
Why Twitter? 10 Reasons
If don’t you use Twitter, this post by Dan York really articulates why it’s so awesome. If you do *use* it, you probably came across all ten uses at one point or another, just by staying plugged in.
Pitfalls of Flash Advertising
Andy Plesser over at Beet.TV posted a short interview with me on the need for other kinds of scalable advertising methods beyond Flash insertion. Plesser has been on the move, churning out some really great content this year, interviewing people in the 2.0 space in a way which cuts right to the chase. In my opinion, Andy shines by knowing the space himself and thus asking exactly the right...
First NFL Game on Three TV Networks at Once
I found out today via Shelly Palmer that an upcoming Football game will be broadcast on three networks all at the same time: The NFL Network (which is where the game had been destined to air exclusively until now), as well as NBC and CBS. The first Super Bowl is the only case to date in NFL history where a game was simulcasted. According to Adweek, the NFL network usually charges around...
1957 First Televised Christmas Address: Queen...
Dembot Archives at Dembot.NET
All this season greeting stuff is giving me time to do some spring cleaning. Now all of my pre-tumblr posts are back up at http://www.dembot.net. Here is a fave: Steve Jobs at MacWorld 2005 introducing Video Podcasts (second use of Rocketboom by Jobs).
Flickr
Ive been out of Flickr photo space for a couple of months with that big “Pro Account needed” message on my login. Every photo I added cycled out an older one to make room for the limitation on my account. So today, I broke down and paid the $24.95 per year to get all the photos back up and to keep the whole thing rolling. This is quite a testament to Flickr, which I really do love. I...
Studies in Demographics
Googling for Your Grade
Congrats to Jamie (Rocketboom Tech Dev) for this awesome write-up in Time. Jamie teaches a class at Parsons (where I used to teach) called Internet Famous. Students are graded based on their ability to rack up hits across a bunch of sites like YouTube, Digg, Compete, etc. Over this past semester, we have gotten alot of fun ideas for Rocketboom from the class blog.
8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die
Recently, I have met with many people including top executives from most of the largest studios as well as people from some of the top internet companies that are building studios, top investors in the VC world that are turning towards the studio business and my goodness, my perception of the industry has really changed. I have met with plenty of people over the years but the discussion was...
911: Twitter is Not Dangerous
This is a really funny article. The claim is that Twitter is dangerous because people at work could accidentally reveal internal trade secrets by using it. This kind of argument happens alot but the construction involves a logical fallacy called Ad Hominem. This happened when the writer Michael Krinsman attempted to discredit Twitter by drawing attention to the characteristics of the people who...
Ad:tech Awards
I’ll be one of the judges the 2008 Ad:Tech Awards: ad:tech 11th Annual Awards - Interactive Marketing Awards
Denied by Forbes
Forbes: “Rocketboom, an irreverent daily video blog that ran from October 2004 to June 2006. ” -Link.
Holiday Production Mandate for Online Content...
I got an email from Xeni over at BoingBoing the other day inquiring about holiday expectations for Podcasters. Luckily, there are no expectations for Podcasters so this applies to the holidays as well. ;)
Though I would recommend to all indi content creators, if you can keep it going, do it. While the rest of the world is winding down for the holidays, activity goes way up for online viewing.
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Revision3 aquired by C-Net?
Is it possible that I have found a breaking story that has not yet surfaced? There is no other mention anywhere online. Not even Techcrunch or Newteevee mention anything.
” just-announced acquisition of Revision 3 (which includes Patrick Norton from Tekzilla, Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht from Diggnation, and other shows like The Totally Rad Show)”.
Link.
Hmmm, very interesting...
John Edwards answers 10Questions!
Here is the question by Joe Niederberger on Net Neutrality:
Here is the Answer by John Edwards:
Here is the answer by Mike Huckabee:
Check out the others at 10Questions and **vote**! I was a part of this project via Rocketboom and think it’s an important step in the dmocratic process.
w00t wins word of year! →
How to kick-start TV over IP
The WSJ article The Internet. The TV., feels right-on. Why aren’t consumers buying into the porting of the internet onto their TVs? Because it’s not simple and it doesn’t look right. Who can make it simple and look right? Apple.
Lets look back to see ahead.
The implications of podcasting are AWESOME. Didn’t you think that the first time you became aware of it? The...
Video Events This Week in NYC
The Web Video Summit is this week and on Monday Ill be speaking from from 5:30pm - 7pm on the following panel (I think its open to the public):
MODERATOR: David Hinckley , Critic: Television & At Large , NY Daily News
PANELISTS: Andrew Baron, Founder, Rocketboom
PANELIST: Bendrix, Digital Media Strategist, JWT and Codedsignal Inc.
PANELIST: Brian Conley, Founder, Alive in Baghdad...
Accurate Facebook Mini-Feed
This is a simulation of a future Facebook feed for a very popular person:
The Programmer Dress Code
1. grow a beard, 2. have long hair, and 3. dress like a slob.
Bjarne Stroustrup - Brought us C++
Richard Stallman - Founder of GNU
Yukihiro Matsumoto - Built Ruby.
Many More.
Writer for Colbert Report Frank Lesser
*note this is not a part of the above post.
Go Speed! First Movie Pics
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A Flop? Must Read Story on the numbers of...
This story was under-seen but its a big one:
Newteevee rounded up the public figures for Quarterlife and its not looking very good. I have heard accounts that they spend between $300k and $400k per episode. The Quarterlife business may have made it out of the red with a recent TV distribution deal, but the content does not seem to be striking a chord.
Here are the view counts. They are very...
TeXtra’s Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET...
Congrats to Natali Del Conte for making a move from Podshow to CNET TV and moving to New York.
Sarah is a big fan of Natali and introduced me to her show a few months ago - I met Natali a few weeks ago on a Cranky Geeks show.
This is simultaneously bad news for Podshow because it’s a big loss. Techcrunch is reporting that they may be out of money as well. This comes from rumors in the...
Emergency Broadcast Singing
Emergency Broadcast Test Music (more).
Facebook Headlines: Loss, Lied, Unfixable, Evil
Take a look at these headlines today on Sunday: “Well Deserved Court Loss”, “Zuckerberg Lied to Us”, “Beacon is Unfixable”, “More Evil Than Evil”.
Boomtown warns of more to come.
Think Microsoft.
Need a Header
Anyone have any good ideas for a Dembot Headder/logo?
Michal Tatarkiewicz's Subway Drawings