September 2008
7 posts
Future Appears Bright for Online Content Despite...
A few people have emailed me to ask what I thought about the effect the economy would have on the online video industry. I’m not really sure, but I feel optimistic for several reasons:
The bigger industry that is spilling into the web is already in flux. Their main concerns are the spending budgets of big advertisers - the mainstay bread and butter like Coke and Ford - and reducing their...
Is Google Search Thinning?
There is a discussion of Google going on with Tim O’Reilly and Read Write Web regarding the well being of Google. Read Write Web proposed the idea that Google was flailing and spreading itself too thin, but O’Reilly dismissed the notion suggesting Google is healthy.
Funny enough, an idea hit pretty hard the other day when I was looking at my friendfeed sidebar I have here on my blog...
One Web Day - Do Something!
Today for One Web Day I was encouraging people to do something valuable with their time to help keep the internet free. I wasn’t demanding it, I was just trying to inspire people to appreciate what we have and help to protect it. Jonathan Zittrain is a lawyer who has done some wonderful things in the past except for today when he decided to refute my entire presentation and then diverted the...
End of an Era for the Sitcom
The observer is running a very interesting article on some of the effects of the changing TV climate. Content-wise, just based on numbers, it appears that sitcoms are all but extinct: “At one point in the 1990s, NBC had 16 half-hour sitcoms on the air. This fall, it has four. And two of those four—The Office and 30 Rock—though critically beloved (both are up for Best Comedy...
The Vlog is Dead
We removed /vlog from the url structure of the Rocketboom website. It used to be rocketboom.com/vlog but no more. The word “vlog” is dead for many reasons. It’s a terrible name for one. Too, it’s come to mean “the other” or “the alien” category that people want to avoid because it doesn’t fit into the “entertainment” category or the...
Headlines on Microsoft's Bill Gates & Jerry...
Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld ad airs - Apple has nothing to worry about Seinfeld’s First Microsoft Commercial: Not Funny New Vista advertisement debuts and flops New Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Runs, Is About Nothing Can anyone explain the 1st Bill Gates- Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Commercial? Who are the Ad Wizards Who Came Up With This One? The Easiest 10 Million Bucks Ever Made Was this ad supposed...
Not Web TV Must Be Unique
Brian Stelter, a writer of online video for the NYTimes, has done it again with an article that makes me wonder if he’s stuck with a miserable job that he hates. For Web TV, a Handful of Hits but No Formula for Success.
In his article today, he focuses on scripted series for the web and makes it seem like everyone is standing around scratching their heads trying to figure out what the...