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CBS Finds Value In Niche Market Media

May 22, 2007

Wallstrip, the online financial news show where “stock culture meets pop culture”, has been purchased by CBS Interactive for a price tag reported to be far less than the rumored $5 million price tag. Wallstrip announced the news on their show in typically tongue in cheek fashion, asking CBS employees about the deal on the [...]

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The False Choice of New Media OR Old Media

May 7, 2007

How about just calling it MEDIA? Sure, labels are useful, but at the end of the day there will be media that people connect with, and the unwatched, unread remains. There seems to be a renewed slugfest between the “revolutionaries” storming the gates of traditional media, and the keepers of corporate status quo. As both [...]

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Social Media Rock Stars and the Emergence of the “Micro Media Mogul”

April 6, 2007

Earlier today I posted an entry about journalists and self promotion that spoke of the notion of promotion being part of journalists new duties. Old media companies, new media upstarts, journalists, in fact anyone looking to be successful in social media, promotion, conversation and engadgement, need to look at the accomplishments of Zadi Diaz and [...]

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Industry upstart Blip.TV plans bold move from video to “pure text experience”

April 1, 2007

Always ahead of the curve, video hosting mavericks Blip.tv announced today plans to migrate from video hosting to an ASCII art delivery system. From their blog: Blip will accept uploads of legacy video formats such as QuickTime and Flash, and will transcode them into ASCII for display. Within several weeks, other video formats are expected [...]

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Turner’s David Eckoff sees/seeks opportunity in low-cost video content.

March 29, 2007

For a big media executive, Turner’s Vice President of New Products, David Eckoff, who I met at last weeks VON07 conference, is a disarmingly approachable guy. In fact, beyond approachable, he seemed just as excited to meet independent content creators as they were to meet him. He describes his interest in this space in the [...]

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VON07 wrap-up VIDEO

March 26, 2007

This is by no means the whole sum of VON07. This is just what resonated with me and was able to distill into the “lingua franca” of video. I was deeply inspired by the incredible people working in this space. I know I’ve left out many of the big ideas that were discussed out there. [...]

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VON07 wrap-up

March 23, 2007

The blogger is ingesting a stack of tapes. I went around on the final day of Video on the Net discussing “big” ideas with people on camera. VON07 was a very valuable experience for me. The discussions here will have huge impact on shaping the future of the industry. This is a very exiting time [...]

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