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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 following [...]

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