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Creating Video for the Web – Examples, Strategies, and Pitfalls

March 12, 2010

I come from a tradition where creating video requires expertise.  The web has changed that, both for traditional media and emerging, evolving media.  Now that we’re all brands and we are all the media, McLuhan’s “the medium is the message” rings true more than ever before. In simpler times, when web video pioneers like Casey [...]

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Embedded With the Candidates, NBC News Videoblogging the Campaign

June 25, 2007

video blogging tools of the trade So is this your idea of fun? Are you a political junkie? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you work well with liltte or no sleep? If the answer to ALL of these questions is “yes”, I suggest you look into a once-in-a-lifetime (or once every four years at [...]

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Old Media, Empower Employees To Be Brand Champions!

May 14, 2007

How will big news media reach out to fragmented audiences in a networked world of infinite choice? How does network TV news reclaim audiences that have given up on the evening news all together? How will my employer connect deeply with people who have lost their faith in traditional media? How about this: empower your [...]

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Scorched Earth Screeds on Citizen vs. Professional Media

May 1, 2007

Can’t we all just get along? As two of my favorite foils, Michael Rosenblum and Jeff Jarvis were storming the gates of traditional TV at the NAB conference in Vegas, many of the journalists who actually do the “boots on the ground” work of TV news were in Blacksburg, VA, covering the worst single shooting [...]

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The Live Video Revolution

April 26, 2007

As the largest collection of live trucks my colleagues and I had ever witnessed beamed images of the horrifying massacre at Virginia Tech, a live TV revolution was quietly happening on the internet. Prompted by “always on” Justin.tv, suddednly everyone’s video had to be live. Tech evangelist Chris Pirillo was live streaming on Ustream, when [...]

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Jamal Albarghouti Spotlights the Role of Citizen Journalists in VA Tech Massacre

April 19, 2007

On Monday, April 16th, Jamal Albarghouti made a consciously editorial decision that the chaos happening – right there – all around him on the Virginia Tech campus, was something that he should record on his video enabled camera. To fight the wise instinct to protect ones life – to set that aside and decide to [...]

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Decompressing From the Virginia Tech Shootings

April 17, 2007

As I come down from the contact high of adrenaline brought about by deadlines on top of dealines, exposure to screaming producers, competing with ourselves and others, the constant din of satellite truck generators, running from this breaking event to that… I’m now able to come up for air. Before I type another word, (i [...]

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