This the video promo for Moby’s new album.
Amazing! It’s laid back, simple, and charming. Certainly not something a big record company would do. The changes in media are really opening up the landscape. I hope to see lots of other artists doing their own thing like this!
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CAT won a contest on the revision3 website and we were able to attend the recording of diggnation episode #207 at the MSNBC.com digital cafe in Rockefeller Center. Rachel Maddow was a guest on the show and she made us cocktails!
We had a great time! Check out all the pix I uploaded to flickr.
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CAT and I had a great time at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. One of the panels we went to was called Soapbox Spielberg where the panelists created special effects live during the hour.
CAT and I had the chance to participate as volunteers. Erik Beck of IndyMogul directed us in one of the demonstrations – a short video about a man, a woman, and a cleaver. Check it out!
There’s a complete writeup of the Soapbox Spielberg session over at NewTeeVee.
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With only two more episodes to go, Dave Winer posted his theory about how Battlestar Galactica will end. I think he’s got it wrong. I’ve had a different theory for several weeks now so I’m going to sandblast it into the internet right here so I can get the prestige if I’m right! (If I’m wrong, everyone just move along. Nothing to see here…)
The Galactica has one jump left and they all somehow go through a time warp. They end up back on Earth many thousands of years ago, long before the atomic war and either become the first humans or mix in with them. All except Starbuck who only goes back part of the way and crashes her viper on Earth and dies.
It turns out that Earth wasn’t the 13th colony it was the FIRST and some time before the atomic war on Earth ships leave to form the twelve colonies.
Everyone on Glactica throughout the series was actually part Cylon because of their distant past on Earth. That’s why Baltar could see Six in his mind without actually being a Cylon.
Why do I think this?
“All this has happened before. All this will happen again.” – Pythia
…or to be more old school about it,
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens…
..or not… Who the heck knows with this show?
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“Podcasting” is one of the Oxford English Dictionary’s new words for December 2008. It looks like this is relatively soon for a new word to be entered since one of the other words for December is Rashomon, which has been around since 1951.
The first reference to the word podcast is possibly this post to the Yahoo group ipodder-dev from September 2004. That’s just a bit over four years from made-up-word to “near-ubiquity in 2008.” The power of the internet is on display.
The only thing that disappoints me is that the new podcasting entry only mentions audio. Can a video podcaster get a little love? I guess the video podcasters will just have to wait for a future dictionary update to go main-stream.
I came across this information on Twitter from @GrammarGirl and @MWGblog. Ain’t Twitter great? It seems these days that everything you hear, you hear first on Twitter. Maybe Twitter will be in the dictionary some day. I just hope they don’t call an individual message a “tweet.”
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Choose your own adventure! Chad, Matt and Rob are chased around the office and into a garbage can. Should you get in?
I’ve only watched a few episodes so far. I’m not sure how interesting this particular story is going to be but, wow, imagine the educational possibilities.
Years ago I worked on a series of choose your adventure type educational videos for kids. They were supposed be on laser disc so you could make decisions with the remote but they ended up non-interactive on VHS. Schools just didn’t have the equipment to play laser discs. Easy access to YouTube makes this kind of thing much more viable.
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It’s been two weeks since YouTube went widescreen. In my travels around the “internets” I’ve come across quite a few embedded YouTube videos that use the new 16×9 player. I didn’t expect to see so many so soon. It’s quite refreshing. I’m surprised at how much of a difference it seems to make. The new player gives a refined first impression I guess, so you start off the video on a positive note rather than, “Hey look, another YouTube video. I wonder if it’s crap.”
It’s good to see YouTube finally modernizing their player and their site. I’ve heard that stereo audio and real HD resolutions are coming but I haven’t confirmed it. Can’t seem to find the recommended video specs in the YouTube help pages either. I know I’ve seen this page before and I’m sure the specs have changed with the new player. Anybody know what the new specs are?
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I came across this cartoon the other day.
It’s called “Word of Mouth” but I think what it really illustrates is that impressions that are closer to you are more valuable than others. It speaks to Old Media v. New Media – Traditional Advertising v. Social Networking. The friend isn’t even promoting her drink, she’s just sitting there, yet that influence is more powerful than all the overwhelmingly powerful noise of traditional advertising.
This is the power of Social Media. A video podcast (for example) that has a regular community surrounding it creates a small family. The number of viewers is perhaps smaller but the impressions are much more effective and valuable. I think this needs to be taken into consideration when setting a price for ads or product placement.
Yea, I know, many advertisers and agencies don’t get it. That’s the mantra. But you know what? I think many of them do. They sit around and think about this stuff all day just like we do. I think some of them want to feign ignorance so they can get something valuable for free. Don’t fall for it. A simple mention in the right video podcast is much more valuable than a magazine ad or a banner on a website.
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So a few weeks ago I upgraded Wordpress on this blog and got locked out of the dashboard! It just wouldn’t let me log in. Then CAT upgraded another Wordpress blog we use as a test site and the same thing happened. BOGUS! Anyway, CAT did some research and was able to find a fix today, so now I’m able to post again. YEA! New posts with great wit and insight soon to come…
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For those that don’t know Tom Green has been doing a talk show called Tom Green’s House Tonight from his living room for about two years. New Tee Vee went to his house for a behind the scenes video tour.
Tom’s quite a pioneer. What he does on his show is amazing. The surrealism of a TV talk show in his living room fits right in with his “meta” comedy.
Here’s another tour of Tom Green’s house where we get to see all his plants and what’s on the roof:
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I produce a web series called Let's Knit2gether
