Archive for November 1st, 2006
Our panel on sites and practices that “do it right” went very well, I have to say. And I think that’s because we didn’t do it as a “panel” at all. We kept the whole thing interactive - none of that “hold your questions until the end” nonsense. That’s no way to hold a conversation. Warley and I probably asked the audience more questions than they asked us. Good. I like learning from the audience. “Anyone know any better sites? What do you like? What do you hate? Share!” Anyway, I am headed to the dreaded redeye flight back to Boston, but Streaming Media West continues through Thursday. I have found the discussions here engaging and thought-provoking, and I invite the LR Faithful to keep checking in with their video webcast. Safran out.
November 1st, 2006
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TVWorldwide.com is streaming its video coverage of Streaming Media West. You can watch the panels for free. Your LR correspondents are on a couple of ‘em this afternoon & evening so feel free to watch and mock: 6pm EST/3pm PST: The Business of Online Video Advertising (I’m part of that panel); 7:15pm EST/4:15pm PST: Streaming Sites that Do it Right (Me and Warley, talking about sites and companies that have terrific tools for empowering their audiences and what the business models are.)
November 1st, 2006
An observation: there are an awful lot of presenters here talking about “taking back control” of content. Hogwash. It’s silly to think that the video of yours that wound up on YouTube somehow cannibalized from your site. It didn’t. It added to your reputation and will have a great long-term effect on your relationship with your audience. You can’t take back control, and even if you could - you shouldn’t. Empower your biggest supporters to scream your content at the top of their lungs. Give them great tools to do it. Imagine if the web didn’t exist, and someone came to your marketing department and said “You know those crappy promos we run that nobody watches? I’m going to come up with a system that lets people pick our absolutely best clips and share them with all their friends. And the best part? They do all the work and it doesn’t cost us a thing!” Don’t you think that would get approval immediately?
November 1st, 2006
What is the most popular answer to questions about the future of the web and, particularly, its economics? “I don’t know.” We’re hearing a lot of that here. It’s not especially comforting. And I’m fine with that, because comfort is the enemy of change. There are lots of panels examining the right problems, which is a start. Still, Steve Bryant of the Hollywood Reporter’s ReelPopBlog is wondering when the answers will come. From Bryant’s ReelPopBlog: Reporting on the Streaming Media West conference is like being embedded with the 101st Greek chorus division, which only repeats one phrase: “I don’t know.”
November 1st, 2006
Since 2001, I have had my own metric of the state of web economics: The LR Swag Economic Indicator. (The LRSEI! Rhymes with “Her Cry!” Sort of!) And, for the first time in years, I am proud to report an uptick in the LRSEI. The swag giveaways are back, and they ain’t bad. Jose Castillo over at thinkJOSE points out the best giveaway - the aerospin yo-yo. From thinkJOSE: If you had any doubt about streaming media being the hot topic in the industry again we got a very clear sign from Dan Rayburn in his introduction for the nbbc Keynote this morning. “I haven’t seen a giveaway on the show floor over 10 cents in the last few years,” Dan said. “But this yo-yo proves we are back in the hot spot.” (No, we don’t take swag here. But it’s fun to report on it.)
November 1st, 2006
Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser videoblogs an excellent interview with web guru Robert Scoble, who holds court in this video about wikis and what’s next for his own show and blog.
November 1st, 2006
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Finally a straight answer involving Friday’s purge of Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips from YouTube. The NY Post reports that Comedy Central asked that longer clips be pulled. Jeff from Idealog.us built a script to roughly analyze how many clips were yanked from YouTube, and he found that approximately 46 percent of Daily Show clips, 35 percent of Colbert Report clips and 23 percent of South Park clips are missing after the purge. And he found that both long and short clips were removed. “Take downs seemed indiscriminate,” he says. So perhaps the mystery isn’t entirely solved.
November 1st, 2006
CNN.com has added a “Citizen Caucus” feature to its “America Votes 2006” section where uses can gauge their own political platforms and discuss them with others. And a new section in CNN Exchange encourages users to send in comments, photos, video and editorial cartoons related to the midterm election. Press release…
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PaidContent scoops that the New York Times Company is putting up nearly half of the amount of first round investment for Daylife, arguably the most hyped citizen journalism startup ever. You may remember that Jeff Jarvis has spoken vaguely of his participation in the startup, and Craig Newmark (Craigslist) is an investor along with Dave Winer, Mike Arrington and many more. In a nutshell, Daylife is a citizen journalism site that organizes content by relevancy, distributes it and shares revenue with contributors. PaidContent has a few more details, but not many, as it’s still very hush hush. Daylife is slated for an internal, soft launch on Monday.
November 1st, 2006
